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Ellery has been working in camera departments
for three decades. From great Australian feature films such as Spotswood,
Death in Brunswick and Angel Baby, through to more
contemporary works The Rage in Placid Lake, Secret Life of Us,
and award-winning short film Ain’t Got No jazz, Ryan
has created consistently powerful and evocative images throughout
his career. Born in Melbourne, he continues to be based here, working
not only as a cinematographer but also as a director, taking up
jobs around the world.
Ellery is now part of the stable of directors at high-end production
house, Renegade Films. He has a significant number of directing
credits with the group, working on such commercials campaigns such
as for the Transport Accident Commission and the new generation
of Sunraysia commercials.
More information: www.renegade.com.au
Alice is best known for her roles as Carmen in ABC-TV’s SeaChange
and for her performances in Love and Other Catastrophes
(Film Critics’ Circle Award, AFI nomination for Best Supporting
Actress). Other television and feature film credits include Secret
Life of Us, Strange Planet, Nostradamus Kid, Loverboy
and Monkey Grip (AFI nomination) and short films Maidenhead,
Just Do It (It Awards, Best Short Film), and Frail Mary
(Brisbane Short Film Festival, Acting Award). Most recently she
has been working on Lantana director Ray Lawrence’s
new feature film, Jindabyne. She has also worked regularly
in theatre (Anthill, Playbox, MTC) and radio (ABC radio drama) for
nearly twenty years. She is a founding member of Actors for Refugees,
an informal network of actors who volunteer to perform stories of
refugees and asylum seekers to community and school groups, to encourage
a humanitarian response to their situation.
Alice also has a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne.
She has just published her first book, A Shifting Shore: Locals,
Outsiders, and the Transformation of a Fishing Town, 1823-2000
(Cornell University Press), a history of tourism and its impact
on a fishing community over the 19th and 20th Centuries. Alice is
currently a research fellow in the history department at Melbourne
University. She is also a French-English translator, and plays cello
with Euphonia. Alice co-wrote, arranged and recorded the soundtrack
to Rachael Perkins’ award-winning feature film One Night
the Moon, starring Paul Kelly.
More information: www.stageleft.com.au
Glendyn commenced his film education
at the Victorian College of the Arts, at age 25, taking up the documentary
stream. After completing his time studying, he found himself at
Exit Films, one of the most prolific production companies in Melbourne.
Exit Films also produced his first dramatic work, Crackerbag,
which won the coveted Palme D’Or for short film at the Cannes
Film Festival 2003. He also won accolades for his graduating film
titled Neverland, an investigation of the culture surrounding
bicycle couriers.
Glendyn has continued to work on commercials, having directed for
campaigns such as Maggi Noodles, Nestle Wicked Ice cream, The Salvation
Army and Twinings. He has also worked on a number of music clips
and promos, including those for Magic Dirt and Eskimo Joe, always
exhibiting his skills as a strong and unique image maker. More information:www.exit.com.auRobert studied Media and Education
at Melbourne University from 1982 to 1985, learning animation techniques
from Bruno Annetta and started animating in 2D for educational projects
while still studying. In 1988, he studied at Swinburne School of
Film and Television (now the VCA) and created an award winning stop-motion
short film, Still Flying, about a war veteran lost in his
reminiscences and dreams. In 1989, the film won an AFI (Australian
Film Institute) award for the Best Achievement in Animation.
From 1989 to1994 he worked in partnership with Anthony Lucas (now
at 3D Films) and Paul Gehrig (now at Swish), creating a company
called Oddball Animation. This was a time when stop-motion was beginning
to become a more popular technique in advertising and there were
few people in Australia offering it commercially. So, Oddball Animation
made stop-motion a specialty. Productions included commercials for
Kraft, Heinz and Duracell, and animated sequences for television
series produced by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation.
Taking up teaching at VCA in 1996, Robert has created a number of
animations working across the narrative and commercial fields.
In 2004, his latest film Lucky For Some was released and
has screened at festivals including the London Film Festival, the
Bradford Animation Festival, the Asia Pacific Film Festival, Adelaide,
Brisbane and Perth Film Festivals and was nominated for an AFI Award
in 2004. He recently completed a ‘4-Minute Wonder’ music
video for the ABC and he is currently working as a producer on two
animated shorts.Nick Fernandez first completed a BA
in painting at Monash University (1999) before studying filmmaking
at RMIT. While at RMIT he started working with a group who formed
Foreshore Film Festivals (FFF), which provides the creative direction
and much of the focus for the Bayside Film Festival. He has finished
work on two short films and is currently in post-production for
a third. His last film History was co-directed with Nick
McInerney, and was his most successful to date. It has played at
a number of screenings, including St Kilda Film Festival, Home Brewed
Film Festival and most significantly, the esteemed Palm Springs
International Film Festival in the United States.
Michael currently works as an editor and producer on Cactus
Garden, a free sports and culture show on Channel Ten. He is
also a co-founder of FFF which has presented various screenings
around Melbourne and is the creative base behind the Bayside Film
Festival. Michael has written, directed, produced and been the Director
of Photography for various short films, film clips, promotional
trailers and documentaries.
Michael has completed courses in both Media Studies and Film and
Television production.
Opie has spent most of his 26 years
surrounded by cameras. His passion for the visual world began with
photography at Eltham High School. This gradually paved his way
to working with video cameras with the making of his first short
film Vexation (1996). During and after his final years
in high school, Opie was involved with the under-age non-alcoholic
and drugs free music show. Fruitbowl, a locally-funded
project held in association with the government run youth initiative
group, FREEZA. Prior to commencing three years of film studies at
RMIT University in 2001, Opie worked as a freelance camera operator
and sound technician on various television shows and short film
productions. Currently finishing an undergraduates degree in Multimedia
at RMIT University, Opie has also been working on corporate and
commercial productions in a number of major roles for the last couple
of years. His main focus and goal is to be producing and directing
television commercials and music videos, with the intention of moving
into feature films.
Currently lecturing in the Diploma of Film and Video production
course at RMIT, Don has more than 20 years of experience in the
film and television industry as an assistant director, production
manager and scriptwriter. He has worked in Australia, New Zealand
and Hong Kong in film, television drama, commercials and radio productions
(Voodoo Baby 2005, Affair 2004, Deeper Than
Blue 2002).
He has been the associate-producer on two feature films and produced
the low budget feature; Affair shot in Melbourne last year.
He has also been involved in production development of numerous
other projects. As well as teaching, he is currently developing
a slate of projects of which Wil is the first.
Nick McInerney is a Melbourne based graduate of RMIT’s
School of Creative Media. He has worked on documentary, reality
television and drama productions in a variety of roles. His 2003
co-production with Nick Fernandez, the short drama History
was screened at festivals both in Australia and internationally.
He is currently working in post-production for film and television
commercials, and as a freelance camera-operator/editor.
Born in Warrnambool, Victoria, Colleen is currently teaching VCE
Media Studies and Studio Arts-Video at Sandringham Secondary College.
Her interest in teaching developed after working as a Media Technician
and A/V Co-ordinator at Xavier College for the past two and a half
years. Colleen completed her Dip.Ed in 2004, and previously studied
filmmaking at RMIT University and completed a BA in Media Studies
at La Trobe University in 1993.
Colleen has made two very successful documentaries, Chicks with
Decks and All The Ladies, which both examine the roles
of women in the skate and hip hop communities respectively. Her
films have screened at significant festivals such as Real: Life
on Film Documentary Festival (both titles), as well as the Melbourne
and Vancouver Hip Hop Film Festivals, and most recently the Woodford
Festival 2005. Chicks with Decks also won five awards at
different festivals, including Best Film at the Open Channel Love
Your Work screenings. In 2005 Colleen continues to be active in
the skating community, also working on a number of community-based
video projects.
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