From the Creator and Director of Rock The Boat Film Festival, Renae Hardie Braovich, comes a series of workshops to further help the community participate in sharing their stories. Renae is an experienced screenwriter with a feature film currently in development, and an award-winning corporate video producer and director of over 200 productions, with clients throughout Australia. A commissioned author and workshop facilitator, Renae's awards include recognition for innovation, business excellence and Business Person of the Year. Renae is also an Accredited Classifier for Film, approved to make classification decisions to be published to the National Classification Database. In early 2024, Renae was acknowledged by the City of Rockingham as a Nominee for the Community Citizen of the Year Awards for her work on Rock The Boat Film Festival, and the impact which this festival has had on the community, in helping bring people closer together and platform the voices and visions of aspiring filmmakers.