But Yolanda Ramke, along with her working partner Ben Howling, has gone from a viral short film, to a feature with an International actor, to direct in North America, to receive two AWGIES from the Writers’ Guild, to then create Troppo, the drama series currently running on the ABC. All in less than ten years.
‘I do have a really formative memory of being eight years old and going to see Jurassic Park with my dad at the cinema. And we didn’t have cinemas where I was when we were growing up so it was a real treat. Seeing the impact on an audience, and seeing my father awed and blown away and sucked into this fictional world – I was enamoured of it.’