Judy Adamson
worked at Film Australia between 1950-52 and 1968-81. She is a long-time
film history and film society activist and life member of the M.E.A.A.
(Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance).
Karin Altmann
is a graduate of the National Film School of Great Britain. Her films as
writer/director include the AFI award winning "Raoul Wallenberg: Between
the Lines (also an Awgie winner)", "Holding On To What Is Real", runner-up
in the 1994 Prix Jeunesse (both documentaries), and, as a writer, "War and
Puss", (an Awgie nominee in children's drama). She was Program Director of
the 1991 Screenwriters' Conference and has been a member of its board since
then. She is currently a part-time Project Consultant for the Australian
Film Commission, a writer and script editor.
Sonja Armstrong
has been with the Australian Film Commission for three years.
Documentaries, low budget drama production and nurturing new talent have
been the focus of her work in Film Development. Documentary productions for
which she has been Project Co-ordinator include the " Microdocs series",
"Eternity", "Hell Bento!", "Islands of Humanity" and "The Miniskirted
Dynamo". Prior to joining the AFC Sonja spent three years in London
working in film distribution as Business Affairs and Finance Manager with
Enterprise Pictures, in film development with Milsom Associates, and as a
consultant to the European Script Fund.
Fiona Baker
is the Executive Producer for the Nine Network's RPA. She is also
currently working as EP on another Nine project Looking Good. Fiona began
her television career after completing her Bachelor of Arts Degree majoring
in Drama and Psychology. Her television career started with a job
researched for Simon Townsend's Wonderworld. She has subsequently worked at
Channels 10, 9 and 7. In 1990, she went to the ABC as producer for the 7.30
Report. before returning to Channel 9 to join the team at A Current Affair
as producer. In 1992 Fiona explored the realm of series reality television
producing Street Stories for the Nine Network.
Wayne Barker
is a director and musician born from the Yawuru and Jabirr Jabirr people on
the north-west coast of Australia. He worked with Wayee radio, and trained
in ethnomusicology, photography, film and video at the AIATSIS in Canberra
and on film shoots. He studied the broadcast system with the Inuit in
Canada then trained other young people in the Kimberley communities. Having
created his own production house he made documentaries, participated in the
photographic exhibition 'Inside black Australia' and was invited to present
his films in several festivals in France. His 53 minute documentary on the
Kimberley Aboriginal people Milli Milli won several awards in international
festivals, was broadcasted on television in Australia, China, Estonia etc.
He is currently writing music and script for a short drama and a feature.
Peter Beilby
is an Investment Manager for the Australian Film Finance Corporation. He
joined the production industry in 1973 as an editor and sound recordist at
the Media Centre at LaTrobe University working on documentaries. he is one
of the founding publishers of the film magazine Cinema Papers which he
edited on and off between 1969 and 1981. He has produced a number of
documentaries including Australian Movies to the World, a recent history of
the Austrlaian film industry.
Chris Berry
teaches Chinese cinema at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He has
extensive knowledge of Asian cinema and is the Australian co-ordinator of
NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema). He is the curator of
the NETPAC Asian Discovery Selection and a contributing editor to their
journal Cinemaya
Neil Bethune
is one of the owners of Australia OnLine, an Internet service provider
started in May 1994. Prior to that, he worked in television as a floor
manager and camera operator, first at Channel 9 and later Channel 7 in
Melbourne.
In 1983, he co-produced and directed a documentary "The Whale Savers",
about rescuing whales from Australian beaches, which sold around the world
and won a Penguin commendation.
Annette Blonski
is a freelance script editor, policy consultant and writer who has worked
with a number of film and arts organisations. As a script editor she works
in feature films, documentary and short drama and she has written both
fiction and film criticism.
Simon Britton
is Project Co-ordinator, New Media/New Technology at AFTRS Melbourne, where
he runs a series of courses for filmmakers at the AFTRS' New Media Studio.
He has written articles and spoken on the new media and new technologies at
a number of forums over the last five years.
Mick Broderick
has been pondering the nuclear sublime and the apocalyptic for too long. He
is the author of Nuclear Movies and the editor of Hibakusha Cinema:
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Japanese Nuclear Film.
Ian Bryson
is a postgraduate student in the Department of Archaeology and
Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is
conducting research on the history and politics of the ethnographic
documentaries made by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Studies.
Roger Buckeridge
is director of Myamyn Pty Ltd and serves as a consulting associate of
Cutler Company Pty Ltd. He has carried out a substantial range of
consultancy and investment management activities over an 18 year span. In
recent years, he has focused on the information technology, communications
and new media industries, both as an advisor and as a contracted manager of
an enterprise in its start-up phase.
Arthur Cantrill
together with Corinne Cantrill, has been making films since 1961; at first
documentaries on art, then experimental film, and editing and publishing
Cantrills Filmnotes, a journal on film and video art since 1971. Their film
work and publishing is well-known internationally; they are represented in
several film collections, including those of The Royal Film Archive of
Belgium, Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek (Berlin), Deutsches Filmmuseum
(Frankfurt), Musee National D'Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris),
PREA (Avignon), The British Council, and the National Library of Australia.
Arthur Cantrill is Associate Professor of Media Arts in the School of
Studies in Creative Arts, Victorian College of the Arts. He is writing a
book on Australian experimental film.
Alan Carter
is the series producer of First Person a set of six video diaries
commissioned by SBS and Open Channel. Prior to this he was Executive
manager of the Film and Television Institute in WA. He has been producing
documentary programs since 1983. Before his arrival in Australia in 1991,
Alan worked as an independent documentary producer in Britain. His
production credits include the award winning Billy Bell, Wooden Curtains
and We're Not for Sale. Alan has also worked extensively as a researcher
for productions commissioned by Channel 4 and the BBC.
Craig Carter
is an indepentant audio post-production speceliast who tracklayed and mixed
"Rythms of Life"
Tony Chapman
is Head of Television, SBS Melbourne.
Barbara Chobocky
is a well known independent documentary director with many successful and
award-winning projects to her credit. Most recently her projects have
included Billion Dollar Crop, and The Raid, which was awarded the 1985
AWGIE for Best Public Broadcast documentary.
Sharon Connolly
was a founding director of the highly successful Melbourne based production
company Yarra Bank films. In 1986-87 Sharon was senior script editor in the
Melbourne Drama Department of the ABC. She also worked as an independent
script editor and has been both Project Officer and Project Manager for
Film Victoria. She served as a councillor of the Screen Production
Association of Australia, Deputy Chair of the 1991 Australian Documentary
Conference and as a member of the Board of Film Victoria. Sharon was
appointed Executive Director at Film Australia in June 1993 and is
currently responsible for a slate of documentary, drama, and CD-Rom
programs developed and produced under the National Interest Program.
Jennifer Cornish
specialises in the production of blue chip wildlife films. Her company
Jennifer Cornish Media specialises in representing wildlife, multicultural,
adventure and travel documentaries to international television. JCM is also
involved in co-productions and multimedia products. The company has
recently entered a new venture, representing SBS Independent product in
international markets.
David Court
is the editor of The Content Letter and executive producer of the feature
film "Lilian's Story", currently in post-production
Kim Dalton
joined Beyond International Limited in 1995 as the Manager of Acquisitions
and Production. A graduate of Flinders University Drama School, he lived
in London from 1976-80 where he completed a post graduate diploma,
freelanced in the film industry, and managed an independent production and
distribution company. Since returning to Melbourne, he has worked as
General Manager of Open Channel, Melbourne Investment Manager for the FFC,
and General Manager for the Australian Children's TV Foundation, as well as
forming and running his own production company.
John Darling
Colin Dean
served his film apprenticeship in Britain's Crown Film Unit. From 1949 to
1956 he served as a Director at the Commonwealth Film Unit making the
extraordinary "Melbourne Wedding Belle". Colin was one of the progenitors
of Australian television in 1978 reaching the position of Federal Director
(TV) at the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Daryl Dellora
has been working as a documentary filmmaker for ten years. His most recent
film "Conspiracy" about the 1978 Hilton Hotel Bombing prompted fresh calls
in both state and federal parliaments for a royal commission into the
bombing. His 1991 film "Mr Neal is Entitled to Be an Agitator", about the
late High Court Judge Lionel Murphy, was awarded the Australian Human
Rights Award for Documentary film.
Maree Delofski
has been involved in several areas of documentary production including
broadcasting and script assessment as well
as reviewing. She was program director for the second Australian
Documentary Conference and is currently teaching in the screen studies
department at the AFTRS. She is co-editing a forthcoming documentary
edition of Media International Australia
with Jane Mills
Venieca Doolan
has been BRACS co-ordinator in Queensland since 1989. In this capacity she
oversees media training in nine communities, producing videos and
conducting onsite programs. Her committment to BRACS (Broadcasting in
Remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme) is to ensure that indigenous media is
delivered by indigenous people, for indigenous people and to be fully
representative of the indigenous view. .
Helen Durham
is a Melbourne lawyer who is currently the Chair of the Australian
Committee of Investigation into War Crimes. She is employed as a Program
Manager at the Asialink Centre. Helen is completing her Master of Laws at
the University of Melbourne and has spent much time studying the
international legal position of rape during times of conflict. In July
1995 she presented a paper to the Academic Council of the UN in The Hague
arguing that rape should be deemed a war crime under current international
law.
Karen Eastmure
is an account manager with Kodak Australasia. For over ten years she has
been providing technical service and customer support to the motion picture
industry in Victoria.
Chris Fitchett
was recently appointed Chief Executive Officer of the new Commerical
Television Production Fund. Prior to this he was Project Manager and Deputy
Director at Film Victoria. He was formerly an independent writer, director
and producer and his credits include the AFI award winning films
"Queensland" (producer) and "Blood Money" (writer/director). He also has
considerable experience as a script editor and taught screenwriting for
three years at AFTRS in Sydney.
John Flaus
The barefoot anarchist from working class Sydney who once went to the
drive-in without a car, John Flaus is the recorded voice you now get when
you ring the Working Nation hotline. Iconically Australian, Flaus is a
radio, stage and screen actor, film critic, academic and journalist. An
original filmnik, once criticised for 'wilful personal enthusiasm for films
of unedifying taste and questionable allegorical significance', Flaus is
passionate about films and was co-host of the long running "Film Buff's
Forecast" on 3RRR.
Keren Flavell
is the founder of Global Passage, a company that makes interactive
information for travellers. She has created the Global Passage netSTOP
internet site and is scripting and producing a series of CD Rom and video
travel guides which will be sold through the internet service. Flavell is
the author of Camping and Tramping in Australia's National Parks and is the
presenter of a travel program on 3RRRFM.
Michael Frankel
is principal solicitor of Michael Frankel & Co, and specialises in
intellectual property, entertainment and media law, multimedia and trade
practices related matters. He was a member of the Federal Attorney
General's Copyright Law Review Committee. He represents filmmakers in all
aspects, from development through to financing, production, distribution
and marketing
Richard Frankland
is an independent Koori filmmaker
Freda Freiberg
An author and cinema studies lecturer, Freda Freiberg contributed the
chapter on wartime Japanese cinema to Oxford University Press's forthcoming
anthology, "World War 2, Film and History". Apart from Japanese studies,
her research interests include Australian independent cinema and still
photography.
Martin Friedel
is the composer on the ABC documentary series "Rhythms of Life". He has
composed opera, chamber music, theatre, film and TV.
Dione Gilmour
is the Executive Producer of the ABC Natural History Unit and
Commissioning Editor of independent natural history and travel and
adventure programs.
David Goldie
has been making documentaries for 15 years during which time he has earned
a highly regarded reputation for his ability to examine sensitive, complex
social issues with depth and compassion. He is best known for his
nationally and internationally acclaimed documentaries; Out of Sight, Out
of Mind, Nobody's Children and Without Consent.
Mitzi Goldman
is an independent documentary director and producer. Her first film Snakes
and Ladders was an award winning documentary completed in 1987. In 1988/9
Mitzi worked at SBS-TV directing half hour documentaries for their
Australian Mosaic series. She then moved to the USA where she lived for
three years editing, writing and teaching. For the last three years Mitzi
has been living in Perth, teaching at Murdoch University and developing her
latest project The Wild Monkey (working title only)
Cynthia Goliopoulos
is Project Manager for CD-ROM at Pacific Access (T/A WYellowpages). With a
background in marketing, she is especially interested in facilitating the
transition of small businesses into the information age.
Mary Graham
turned a hobby of reading, music, films and chess into a strategy for the
development of indigenous media during her work as the Administrator of the
Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency in Brisbane in the early 1980's.
She is a Kumbumerri woman of the Gold Coast, Queensland. She has worked in
Aboriginal politics for 16 years (past member of Council for Aboriginal
Reconciliation, presently member of Brisbane Regional Council ATSIC, and
established Mary Graham and Associates Consultancy specialising in
Aboriginal perspectives and approaches to knowledge. She is the Executive
Producer of "Makin Tracks", her first film.
David Hanan
has taught film and television studies at Monash University since 1978. He
was company secretary of the Melbourne International Film Festival from
1985-1991. He has been responsible for the exchange of film programs
between Australia and Indonesia and Australia and Thailand, and is
currently completing a book on the representation of Asia in Australian
documentary from 1930-1995.
Brian Hannant
has been a screenwriter-director in the Australian film industry for more
than twenty-five years. After a brief career teaching physics and
mathematics he began making documentary films professionally at the
Commonwealth Film unit (now Film Australia). Several of his documentaries
have won major awards including the Statuette of St Finbar from the Cork
Festival in 1980 for Bound for the Alice. he has known the highs and lows
of feature filmmaking - from co-writing Mad Max 2, to co-writing and
directing The Time Guardian. This was all put to good use as head of
Directing at AFTRS for the past five years, a positions he has now just put
aside.
Cate Hemmings
is a specialist copyright lawyer who heads the Distribution Department of
the Audio-Visual Copyright society which is copyright collecting society
distributing royalties to owners of copyright in audio-visual works
including film producers, film distributors, scriptwriters and music
copyright owners.
Jeremy Hogarth
is a producer with the ABC Natural History Unit and co-ordinated the post
production of "Rhythms of Life."
Jonathan Holmes
has worked in current affairs as Executive Producer of "Four Corners" and
later "Foreign Corresondent." He wrote the narration for the ABC series
"Rhythms of Life."
Jenifer Hooks
was appointed the Executive Director of Film Victoria in July 1991. Prior
to this she was an independent television producer for twelve years and the
recipient of many awards for children's television. She is a graduate in
Economics and Geography from the University of Melbourne and attended the
Australian Film and Television School 1977-78. Her work in the film
industry has included service on a number of Boards - the Australian
Children's Television Foundation, the State Film Centre Council of
Victoria, Film Victoria, and currently the Interim Council of the National
Film and Sound Archive where she chairs the Technology Working Group.
Ted Hopkins
is the director of Aegis Multimedia and Champion Productions, Prahran,
Victoria. He is a writer, publisher and creator of multi-media whose
objective is "to become a storyteller in digital form". Recent digital
work includes "Virtual ICE Antarctic Multimedia" for the Museum of Victoria
and the Tasmanian Museum and "What's for Dinner, Thankyou!" featuring
Research the Dog, created and produced for Dataworks Educational Software.
Peter Hughes
lectures in Media Studies in the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Enquiry
at the University of Ballarat. He has also done work in marketing
documentary film for a number of film distributors and some script
development work.
Sally Ingleton
has specialised in making documentaries about Asian people in Australia.
She has produced and directed several films including the award winning The
Tenth Dancer and The Isabellas. She is currently post-producing Silk and
Steel and developing Mao's New Suit. She is Deputy Chair of the 1995
Australian Documentary onference and Melbourne Convenor for the Australian
Screen Directors Association. In both 1994 and 1995 she acted as Film
Victoria's Documentary Manager.
Graeme Isaac
has worked in a wide variety of fields within the Australian film industry,
as a writer, producer, script editor and music producer.In 1980 he co-wrote
and co-produced "Wrong Side of the Road", the first Australian feature with
an all Aboriginal cast, together with the first album of contemporary Black
Australian Rock and Roll. Since that time he has
produced both drama and documentary films including several documentaries
with Aboriginal subjects or elements. He is currently Supervising Producer
for short drama series invloving Indigenous directors and financed by the
AFC, State Film Bodies and SBS.
Claire Jager
is currently Film Victoria's Documentary Manager and a Board Member of the
1995 Australian Documentary Conference. Claire was a founding member of
Reel Women and has worked extensively in both documentary and drama. Her
most recent work "The Good Looker", a portrait of the well known Australian
painter Joy Hester won the 1995 AFI Best Documentary award.
Andrew Lloyd James
is the General Manager of SBS Independent. Born and educated in England,
he came to Australia in 1967, joined ABC-TV as a Relief Clerk and worked
his way through the organisation from Trainee to Senior Executive Producer.
The majority of his work has been in prime time documentary programs, many
of which have won awards including two Logies. In August 1988 he was
appointed Head of Television. After six years in that position, he moved to
his current position as General Manager of SBS Independent, a branch
established specifically to increase the quality of Australian produced
programs on the network.
Owen Johnston
A Queenslander who graduated from the Swinburne Film School, Owen spent
nearly 10 years contemplating the mysteries of Australian Rules football in
Melbourne while he learnt how to edit at Crawford Productions and Kestrel
Films. He is now an independent producer in Brisbane whose credits include
editing and producing "Red Ted and the Great Depression" (1994) and writing
and pro-ducing "The Legend of Fred Paterson" (1995).
Peter Jordan
is a graduate of the Swinburne Film & Television school. He has worked in
production on a number of Melbourne-based dramas and features. He is the
director and co-producer of the documentary The Sleep of Reason.
Mitchell Kelly
is a researcher with the ABC Natural History Unit and worked as assistant
camera on "Rhythms of Life."
Peter Kemp
A freelance writer and part-time lecturer in cinema studies, Peter Kemp's
reviews and articles have appeared in a variety of publications including
FilmNews, Cinema Papers, Artlink and The Melbourne Times. He contributed a
chapter on the last quarter-century of Australian feature films to the
recent AFI anthology "A Century of Australian Cinema". He has also
broadcast radio reviews and commentary on Melbourne 3RRR-FM's Film Buff's
Forecast and the ABC Radio's Arts National.
Arun Khanna
came to Australia in 1990 from India, where he headed his own design
company, and in that same year was appointed Managing Director of
Cadability. Cadability specialises in supplying complete solutions
(hardware/software) for the broadcast video and photographic markets, and
in multimedia production in the fields of CD-ROM development and Online
services. The interactive CD-ROM "AFL '95 Multimedia Football", was the
initial publication and Arun, on behalf of Cadability, was presented with
the AIMIA Multimedia award in the category of Education/Training in July
this year.
David Langsam
is a print, radio and television journalist, media consultant and lecturer.
He has recently returned to Australia from London, where he worked as a
correspondent for the Sydney Sun-Herald and the Bureau of National Affairs,
and taught journalism at City University. He has been a freelance
contributor to numerous newspapers, radio and TV programs including the BBC
World Service, RTE (Dublin) and ABC Radio.
Pat Laughren
Since co-writing and editing "Exits" (1980), Pat Laughren has worked to
promote filmmaking in Queensland. He is a senior lecturer in Media
Production at Griffith University in Brisbane and has been involved with
the Brisbane International Film Festival and the Queensland Cinematheque.
His credits include directing "Red Ted and the Great Depression" (1994) and
"The Legend of Fred Paterson" (1995)
Gillian Leahy
is an Australian filmmaker whose credits include "My Life Without Steve".
She is also a senior lecturer within the film and video major at the
University of Technology, Sydney.
John Lewis
is a television current affairs producer and an independent documentary
producer. He is currently executive producer of "Order in the House" (ABC)
and the producer of "The Good Looker" (1995).
Lisa logan
is presently working as a Project Co-ordinator for the Australian Film
Commission, supporting the development and production of interactive
multimedia, work employing new technology, animation and experimental film
and video. In 1994, Lisa Logan and Shiralee Saul opened New Media Network,
an exhibition venue to profile artists working with new media. Prior to
this, Lisa worked as Project Co-ordinator at Modern Image Makers
Association, where she programmed exhibitions and encouraged critical
writing about art and technology
Gary Maclennan
was born in Ireland but has spent the last twenty one years teaching in
Brisbane. He is a lecturer in Media Studies within the School of Media and
Journalism, Faculty of Arts, QUT. As a long time member of the Brisbane
Left, he played an active part in many campaigns against the corrupt
ultra-right Bjelke Petersen Government. He is currently doing research
towards a PhD on the topic of Left Wing Documentary Film in Australia from
1945 to 1990.
Bob Maza
is an Aboriginal actor and playwright and has recently been appointed as a
Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission. Mr Maza is well known as an
actor, having starred in productions such as Heartland, Reckless Kelly and
Fringe Dwellers. His play The Keepers is currently part of the NSW School
Curriculum. Mr Maza is a part-time lecturer with the Aboriginal Research
and Resource Centre at the University of NSW and also runs a communications
and media consultance specialising in increasing opportunities for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture within theatre, radio,
television and film.
Bryce Menzies
has developed an extensive entertainment and intellectual property law
practice. Since the 1980's, he has been heavily involved in the film
industry, working both as a lawyer and an Executive Producer. Films he has
worked on include "Malcolm", "The Big Steal", "Death in Brunswick", "Proof"
and Muriel's Wedding, as well as television's "The Magistrate" and "Stark".
Bruce Moir
has had a long association with Film Australia. From 1968 to 1978, he
worked as Director, Producer and Head of Production before taking up a
position as Executive Producer with the South Australian Film Corporation.
His credits include the feature film "Playing Beatie
Bow", the mini-series "Robbery Under Arms" and "The Shiralee", and the
docu-drama "Mortgage". In November, 1988 he returned to Film Australia and
was appointed Managing Director in 1989. He is also Director of the
Australian Multimedia Enterprise Limited.
John Moore
is the Executive Director of Open Channel, Melbourne's community cased
resource centre for independent filmmakers. John has produced a string of
award winning documentaries on co-production with independent filmmakers
including Guns and Roses with Carole Sklan, Barefoot Student Army with
Catherine Marciniak and Balck Man's Houses and Harold with Steve Thomas.
John was on the Advisory Committee for the 1991 Documentary Conference held
in Canberra.
Jane Mills
recently joined the AFTRS as Head of Screen Studies from Sheffield Hallam
University (UK) where she was Head of Documentary at the University's
Northern Media School. Formerly Head of Production at the National Film and
television School, Jane has made documentary films for English television
and served on the committees of a number of international documentary
festivals. She is author of several books and articles on issues of film,
language, gender and sexual politics.
David Noakes
is one of three Investment Managers working for the Australian Film
Finance Corporation. He began his film career as a director of photography
in 1978 and formed his production company Market Street Films in 1984. He
has produced drama and documentary and has directed a number of award
winning documentary films.
Jane Oehr
began her filmmaking career as a Trainee Director at the BBC in London and
then went on to direct many independent documentaries including "Niugini
Culture Shock". She has worked with leading filmmaking organisations
including Film Australia, ABC TV and SBS, and has lectured at the AFTRS.
She has written and directed many short dramas as well as the feature "On
the Loose" and telemovie "The Journey". She currently works in the AFC
Film Development Branch, overseeing the development and production of drama
and documentaries.
Dennis O'Rourke
came by his first job in the television industry courtesy of the ABC - who
employed him as an assistant gardener. It wasn't long before he was
promoted to cinematographer. Between 1975 and 1979 he lived in Papua New
Guinea and worked for the new government training Papua New Guineans in
filmmaking techniques. His first film Yumi Yet; Independence for Papua New
Guinea was completed in 1976 and was awarded many prizes. His other films
include: Yap...How did you know we'd like TV? (1980); Half Life: A Parable
for the Nuclear Age (1985); Cannibal Tours (1988) and The Good Woman of
Bangkok (1991). His awards include; The American Film Festival Blue Ribbon
Award, the Jury Prize for best Film at the Berlin Film Festival: the
Eastman Kodak award for Cinematography, the Director's Prize for
Extraordinary Achievement at the Sundance Film festival and the Australian
Film Institute's Byron Kennedy Award.
Michael O'Shaughnessy
lectures in Media Studies, including documentary film and television, at
Edith Cowan University in Perth.
Chris Peacock
returned from the U K in 1981 after ten years acting and directing in
community theatre. You'd think a holiday would do. No. Chris jumped feet
first into television, graduating form the ABC TV Producer course in 1985.
Invited to work in Brisbane near her family, she became a producer/director
(etc.) for Murriimage Community Video and Film Service, impacting on the
development of indigenous media with a community cultural base. She is a
descendant of Erub (in the Torres Strait) and, with partner Carl Fisher and
five children, lives north of Brisbane. A confessed workaholic, she is
producer/director of "Makin Tracks", her first film.
Daniel Pearce
Dan Pearce joined Holding Redlich in 1991 and became an Associate in 1994.
He practices in contract, companies and securities and intellectual
property law with emphasis on business acquisitions, corporate compliance
and media and entertainment. Some of his principal clients include Film
Australia, Network Ten, John Fairfax Holdings and its subsidiary AAV
Australia and a number of independent film producers including Richard
Franklin, Daniel Scharf and Fiona Eagger.
Josko Petkovic
teaches screen production at Murdoch University in Western Australia.
Originally a student of Swinburne Film School, he has been writing,
directing, producing, filming and editing his own films since 1976.
Mike Piper
is the executive producer of SA Government Films at the South Australian
Film Corporation under a non-exclusive contract. He is currently producing
and directing Rosenberg's Goanna, a half hour natural history program which
has been pre-sold to the ABC, with distribution by Beyond International.
Mike's other credit's include Echidna - the Survivor, Convicted, Facing the
World and Not a Nice Job for a Jewish Girl.
Russell Porter
is a documentary filmmaker, writer and director who has been closely
involved with the industry for over 20 years. His most recent film is
"Luchando - Cuba's Struggle to Survive". He is currently Project Officer
at the Melbourne Office of AFTRS, where he recently ran a documentary
series called "Reinventing the Real". This led to the formation of the new
Melbourne Documentary Group, with over 160 members.
Mike Rubbo
is the newly appointed Head of Documentaries at the Australian Broadcasting
Commission. As an expatriate Australian, he lived in Canada for many years,
spending much of that time as a staff director, writer and producer for the
National Film Board. He has made numerous programs that document social
and political issues, winning over forty awards. A few of his best known
films are: "Sad Song of Yellow Skin" made in Vietnam in 1970 about the war
and its effects, "Wet Earth and Warm People", the story ofpedicab drivers
and village people of Indonesia and "Man Who Can't Stop", which explored
the crusade of Francis Sutton against pollution of NSW coastal waters. He
has worked on U.N. film projects in South East Asia and Africa and has also
produced highly regarded films for the American PBS Network. He has also
worked as a documentary teacher with Harvard University and with AFTRS in
the 1980s.
Dasha Ross
is Executive Producer for ABC-TV Documentaries. After working in commercial
TV news and current affairs Dasha first joined the ABC in 1984 as a
producer with Four Corners and rejoined in 1987 as on-air reporter with the
7.30 Report. She has also worked with the International Festival of Video
and TV in Montbeliard, France and as a freelance print and radio journalist
in New York. In late 1990 she was appointed Project Co-ordinator for the
Australian Film Commission before joining ABC Documentaries in 1994.
Jennifer Sabine
is an Associate Professor and Dean of the Victorian College of the Arts,
School of Film and Television. She started her interest in film as a film
buff in the mid 60s, a member of Sydney University Film Group and W.E.A.
Film Study Group. Previous positions have included Film Study Officer for
the National Library of Australia, Distribution Manager of the Australian
Film Institute, and Manager for the Melbourne base of AFTRS. She has been
an assessor for the Women's Film Fund of the AFC, a Judge for the Melbourne
Film Festival, and a board member of numerous film organisations.
Wal Saunders
is the Manager, Indgienous Branch of the Australian Film Commission. Walter
is from the Gunditjmara people of the Western Districts of Victoria. He has
a long association with Indigenous media and image culture as well as
working in Aboriginal Education, Training and Employment.
Bill Simpson-Young
is a Project Manager of the Distributed Interactive Multimedia Information
Services (DIMMIS) project of the Research Data Network Cooperative Research
Centre and works at the CSIRO Division of Information Technology's Sydney
Laboratory. He received a BA (in History of Art and Computer Science), at
Auckland University and a Master of Cognitive Studies at UNSW. His current
interests are distributed multimedia and human-computer interaction.
Carole Sklan
is a Project Co-ordinator in the Film Development Branch of the Australian
Film Commission, working in the Melbourne office. Carole wrote and
directed "Guns and Roses", which won the AFI Award for Best Television
Documentary. She co-wrote "Fifty Years of Silence" with Jann Ruff, which
won the AFI Best Documentary and the Logie Award for Best Television
Documentary. Carole has also worked on the research and development of
major television drama and documentary series, including "Scales of
Justice", "Leaving of Liverpool", "Brides of Christ" and "The Last Dream".
John Smithies
assumed the role of Director of the State Film Centre of Victoria in 1991,
following an extensive restructure of the Centre. Prior to that he was
involved in the development of programs and exhibitions formats for new
media and film and video arts through gallery exhibition format, cinema
programming and video distribution.
Bill Stewart
is currently working at the University of Melbourne developing Multimedia
titles in an educational context. He has worked as a musician, both as a
performer and in the development, teaching and usage of computers with
music.
Deb C Stewart
is Channel Manager for Discovery Channel - Australia. In this capacity she
is responsible for overseeing marketing, publicity and local production.
Prior to joining Discovery Channel, Deb worked for XYZ Entertainment as
Channel Manager to create the documentary channel Quest. She has also
produced and directed documentaries for the Seven and Nine Networks and the
1994 Commonwealth Games.
Gerald Stone
has been an influential figure in Australian television journalism for
nearly 30 years. He is best known as the creator of Channel 9's 60
Minutes. In 10 years as executive producer he led that program to
unprecedented ratings success. He began his career as a copy boy with the
New York Times and after arriving in Australia in 1962, went on to become a
newspaper war correspondent and author during the Vietnam years. He was an
award-winning reporter for the ABC's pioneering "This Day Tonight". In
recent years he has served as head of current affairs for Rupert Murdoch's
Fox Network in New York and network head of current affairs for the Seven
Network. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin Magazine
Steve Thomas
began making documentary films after he migrated to Melbourne in 1981 from
the UK, where he had worked in teaching, youth work and race relations.
His 1992 film "Black Man's Houses" (1992), produced in association with the
Flinders Island Aboriginal community, is about the search for the graves of
their ancestors and exploding the myth of Aboriginal extinction in
Tasmania. "Harold" (1994) was a collaboration with the family of the late
Harold Blair about his life and work as an opera singer and Aboriginal
activist.
Daniela Thorsch
is an associate producer at Insight, a national current affairs program on
SBS television where she's worked since 1988 on various current affairs
programs including The Tonight Show and Dateline. In 1987 Daniela was the
inaugural Director of the Australian National Documentary Conference held
near Adelaide and more recently was the Executive Director of the Third
Documentary Conference held in Sydney in 1933.
Daniela has worked as a journalist and filmmaker in Australia and overseas,
including a two year appointment as Executive Producer of the Women's Film
Unit at Film Australia from 1985 to 1987.
Michelle Torres
is from the Yawuru people who live on the NW coast of Australia. She has
worked with the ABC, SBS and WAAMA as a presenter, researcher and producer.
She is known as an actor having appeared as the commentator in the
acclaimed 'mockumentary 'Barbaquieria'. She is currently completing her
Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies.
Laura Tricker
the Director of Multimedia Production at Monitor Interactive Communications
in New South Wales, has a background in teaching, research, film and video
production. For the past seven years she has been working exclusively in
the field of interactive multimedia. During that time she has produced
more than ten interactive multimedia programs, principally point of
information and human resource development programs, which are successfully
marketed internationally.
Franziska Wagenfeld
is an independent producer whose credits include the stylised ABC microdoc
Brief Secrets which screened as a short film in Australia, NZ and opened
the Nuart Cinama in LA. She produced the acclaimed documentary Scars
nominated in this year's AFI Awards for best television documentary as well
as Ann Turner's short drama Bathing Boxes which recently screened at the
33rd New York Film Festival. Franziska is presently post-producing an
adventurous half hour ABC/AFC documentary entitled Come As You Are.
Dean Williams
teaches film and television in the Department of Visual Arts, Monash
University. He is the author of "Mapping the Imaginary", an AFI
publication to be released later this year and is presently researching
Australian Documentary Film 1935-1955.
Gordon Williams
is the Director of the Office for Communication and Multimedia at the
Department of Premier and Cabinet for Victoria. Gordon has had twelve years
experience as a professional communicator with State and Federal
Governments, and at a senior level in the international computer industry
with Asia-Pacific wide responsibility for developing innovation in
communicatio and technology methods for use in industry, government and the
general community.
R. Maslyn Williams
served alongside Frank Hurley and Damien Parer as a war correspondent and
was a Senior producer and Director in the Commonwealth Film Unit. His Film
"Mike and Stefani", stands as a singular achievement in Australian
documentary film making. Maslyn has since become a respected writer of
fiction and non-fiction with some 17 booksto his name.
Tim Worner
started his career as a newspaper journalist in Perth before joining TVW
Seven where he produced "Seven Nightly News" and "State Affair". He then
joined Beyond Productions, working extensively in the field before becoming
series producer of "Beyond 2000". He also made a number of documentaries
including "Agenda 21" and "20th Century Syndrome" for the Seven Network,
and "AIDS-What Do We Tell Our Children?" for London Weekend Television. He
was Executive Producer of the Nine Network's "Wild Life" and is now
Executive Producer-Infotainment for the Seven Network.
Dr Ken Yap
received his Ph.D in computer science from the University of Rochester in
1990. His research interests are in broadband networking, multimedia, and
human-computer interactions. He is an avid film-goer.
Tom Zubrycki
emigrated to Australia with his Polish parents in the late 1950s. After
studies in sociology and politics he became active in the 1970s in the
community access video movement, which led him to documentary. Since 1979,
he has directed and produced a body of work dealing with contemporary
Australian political, cultural and social issues. His films include:
"Waterloo"(1981), "Kerima-Diary of a Strike" (1984), "Friends & Enemies"
(1987), "Lord of the Bush" (1990), "Bran Nue Dae" (1991) and "Homelands"
(1993).