Alexandra George: UNCLE

Alexandra George is a skilled practitioner working across short and longform film, television, online, commercial, music video and video installation formats—with experience in theatrical distribution.

UNCLE (AUS, 2024, 20min) is a short documentary about the extraordinary life of Uncle Jason Coombes (53yrs).

Weaving home from the desert sands of Far North Queensland to Victoria’s deep south-eastern Bung Yarnda country, Uncle’s story coincides with World Pride, a Referendum and a goodbye. Cinematically luscious, tonal and embracing a juxtaposition between observational storytelling with the heightened world of drag performance in extremis, UNCLE arrives at an “imaginative truth”. Offering lessons in living boldly and with self-compassion to us all, this is a film for audiences ready for an uplifting take on the healing power to self-determine one’s own path.

This film is an extension of Uncle and Alex’s advocacy for LGBTQIA+ stories.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Pride Foundation Australia pays respect to the traditional custodians of the land and sea on which we live, work and play, we pay our respects to Elders past and present, acknowledging that sovereignty was never ceded.

Pride Foundation Australia commits through the resources we have available to us, to work with, for, and alongside Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy peoples and communities to embed a self-determined future.

We further commit the contribution of a significant proportion of grant funding received to Aboriginal Torres Strait  South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy led initiatives to improve social outcomes.

Australia was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.