CHANGEMAKER
Lights, camera, action
Tracey Corbin-Matchett, the CEO of Bus Stop Films, is dedicated to disrupting filmmaking to achieve human rights outcomes for people with disability
WORDS MAEVE GALEA
Actor Olivia Hargroder on the set of Bus Stop’s first feature film, Boss Cat.
It was during her third week of high school that Tracey Corbin-Matchett understood what it meant to lose out on an opportunity for no other reason than the circumstances you were born into. “My family couldn’t afford for me to go to Year 7 camp,” she remembers of growing up in public housing in south-west Sydney, explaining that while all the other kids were bonding over the low ropes course, she had to spend the week sitting in the Year Eight classrooms “cloaked in shame”. “At the time, I thought, ‘This is really unfair. Just because I come from a poor family, I can’t have this experience.’” She pauses, reflecting, “It really was a turning point in me [when I decided] I would always do things to spread kindness and help others out.”