Moira Fahy is an award-winning, independent film producer, director and scriptwriter. Moira has made five documentaries on the impact of natural disasters in Australia. She is the producer, writer and director of the ABC and Film Victoria documentary on the 1939 Black Friday fires which was a finalist in the 2004 AIMIA Awards, won the Victorian Fire Awareness Community Service Award for Excellence and an ATOM Award in 2004 for Best Documentary. Her Black Friday documentary was also cited in the 2004 COAG Report to the Federal Government on Bushfire Mitigation & Management as a key recommendation for the recovery of bushfire affected communities. Moira Fahy was also invited to speak at the Victorian Royal Commission into the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. In an excerpt from Professor of History, ANU, Dr Tom Griffiths’, invited evidence to the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday Bushfires, he noted that her work was: “An important example of collaborative community historical scholarship that analyses both the experience and memory of fires…” Her documentaries have been of enormous value as a cultural and historical record and as an educational resource that speaks to the real costs of natural disasters on individuals, families, communities and career and volunteer emergency services personnel. She has interviewed and worked closely with leading climate change scientists, ecologists, meteorologists and environmental and social historians across Australia over the last fifteen years and her films are used by state and federal emergency management and recovery agencies; the Red Cross, local councils and the academic and education sector for the valuable role they play in disaster education, recovery and mitigation.