Kylie regularly presents and hosts public events. Get in touch.
Fellowships, residencies, grants, and festivals (select)
Varuna Residential Fellowship (https://www NULL.booksandpublishing NULL.com NULL.au/articles/2023/09/14/237746/varuna-announces-2024-residential-fellowships/) 2024
Lighthouse Arts Residency 2022, 2023
Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Fellowship (https://www NULL.kspwriterscentre NULL.com/single-post/announcing-our-2022-fellowship-recipients), 2022
UQ Creative Writing Fellowship (https://web NULL.library NULL.uq NULL.edu NULL.au/blog/2021/01/announcing-2021-creative-writing-fellow?utm_source=social&utm_medium=bitly&utm_campaign=CWFellow2021) 2021
Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship (https://writingnsw NULL.org NULL.au/winners-of-the-2020-writing-nsw-varuna-fellowships/) 2020
Our Watch Fellowship (https://www NULL.ourwatch NULL.org NULL.au/resource/inaugural-our-watch-media-fellows-announced/) (administered by the Walkley Foundation) 2019
Toronto Biennial, 2019
IDFA DocLab: 2021, 2019, 2017, 2014
SXSW 2022: 2018, 2015
Sheffield Doc/Fest: 2022, 2015
DocEdge NZ: 2022, 2018
GOMA Brisbane, 2018
International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal, 2018
Electronic Language International Festival Brazil, 2018
Busan Global Webtoon Center South Korea, 2018
Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, 2015
Storyology, Walkley Festival, 2015
Melbourne International Writers Festival, 2015
Fiction Mailer Fellow, Norman Mailer Centre 2012
Vermont Studio Centre Writer’s Residency 2011
Norman Mailer Centre Residency 2011
Industry engagement (select)
Chief Investigator, ARC Linkage Grant (With QUT), 2022- 2025.
Storytelling and interactive consultant, Sydney University, 2022-2024.
Mentor, First Nations Immersive Storytelling Lab, (with SAFC, AFTRS Indigenous, Screen Territory), 2022.
Advisory Artform Board Member: Multi-arts Board, Create NSW 2020-2021.
Judge, Walkley Documentary Award, 2020.
Industry guest, Frame Documentary Creatives Roundtable, 2020.
Mentor, Talent Program, IDFAcademy (https://www NULL.idfa NULL.nl/en/info/idfacademy), Amsterdam, 2019, 2015.
Judge, Young Walkleys, Public Interest Award, 2019.
World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest, Assessment Panel, 2019.
Judge, Webbys Awards, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016.
Judge, ATOM Awards, 2018.
Mentor, SBS & NITV Media Mentorship program, 2017.
Jury member, World Press Photo Multimedia Contest, 2016.
Professional Memberships
Varuna Alumni Membership
ACCTA (Producing and directing)
Film Critics Association of Australia
Conference/presenter (select):
2024 Seeing Rhetoric and Visualising Ideas, Kylie Boltin, Ben Grosser and Nick Evershed. Moderated by Marni Williams. Visions Symposium: The Art, Science and Politics and Seeing, MCA Australia August 15-17,.2024.
2022
The Bigger Picture, Kylie Boltin and Kristen Dunphy with Kathryn Millard, Rose Scott Women’s Writers’ Festival, 2022.
The Digital Future of Documentaries with Loren Hammonds, Co-Head Documentary, Time Studios, NYC, Australian International Documentary Conference, 2022.
2021
Diversity and AI for good: training a computer to recognise Australian Sign language, Mozilla Festival 2021.
Truth Telling in the Interactive Arts, Australian International Documentary Conference, 2021.
Keynote and panellist, “More Cat Gifs (https://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/watch/live/?v=879500522883331&ref=watch_permalink): Making the Medium Work for You: National Writers’ Conference (https://expressmedia NULL.org NULL.au/programs/news-conference-2/), presented by Express Media for students editors, publishers and contributors across Australia.
2020
Panellist, “Let the Viewer Decide: Interactive TV,” World Congress of Science and Factual Producers.
Panellist, Electric Dreams Conference (https://electricdreamsfestival NULL.com/conference/), “Representation in the age of interactive co-creation: Ravi and Emma an Auslan Interactive” & “AI and Ethics” Adelaide Fringe.
Conference moderator, AIDC Data Journalism masterclass (https://www NULL.aidc NULL.com NULL.au/event/masters-finding-stories-in-internet-data-with-lam-thuy-vo/) : “Finding Stories in Internet Data,” with Lam Thuy Vo whose participation is supported by Google News Initiative (https://newsinitiative NULL.withgoogle NULL.com/).
2019
“The new digital storytelling,” Walkley Media Talks, State Library of NSW, 21/02/2019.
Listen to podcast (https://soundcloud NULL.com/walkleytalks/the-new-digital-storytelling)here.
Guest artist, “Digital Storytelling,” Express Media’s Tool Kits Program, 17/09/2019.
See video (https://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/watch?v=mNLk4Vj7F-c&feature=youtu NULL.be) here.
“Activism: different ways of writing social justice,” The Rose Scott Women’s Writers festival, The Women’s Club, Sydney, 14/09/2019.
“The Growing Demand for Short Online Docs,” OzDox, AFTRS, 7/05/2019. See video (https://www NULL.ozdox NULL.org/videos/the-growing-demand-for-short-online-docs/) here.
2018
Masterclass, ‘Digital Story Worlds’ at Screen Edge Forum, DocEdge NZ with the National Film Board of Canada.
Panellist, “iDocs: Industry, Practices, Collaborations and Impacts,” Monash University, School of Media, Film and Journalism.
2016
Panellist, “Producers and Teachers in conversation about SBS Australia’s The Boat,” Screen Content in Australian Education: Digital Promise and Pitfalls, Sydney.
2015
Panellist, ‘Meet the Broadcaster,’ Screen Producers Association of Australia, Melbourne, 2015.
Masterclass, ‘Choose your own adventure: Audience engagement & telling complex stories online (https://storyology15 NULL.sched NULL.com/event/4Yhp/choose-your-own-adventure-audience-engagement-telling-complex-stories-online#)‘ with Matt Huynh, Storyology, Walkleys Conference, 11/11/2015.
Panellist, ‘The Boat: 40 Years of Vietnamese Culture’, Melbourne Writers Festival.
Panellist, ‘Interactive Graphic Novel: The Boat’ Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Ubud Indonesia.
Panellist, ‘SBS in the Spotlight’ Australian International Documentary Conference, Adelaide.