Director: Natalie van den Dungen
Natalie was born in Melbourne. After moving to Sydney in 2001, she volunteered at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School for two years and was then employed as the in-house camera operator for MTV. In 2002, she returned to Melbourne and worked as a camera assistant on several large-scale drama productions until 2007. Coupling her love of music and film she has since become a full-time freelance director of music videos, live DVD's and music related documentaries. Natalie’s first foray into music video making won her 'Best Music Video' award at The Heart of Gold Film Festival in 2007 for long time collaborator Darren Hanlon's 'Elbows'. Her music video for Dan Deacon's 'Paddling Ghost' was invited into festivals around the globe including Pictoplasma Animation Festival 2009 in Berlin and was included in Pitchfork's Top 40 videos of 2009. Her videos have frequently been 'Indie Clip of the Week' on ABC TV