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SCREEN TUTOR HIGHLIGHTS |
Tutor
Bios for Metro Screen as at 08.02.07
Cate
Shortland
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Shortland’s
first feature film ‘Somersault’ won her an AFI,
ASDA Award, FCCA award and IF Award for Best Direction.
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Carolyn
Johnson
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Carolyn
Johnson: Carolyn’s first feature film Son of a Lion
premiered at the Pusan International Film Festival in October
2007. She has also produced award-winning short films.
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Dean
Francis
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Dean
has directed many shorts with his film ‘Vermin’
premiering at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival in the Czech Republic.
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Heather
Oxenham
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Feature
producer: ‘Erskineville Kings’, ‘Kiss or
Kill’ to name a few, her short ‘Sexy Thing’,
was in the official selection for Cannes 2006.
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John
Janson-Moore
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Documentary
filmmaker: ‘Kidnapped!’, screened on SBS TV and
premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
for the Silver Wolf Award.
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Adrian
Rostirolla
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Adrian
was nominated for an Inside Film Award for Best Editor for
‘Kokoda’ and also edited Oscar nominee ‘Birthday
Boy’.
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| Tutor
Bios for Metro Screen as at 08.02.07 |
Carolyn
Johnson (Producing for Film
and TV)
Following a career in merchant banking, Carolyn moved into
film production in 1993. She is an AFTRS graduate, who has
produced six award winning short films, and worked as a producer,
production manager and script editor in television documentary
and drama. Along with a TV drama and documentary in development,
Carolyn currently has her first feature film in post-production. |
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Heather
Oxenham (Production
Management and 1st AD Intensive)
Heather has twenty years of extensive experience in the industry
on both commercial and independent productions. Her feature
film credits include Erskineville Kings, Kiss or Kill, Floating
Life and Sebastian and the Sparrow to mention just a few.
She has worked alongside some of Australia’s finest
Directors including; Bill Bennett, Rolfe de Heer and Scott
Hicks. Sexy Thing, produced by Heather, was in the official
selection for competition at Cannes Film festival 2006. Heather
is currently the Line Producer on All Saints with projects
in development in both Australia and the US. |
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Bonnie
Elliott
Bonnie Elliott works as a Cinematographer, Camera Operator,
and Focus Puller. In 2006 she won four Silver ACS Australian
Cinematography awards. Bonnie's credits include Fireflies,
Somersault, Pizza Live, Mr Patterns and many TVCs, music video
clips and short films including the recent Smile for Me funded
by the NSW FTO and Transient, winner of Best Short and Audience
Award at the 2005 Melbourne Queer Film Festival and Audience
Award at the 2005 Mardi Gras Film Festival. Bonnie recently
attended the Berlin Film Festival’s Berlinale Talent
Campus, being one of only 500 emerging young filmmakers from
around the word invited. Bonnie has also worked on many of
Metro Screen’s mentorship films and is currently completing
a Master of Arts in Cinematography at the Australian Film
Television Radio School. |
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Ross
Tesoriero (Flash Fundamentals)
Ross Tesoriero studied Visuals Arts at COFA UNSW, completing
his degree in 1996. He has operated as an illustrator, animator
and web designer for the last 10 years and creates online
flash animation, web sites and magazine cartoons in both freelance
and full-time employment. In 1998 he began working with Macromedia
Flash as an animation and multimedia application, Flash quickly
became the development tool of his choice. Ross is experienced
in the fields of CD-ROM Production, 2D Digital animation,
Game and Interactive scripting, Dynamic website design and
development. Currently he spends his time developing online
communications based applications and teaching a post-graduate
digital animation course. |
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Alec
Morgan (Advanced Screenwriting)
Alec Morgan is an experienced screenwriter and filmmaker whose
productions have screened on ABCTV and internationally. His
recent feature Hunt Angels, screened in cinemas in 2006, was
nominated for four AFI awards and screened at Parliament house.
Other credits include the multi-award winning Lousy Little
Sixpence (1984), Admission Impossible (1993) and The End Of
The Earth (1990), winner of the Gold Medal for Best Environmental
Film at the 1990 New York Film Festival. Alec’s short
film writing and directing credits include Old Fella Now (1980),
winner of Best Short Film at the Adelaide Film Festival and
Dusty Hearts (1990), winner of Best Short Film at the 1991
Asia-Pacific film festival. Alec has been twice nominated
for an AWGIE Award for his scripts. |
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John
Janson-Moore (Documentary Making Intensive and Documentary
Production Pathways)
John Janson-Moore is a writer, director and producer of documentaries,
drama and experimental films. A graduate of the Australian
Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS), John's films have
screened at the Sydney Film Festival, the Sydney Asia Pacific
Film Festival, on SBS television, at international festivals
and with broadcasters around the world. After receiving support
from the Australian Film Commission, the NSW Film and Television
Office, the Japan Foundation and the Sundance Institute (USA),
his most recent film, Kidnapped!, screened on SBS TV and recently
premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
(IDFA) in competition for the prestigious Silver Wolf Award.
The film has sold to broadcasters in Europe, Asia and America
and is currently travelling the international festival circuit. |
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Gareth
Tillson (Cert IV Camera and Lighting)
Gareth graduated from AFTRS in 2004 winning the Award for
High Achievement in Cinematography for his work on the short
film Blue Poles. In 2006 Gareth won an ACS Australian Cinematography
award. Since then he has completed a number of short dramas,
notably The Chess Set (2004) and Composure (2006). His work
in documentary includes the Dendy Award nominated Change of
Heart (2004) as well as the SBS series Heat In the Kitchen
(2005). Gareth is currently attached to a number of features,
short drama and documentary projects. |
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Kim
Mordaunt (Documentary Making)
Kim Mordaunt has been a filmmaker in both drama and documentary
and a teacher for 10 years. With a Communications Degree in
Film from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Diploma
in Acting from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he
started his career as a researcher in the UK for BBC and Channel
4 documentaries. Kim has since produced, directed and shot
several documentaries for television with support from the
Australian Film Commission, Film Finance Corporation, NSW
Film and TV Office and SBS Independent. These have been shown
internationally and won numerous awards. Kim most recently
directed a one-hour drama for SBS titled Jammin’ in
the Middle E and co-wrote, directed and shot Bomb Squad an
ABC documentary in Laos about a bomb disposal team working
on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. |
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Alison
Goodwin De Araujo (Continuity)
Alison has been working as a continuity person in the Film
and Television industry for over 18 years. During this time
she has worked on a number of feature films, including Young
Einstein, Reckless Kelly, Spider and Rose and The Punisher
(1988). She has also worked on a variety of telemovies and
mini-series. Alison currently is in her sixth year working
on the television series All Saints. Over the years she has
worked with a variety of directors and on different styles
of productions which has given her a wealth of knowledge on
the many facets of film making. |
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Tom
Cowan (Directing)
Tom is a pioneer of IMAX films, a double AFI winner and an
Emmy nominated cinematographer. He has directed many shorts
and feature length films including The Dancing Class, The
time of Their Lives and Sweet Dreamers. He has been the DOP
on over 20 feature films including Mouth to Mouth and Winter
Of Our Dreams. Tom directed the highly successful IMAX film
Antarctica which won the Prix du Jury at the Festival de la
Geode - the major award for giant screen films. It is the
most successful investment yet made by the Australian Film
Finance Corporation and has taken over US$100 million at the
box office. Tom’s first digital feature as director
entitled, Orange Love Story was a hit at the Melbourne International
Film Festival in August 2004. Tom also assisted at the birth
of the Australian Film Television and Radio School by shooting
seven films of the first intake of students including Gillian
Armstrong, Chris Noonan, James Rickettson, Graham Shirley
and Philip Noyce. Tom also served on staff at AFTRS in the
Directing Department for three years. |
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Renata
Bliss (Post-Production)
Renata Bliss is a certified Apple accredited editor and started
her film career as the in-house editor for various production
companies including the Sydney Opera House before moving into
making films and documentaries. She was segment director for
the BBC documentary series Backpack TV, she produced the award
winning documentary Painting With Light in a Dark World, and
has directed a slate of short fiction films. |
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Jonathon
Wald (Directing: Visual Storytelling)
Originally from California, Jonathan has directed five short
films, four of which he wrote. Together these films have screened
at just under 200 festivals, won numerous awards, featured
on DVD compilations in Europe and have been broadcast on cable
stations including the Sundance Channel and HereTV. Jonathan
has taught writing and directing at UCLA and AFTRS. Jonathan’s
studies include Art History and Women’s Studies at university,
where he graduated with High Honors. He worked for several
years in professional theatre in New York, and then at film
festivals in San Francisco. In 1997 he entered UCLA’s
film production masters program. Two years later Jonathan
received a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to the Australian
Film Television and Radio School, in Sydney and he has won
development funding from the AFC. |
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Doug
Suiter (Post-Production)
Doug is an experienced Director and On-air Promo Producer
working at XYZ Networks for the Music Channels Max, Channel
[V], CMC and Club [V]. Doug is a film and television generalist
with a background in Animation, Live Action Directing and
Writing. He is working on developing an Animation Series and
a one off Television Documentary. Doug also provides support
for the Sydney Final Cut Pro community online at www.sydneyfcp.info. |
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Alan
Butterfield (Cinema Projection)
Alan is one of Australia’s most experienced projectionists,
Alan has installed and operated film, video and sound equipment
for many years at the Sydney Opera House, Canberra’s
National Library, Sydney’s State Theatre, AFTRS and
the Chauvel Cinema. |
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Luke
Eve
Luke is one of Australia's most exciting and in-demand young
directors and producers, with a number of his short films
screened, and awarded prizes, in film festivals around the
globe. Luke began his career working as a freelance photographer
and formed his production company, More Sauce in 1999. He
is a graduate from the AFTRS in Producing and has a number
of feature films and television series in development both
as a producer and a director. He was the recipient of an AFC
funded internship with This is That productions in New York
City and his film Australian Summer was the winner of Tropfest
2005. He is currently running More Sauce and working as a
freelance director on high end commercials and high profile
music videos. |
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Adrian
Rostirolla (Post-Production)
In 2004 Adrian graduated from the Masters in Drama Editing
at AFTRS and in the same year edited the 50min Lebanese family
comedy drama Jamming in the Middle E for SBS. Adrian is the
2006 Inside Film Awards nominee for Best Editor for Kokoda.
Over the past 10 years, he has edited over 20 short films,
19 music videos, documentaries and corporate videos. Adrian
also edited Birthday Boy, Oscar nominee and winner of the
BAFTA for Best Short Animation.
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Ian
Andrews (Digital Content, Animation)
Ian Andrews is a Sydney based independent film, video and
sound artist who has been practicing since 1981. Beginning
with experimental audio collage, Andrews gradually moved into
the production of film and video, before becoming interested
in electronic music, digital animation and interactive net
art. Much of Andrews' work consists of video/sound collage
utilising a diverse range of visual styles - from animation
to "found" footage. Andrews' works have been exhibited
at various international film and video festivals in Edinburgh,
Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Naples, Catania, Amsterdam, Berlin and
Wellington, as well as numerous events throughout Australia.
Recently Andrews was selected as a participant in the Mobile
Journeys Masterclass and subsequent exhibitions. Andrews continues
to produce short experimental movies for mobile phones. |
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Dean
Francis (Young Filmmakers Workshops, Directing, Screenwriting
and Post-Production)
Dean is a recent AFTRS directing graduate. Dean has directed
many short films and a short feature. His films include Crazy
Richard, Afterlife, Too Little Justice, Boy's Grammar and
most recently Vermin. His short films Boy's Grammar and Transgression
are currently featuring at festivals in New York and San Francisco.
Dean’s film Vermin recently premiered at the prestigious
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. |
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Michael
Chrisoulakis (Young Filmmakers Workshops)
Michaels short suspense film, Interchange has screened at
many festivals worldwide and received awards including; Short
Film Winner‚ at both the Telluride Indie Fest and Key
West Indie Fest, Best Film at the Eyescream Halloween Film
Festival, Best Thriller‚ at the International Festival
of Cinema and Technology. Michael also received the Great
Expectations‚ award at the Sour Grapes Film Festival. |
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Craig
Boreham (Young Filmmakers Workshops)
Craig is an award winning short film director and the Young
Filmmakers coordinator. Craig is the writer and director of
short films, music clips and TVCs which have screened at on
television and in festivals both nationally and internationally.
His short, Transient, was included in the Berlin International
Film Festival. |
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Roger
Nelson (Screenwriting)
Born in Chicago, Roger Nelson studied at the Columbia College
Film School, then moved to Paris where he worked in the French
film industry for fifteen years. Ranging from production assistant
to assistant director to Claude Chabrol and Eduard Molinaro,
then to production design, he began writing screenplays in
French. He later moved to Los Angeles where he studied screenwriting
for three years, developed scripts with independent producers,
optioned two screenplays and coordinated industry speaking
events for the Scriptwriters Network. He now lives in Sydney,
where he continues to write and teach. |
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| Metro
Screen Contact |
For
further information please contact us on Metro Screen:
Metro Screen
P: +61 02 9356 1818
F: +61 02 9361 5320
E: metro@metroscreen.org.au
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