Lynette Wallworth (Australia)
Artist / Filmmaker
Independent

Lynette Wallworth has won two Emmy awards for her innovative VR and XR works.

Wallworth’s works include the interactive video installation Evolution of Fearlessness; the DOMIE Award-winning full-dome feature Coral, the AACTA Award-winning documentary Tender, the Emmy® Award-winning virtual reality narrative Collisions and Awavena which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, was in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2018 and in September 2020 garnered Lynette her 2nd International Emmy® Award for Outstanding New Approaches in Documentary.

Wallworth has been awarded a UNESCO City of Film Award, the Byron Kennedy Award for Innovation and Excellence, and in 2016 was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the year’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. Currently, she is an Artist in residence at ANU’s School of Cybernetics. She directed the New Narratives Lab for the World Economic Forum to generate opportunities for under-represented voices. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Metaverse Governance Working Group and she is a Trustee on the Sundance Institute’s Board of Trustees.