Sally Fryer is Senior Editor at Shark Island Productions and a Director of the Shark Island Documentary Fund and the Documentary Australia Foundation. She has cut over 100 documentaries during her career and in 2008 won the AFI Award for Best Editing in a documentary for THE OASIS.

THE OASIS received 4 nominations at the AFI Awards 2008 – Best Documentary, Best Direction, Best Editing and Best Sound. It won Best Direction and Best Editing. In 2009 she completed the two short films POLLY AND ME and WALL BOY, part of the ongoing outreach and education campaign for THE OASIS.

She is currently editing two feature length documentaries PAUL KELLY - STORIES OF ME, and OUR LITTLE GARDEN.

Sally has 24 years experience as a documentary film editor both in London and Sydney. She worked principally for the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK and for the ABC and SBS since her arrival in Australia.

In 2007 she completed IN THE COMPANY OF ACTORS – a feature documentary in which a company of actors reveal the magic and struggle of creating world class theatre. The film had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in 2007.

She was a finalist for the Dendy Awards Best Documentary Category 2005 with POLITICAL FOOTBALL, and was nominated for an AFI Award for Editing of THE ORIGINAL MERMAID in 2003, which went on to win the Film Critics Award for Best Documentary.

Her other Australian credits include DUST TO DUST, DOPE - A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF SPORT, ALONE ACROSS AUSTRALIA, DRAMA SCHOOL, WOODSTOCK FOR CAPITALISTS and THE TRACK. She was Senior Editor on WATERGATE  for Brook Lapping in London, which won the International Emmy for Best Documentary Series in 1995.

She is married and the very proud mother of 2 beautiful young boys, Louie and Thommo.