Tracey Moffatt (Aboriginal) is a world-renowned filmmaker, photographer and artist, based in Sydney and New York, who first gained critical attention in 1990 for her short film Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy, an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival that year. Her first feature film, Bedevil, was screened at Cannes in 1993. Moffatt's documentary films and music videos have also won critical acclaim, and her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London. She was born in Brisbane, Australia, and studied visual communications at the Queensland College of Art.