Ticketyboo: An Illustrated Story of Learning to Love Dementia

Ticketyboo is a deeply personal story of living with a loved one’s Alzheimer’s. Told with gentle humour & handy hints for interacting with dementia, it finds joyful fun in precious moments of connection. Photos & artworks make it an easy read for adults & young people, worldwide. It’s also a great companion to the documentary Ticketyboo: a Secret in Plain Sight (2022) written & director by the author, Renée Brack. In its first month of festival release, the film earned 10 Official Selection laurels, Special Mentions, Finalist status and 2 Best Documentary wins with more to come.

A graduate of UTS, Australia with a Master of Creative Arts (documentary and Virtual Reality) and a Bachelor of Arts, Macquarie University (screen and media studies, international politics) Renée is an acclaimed storyteller, journalist, writer and screen professional with 20+ years experience in film, TV, print and digital.

Recently, she pioneered research into a scripting template for immersive content (VR, CVR, 360) originated by filmmaker Elia Petridis of Fever Content, LA. She is also an award-winning filmmaker - writing, producing and directing short films plus plays produced in the world’s largest short play festival, Short+Sweet; and scripted the award-winning short thriller Red Handed which screened in many international film festivals with multiple award wins.

Right now, her social impact feature documentary Ticketyboo: a Secret in Plain Sight (2022) she wrote, directed and co-produced is on the international film festival circuit winning festival laurels and awards. The premiere at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival was sold out with a standing ovation. It's an uplifting, confronting, and deeply personal story to help people engage with dementia. Her book called Ticketyboo – an Illustrated Story of Learning to Love Dementia also released in 2022 and is a companion to the film. Ticketyboo is also the principal case study for her PhD.

IShe finds great joy in giving back to the filmmaking community by nurturing the next wave of screen professionals as a lecturer, EP, mentor and creative consultant on a wide range of award-winning films, documentary and web series, overseeing production from concept to transmission.

She also has a development slate of eclectic, mostly female-centric stories for screen, audio / podcasts and print known by her as “the dirty dozen I have to do before I die”.

A common response to her writing is, “I’ve never looked at it that way before” – testament to her creative and fresh approach to the stories she crafts.