Advisory Board Member

Vanessa Gorman is a filmmaker and writer. Across a twenty year period she has worked as a producer, director and writer on documentaries and documentary based television.
In 2001 her award winning documentary LOSING LAYLA, screened in Australia and went on to screen around the world including on the HBO Network in the USA. It was an intensely personal video diary about the death of her baby daughter and the journey of grief in the months following.
Vanessa is also a writer. Her first book LAYLA'S STORY, a memoir of sex, love, loss and longing was published by Penguin in September 2005.
Vanessa lives on the North Coast of NSW, Australia with her partner and two children.