Joey George is a filmmaker and contemporary visual artist based in Sydney, Australia.

He grew up in regional Western Australia, where life revolved around Church, and his father’s super 8 film camera. Joey saved to buy his own video camera by selling chicken eggs to parishioners, and then taking bets from them to complete dares. The side effects you would expect from drinking two litres of seawater in front of a congregation at the beach were worth the cash he earned to finally make films of his own.

Driven by a compulsion to explore what lies overhead and within, and encouraged by his devout Pentecostal family, Joey ended up in seminary in 2012, preparing for life as a priest. But his experience at the University of Divinity pushed him further from organised religion, as Joey realised his study of theology was not opening the doors to life-affirming enlightenment and self-awareness he expected. 

As a filmmaker, Joey is passionate about how art can drive a reclamation of spiritualism, meaning and place beyond the narrow narrative offered by organised faith, and force people to explore new worlds within and outside of themselves. 

His yearning to explore the unknown, and for identity and place comes from being denied this opportunity as a child and adolescent born into a devoutly Pentecostal family, whose faith created place and understanding for him, dictated by ideology.

Joey completed a bachelor’s degree in political science at Monash University and postgraduate study in documentary filmmaking at the University of Melbourne. He is also a recent graduate of the Sydney College of the Arts.