background
Kyla began working in the documentary genre after becoming a finalist in the first series of ABC Television's Race Around the World. After completing the 'Race' Training and Selection course at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (NSW) in 1997, Kyla co-founded the production company Wired Vision and made several short documentary films for television broadcast. At the end of the year she was selected as the Victorian representative in a micro-documentary collection for the LOUD Media Arts Festival.
In 1998 Kyla obtained an Australian Broadcasting Corporation/Film Finance Corporation ACCORD pre-sale for a 27-minute program called THE PECKING ORDER. In 2001, Kyla was granted Development Funding from the Australian Film Commission to research a 52-minute documentary called MURPHY'S LAW in outback NSW.
Kyla has worked in several modes and media of non-fiction including print and video journalism. In 2000 Kyla was employed full-time as a journalist at The Sunday Age before quickly returning to freelance work. After eighteen months writing regularly for SundayLife! magazine Kyla shifted into solo video journalism. In late 2001 she was sent by SBS Television's Dateline on an assignment in South Africa.
Kyla has been making independent radio features and documentaries for ABC Radio National since 2001. After completing an internship at ABC Radio in 2004 she has worked casually as an in-house producer on a range of Radio National programs including All in the Mind, The Law Report, Exhibit A, Lingua Franca and The Book Show.
Kyla is also a lecturer and tutor in radio and television production at RMIT University. She has worked as a sessional since 2005 and has taught into both core undergraduate courses and advanced learning modules. Kyla has guest lectured at various institutions since 1998, including the Australian Film Television and Radio School (NSW), RMIT University and Swinburne University.