Register here to be added to this list: Name: Company: Title: Email: WWW: Blurb: Kim Anderson Digital Services Director Channel 9 Kim Anderson is Director of Digital Services for the Nine Network. Formally, Kim was ninemsn's Director of Marketing and Network Services responsible for development of the ninemsn network content and marketing strategies, including the integration of Channel 9 and Australian Consolidated Press properties. Kim was the Director of Business Development (Publishing) at Ecorp (formerly PBl Online). Prior to joining PBL Online, Kim was Head of Development for the Australian Multimedia Enterprise, an investment vehicle set up by the Federal Government to invest in and stimulate private investment in multimedia. Kim joined the AME in 1995 after returning to Australia from the US. Prior to this, Kim had been with News Corp for seven years, where she was VP and Publishing Director of HarperCollins Interactive, based in New York. She was instrumental in establishing the Advanced Media Group, set up to integrate and work with the other News Corp companies in order to develop a new media strategy. Originally based in Sydney as Non-fiction Publisher for HarperCollins, Kim has worked for a variety of book publishers and newspaper proprietors, including John Fairfax & Sons, Prentice Hall, Grolier and Kevin Weldon and Associates. Kim has also lectured part time in Publishing at Macquarie University and has written for major newspapers and magazines, including the Sydney Morning Herald and PC World. She is on the board of the Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law at Melbourne University. Chris Barker New Media Project Officer South Australian Film Corporation Will Berryman Head of New Media SBS Will Berryman's career spans radio and television broadcasting, multimedia business development, computing and executive media management. He was appointed as Head of SBS New Media at the beginning of 2000 to create and lead the new content division, alongside SBS Radio and SBS Television, and to combine and integrate multimedia content development the management of all SBS's information technology infrastructure. Previously, as Director of Multimedia at Fox Studios Australia, Will Berryman designed and oversaw the development of the digital communication infrastructure at the studio and retail areas of the Moore Park complex. At Nickelodeon, the childrens' Pay-TV channel, he initiated international joint-ventures for the channel and established Australia's the most visited and successful children's website. Will Berryman began reporting on digital technology and multimedia on the ABC's NewsRadio network in 1994, the first such specialist reports to appear on Australia media. In 1996, he won The Michael Daly Award for excellence in Science and Technology Journalism for his work on television. Mark Cloudsdale General Manager Digital Content and Creative Services Seven Network Australia After studying Architecture, Mark completed a degree in Media and Psychology, and has worked in television production, promotions and marketing for over 20 years. During that time he created and ran a small advertising production house, developed numerous successful television campaigns for the Seven Network, directed network lifestyle programs, produced documentaries, and created on-air campaigns that have won Awards all over the world. As On-Air Advertising and Marketing Manager, he was one of the initiating team who so successfully have re-branded the Seven Network. Following the Networks successful Olympic Games, Mark targeted digital TV as his next challenge, and is now leading Seven's creative strategy for iTV content and implementation. Anthony Coles Managing Director Empire Ridge Former direct marketing strategist, established Empire Ridge as a specialist internet marketing service provider in 1996. Team of consultants, project managers, programmers and designers providing strategy, creative and media services. - Australian Top 10 Interactive Agency, 2001. - President, (SA), Australian Marketing Institute "Because there's more to the web than building websites" Heather Croall Senior Project Officer South Australian Film Corporation Heather Croall has worked as a documentary producer/director and a curator of film events for the last 12 years under her company Re Angle Pictures. Re Angle Pictures credits include documentary works commissioned by SBSi, ABC TV, SBS TV, Channel 4 U.K. and others. Heather’s award winning documentary, Paradise Bent, has played at international documentary festivals and sold to many territories in the world through Beyond International. Heather started a Film and New Media Studio with Virtual Artists P/L in 1994 - working on convergent projects and live streaming events put on by VA including Womadelaide’s Intertent in 1995. Heather founded the first ever film component in the Adelaide Fringe in 1994, “Shoot the Fringe”, and has run cinema programs and outdoor film events in the Adelaide Fringe & Adelaide Festival since that time. She was on the programming committee of the 1999 Adelaide Documentary Conference, and has been active member of many film, television and media events and organisations. Heather is currently the Senior Project Officer of Industry Development at the SAFC. Judith Crombie Chief Executive Officer South Australian Film Corporation Barry Crush Managing Director Underwater Research & Dev.P/L Documentary film-maker from 16mm to digital. Expertise is in Aboriginal personal stories and wildlife. Other areas are aviation, and underwater terain and creatures. Sohail Dadhal Director Goldie Dadhal New Media Sohail Dahdal is a new media producer, interaction designer and software engineer, with experience in both the IT and film industry. This experience has put Sohail in a unique position to be a leading force in bridging the gap between the new forms of interactive multimedia and the traditional art of filmmaking. Sohail has produced, designed, or/and engineered hundreds of CD-ROMs and websites and continues to push the boundaries of information and communication technology. Francesca da Rimini Artist Gashgirl Francesca da Rimini has been working in the field of new media since 1984 as an arts manager, film and video maker, curator, corporate geisha girl, cyberfeminist, poet, puppet mistress and ghost. Through her avatars GashGirl, dollyoko, LiQuiD_Nation she has investigated the creative potential of negotiated email relationships, virtual communities and new narrative architectures, reverse engineering her experiences into multiple immaterialities, poems and personas. This research crystallised in various collaborations including a novel FleshMeat, the pond of dead girls in dollspace, a counter spectre to globalisation in Los Días y Las Noches de los Muertos and identity_runners fracturing of the mass, consensual hallucination of command and control. In 1999, Francesca was the recipient of a New Media Fund Fellowship to explore quantum physics and indigenous knowledge systems. This has drawn her into the current realities surrounding Aboriginal land rights and protection of culture, Australian environmental and activist movements and Big Daddy Mainframe's extensive tentacles into the nuclear, military and mining industries. In August 2001 Francesca was invited to Hong Kong to undertake an artist residency at Videotage. In October 2001 her online work received critical acclaim at Next Wave Down Under at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In April 2002 her net art projects will be exhibited in the San Paolo Biennale, Brazil. Many of Francesca's online projects, texts and interviews squat the screens at System-X - http://sysx.org/gashgirl/. Daryl Dellora Documentary Consultant SBS Independent Daryl Dellora is currently the SBS Independent (Documentary) Consultant in Melbourne. He has made many documentaries for television and recently wrote the documentary film "Harvest of a Quiet Eye" about landscape designer, author and photographer Edna Walling. This project produced by Tantamount Productions represents the first time that a documentary film has been conceived at the same time as, and in conjunction with, a web site. The web site is now up and running and the documentary film is in development. Sara Diamond Artistic Director MVA / Executive Producer Television and New Media Coproductions Banff New Media Institute DigiDocs Conference co-chairman Sara Diamond is a television and new media producer/director, video artist, curator, critic, teacher and artistic director. She was born in New York City and has resided in Western Canada since 1978. She is currently the Executive Producer for Television and New Media and the Artistic Director of Media and Visual Arts at the Banff Centre. Diamond is responsible for developing the artistic and professional development direction of MVA, developing research perspectives, Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) events, co-productions, artists' residencies and partnerships, and workstudy opportunities. She is also responsible for the publishing initiatives of MVA and the Walter Phillips Gallery as well as collaborations with the Aboriginal Arts Program and other departments. Among her accomplishments at the Centre, Diamond developed and implemented artist based video practice, television co-productions of artists' works in video and video installation support. She has continued a series of strong thematic residencies in MVA for visual artists, as well as new works programs. As Executive Producer, Diamond has been involved in over one hundred and thirty video and interactive media projects. She also created the Banff New Media Institute, which offers a year long series of think tanks, summits and workshops and is responsible for BNMI fundraising and partnerships. She created a prototype development environment for interactive media projects and continues to curate one or two major exhibitions each year. The exhibitions usually relate, or involve, interactive media components and a thematic creative residency running at the Centre. Diamond is also a key contributor and creator of the New Media Focus strand of programming, which runs each year at the prestigious Banff Television Festival. Her videotapes have been screened all over the world. In 1992, Diamond was honoured with a retrospective exhibition and catalogue at the National Gallery of Canada, following a retrospective at the 1991 IMAGES Festival in Toronto and a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has had many solo exhibitions including Patternity, an installation commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery, which is now in the permanent collection of the National Gallery. She was awarded the Gold Medal in History by Simon Fraser University in 1990 and has won awards from the Canada Council, British Columbia Film, British Columbia Culture and various others. One of her most recent honours is the 1995 Bell Canada Award for excellence in video. She was nominated British Columbia Woman of the Year and is included in Canada's Who's Who. She is currently working on Code Zebra, a project that links artists and scientists in live and virtual events and through software. As a teacher and lecturer, Diamond leads workshops, lectures and short courses for many post-secondary institutions and art centers. For more than eight years she served as faculty in studio and critical studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. She has also taught at the Capilano College Labour Studies Program and the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California and the prestigious UCLA Design/Media program. She speaks at international multimedia industry conferences, consults with the communications industry on issues of content and delivery and is a regular presenter, curator and consultant for artists' new media events. She is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and has been named as one of Alberta's fifty most influential people by Venture Alberta. Diamond writes for diverse publications and anthologies on the history of video art, current issues in new technologies, sexuality and censorship, and social history. She has recently completed a history of computer arts in Western Canada and is writing a text on French theory, new media and North American cultural analysis. She chaired the tri-national arts panel between Mexico, Canada and the US, has sat on many boards, and has served on numerous juries. She was a representative on the federal task force on training for the cultural sector and an alternate on the task force on the rights of the artist, a consultant to the Minister of Canadian Heritage on new media and serves on the Cultural Industries Sectoral Advisory on Trade Secretariat. Recently, she has consulted with Brazilian, Cuban, French and other international environments to present interactive media seminars, conferences and exhibitions and served on the l998 and 2001 SIGGRAPH panels committees. She currently sits on several Ph.D. thesis committees for the University of Calgary and is a member of the advisory council for the development of the Technical University of BC. Diamond is also an Adjunct Professor to the Department of Design at UCLA. She has recently been writer in residency at the University of Surrey in the UK and is undertaking research with that institution and the London Institute. She continues to lead research in collaborative work and is also currently leading research in advanced design of visualization environments, cross-disciplinary research and media convergence. She is Principle Investigator on the Human Centered Interface Project, Out of the Box and Code Zebra. She contributes to peer review journals in the fields of Media and Communications Studies and sits on the editorial board of peer review journals. She is currently co-editing and editing publications about art and science, living architecture. A book of her writings will be published in the UK in 2002. Domenic Friguglietti Manager Commissioning and Co-Productions ABC New Media ABC Domenic currently holds the position of Manager Commissioning and Co-productions with ABC New Media. He is primarily responsible for managing the Division's commissioning process and co-developing production proposals involving the independent production sector and other strategic partners. Domenic is also responsible for managing the new media production Accord with Film Victoria and the Documentary Online initiative with the Australian Film Commission. Additionally, Domenic's responsibilities include liaising with the Content Rights Division on matters pertaining to rights and other business affairs. Domenic was the first staffer to be engaged in 1996 by the then ABC Multimedia department in the Victorian office. Prior to joining, Domenic worked as a project manager for ABC International Development and has also held positions with Radio Australia and Radio National. Marcus Gillezeau Executive Producer Firelight Productions Kim Gleeson New Media Producer UDHR Kim Gleeson is an independent writer, director and producer who has worked on theatre, documentary and new media projects for the last 10 years. Documentary Credits include "Marngrook, the History of Aboriginal Footballers in the Australian Football League" produced by CAAMA Productions and screened by the Seven Network , "In a Nutshell, Cross Cultural Communications in the Workplace" for the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and various documentary projects for the Victorian Education Department and other state and federal government agencies.In 1998, Kim created a major human rights internet site called the Universal Rights Network at www.universalrights.net with funding from Cinemedia/Film Victoria to promote the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The site was a semi-finalist in the Australian Internet Awards, a Finalist, in the Australian Human Rights Awards, and is now linked by over 200 other sites in some 30 countries. Linking sites include a number of United Nations Agencies such as the UN Library, UNICEF, UNHCHR and the UNDP.Kim has maintained the site for the last 3 years posting human rights stories from around the world. Most recently Kim wrote a series of stories about young peoples concerns for the 2002 Victorian Youth Strategy. David Goldie Director Goldie Dadhal New Media It's estimated that more than 20 million Australian viewers have been drawn to the screen by David Goldie’s documentary specials. With AFI, Human Rights, Logies and international awards, David Goldie is one of Australia's most enduring and popular documentary filmmakers. His noted successes have been with longitudinal series: Nobody's Children, The Big House & Spirit 2000; and more recently Australians at War. A year ago David joined forces with new media expert Sohail Dahdal to produce one of Australia's first totally interactive online documentaries. A J Hipster Regional Assistance Program South Australian Film Corporation Suzie Hoban New Media Project Officer SBS Chris Joyner Regional Assistance Program South Australian Film Corporation Peter Kaufmann Project Manager Film Development Australian Film Commission Peter Kaufmann is a producer of drama and documentary with credits including the ABC/AFC Microdance series, INSATIABLE with composer and director David Chesworth and the documentary ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS. He has also worked in film programming and exhibition as director of the St.Kilda Film Festival and Exhibition Manager at the Australian Film Institute. Kate Kennedy White New Media Producer Kate Kennedy White combines her skills as an educator, social planner, television producer and online strategist to develop and implement communication strategies and solutions. She has held senior executive production and management positions for MSN.COM Australia, Network TEN, and the Nine Network and created screeenexchange.com, the world's largest online media distribution company. Most recently she produced the Peoplescape Concert, live televised finale celebration for the Centenary of Federation. David Lane ABC New Media Regional Editor ABC Current Responsibilities include editorial reference point for New Media Arts, Education, Backyard (Local Radio), Radio National, Radio Australia and Classic FM content production, input into ABC New Media's content commissioning process, development of the ABC New Media / ABC Radio relationship and line manager for New Media production staff located in South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. Prior work includes producer of the ABC's Federation Gateway and associated sites, producer of the ABC Online's community publishing pilot project, Australians Online, script consultant on multimedia projects, including Unearthed, Mabo and The Good Cook, 15 years in radio, devising researching, producing, presenting talk radio and current affairs programs on ABC and public radio and media lecturer and trainer - Australia (Swinburne) and overseas (South Africa and Tonga). Susan MacKinnon Documentary Investment Manager Film Finance Corporation Susan MacKinnon worked as an independent producer for eleven years. She won many awards and gained international acclaim for her documentaries. Her most recent film was the very popular short drama, FETCH, which has screened in over fifty world festivals, including official competition at Cannes. Among her successful documentaries are - ETERNITY; LOADED - THE GUN LOVERS; YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, DINNER FOR SIX, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIGHT AND REFLECTION and MEN AND THEIR SHEDS. Presently Susan is the documentary investment manager at the Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC) where she assists filmmakers in negotiating finances for their documentaries. The FFC is a wholly owned Commonwealth government organisation that provides equity finance to the Australian independent production sector for feature films, television drama and documentaries. Susan is on the board of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), is a founding member of the Australian Documentary Foundation and a member of the Hot Doc's International Advisory Council in Toronto. Sue McCauley Designer/Developer Sue McCauley is a multimedia producer, lecturer in multimedia at Victoria University and curator. Sue is currently the Digital Arts Curator/ Producer for the Next Wave Festival 2002. In 1999 - 2000 she co-ordinated the Digital Arts program for the Next Wave Festival and was the Producer, Concept Developer and Project Manager of the ABC/Cinemedia Accord online project "Fest on the Net" (http://arts.abc.net.au/netfest) She curated and presented the Fusion multimedia program of the St Kilda Film Festival in 1999, 2000 and 2001. She is currently developing a program of Performance and Multimedia for the St Kilda Film Festival 2002. Suzy Peters Manager, Non Fiction Business Affairs Development Production & Coproduction Content Rights Management ABC Suzy worked for several years as Senior Legal and Commercial Advisor at Polygram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures International in London, working across all audio-visual platforms, before returning to Oz to work with TV doco producers, Prospero Productions. Her latest lifestyle change has led her to the ABC, as Business Affairs Manager in various genres, across radio, new media and TV platforms and Asia-Pacific. Her interest in the new media environment commenced when she worked alongside Nick Jr establishing web selling opportunities of children's programming, and has extended now to both commercial and non-commercial online carriage opportunities." Julianne Pierce Executive Director ANAT Julianne Pierce is an artist, curator and interactive media producer. She is currently Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (http://www.anat.org.au). She is a founding member of the influential new media artists group VNS Matrix (http://www.sysx.org/vns), who exhibited widely in Australia and internationally from 1991-1997. She has curated several new media exibitions and events including CODE RED (ANAT and Performance Space, 1997), BIOMACHINES (Adelaide Festival, 2000) and SPECTRASCOPE (Sydney Biennalle, 2000). Julianne has produced the interactive title BAD CODE (computer game prototype, VNS Matrix, 1996) and the award-winning UNCLE BILL (http://unclebill.va.com.au, directed by Debra Petrovitch, 2000). Vicki Sowry Director Media Resource Centre Vicki Sowry has been active in the film and new media industries for over twelve years and is currently Director of the Media Resource Centre, an Adelaide-based organisation which provides practitioner development services to the South Australian screen industries. Ms Sowry also inputs to the broaders industry through her roles as Chair of Screen Development Australia and Chair of the Australian Network for Art and Technology. She has previously held positions at Metro Screen and the Australian Film Commission and has been a board member of Ngapartji Multimedia Centre, the South Australian Film Corporation, the Arts Industry Council and dLux Media Arts. David Tiley Accord Manager Digital Media Fund Film Victoria David Tiley has a background in film, particularly documentary. He currently works for Film Victoria's Digital Media Fund, where he manages the Accord programs with the ABC and SBS which support the production of content by the Victorian independent sector for the broadcasters website. Chris Warner AFC Broadband Content Fund Consultant AFC Chris Warner has been an independent Melbourne filmmaker for 26 years working as a writer, producer and director in both drama and documentary. His major credits include the mini-series IN BETWEEN (producer, co-director), THE MAGISTRATE (writer, co-producer) and QUEEN KAT, CARMEL & ST JUDE (producer) and the feature film CRACKERS (producer). Chris was Director of Film Development & Marketing at the AFC until May this year. He currently has a number of projects in development and is acting as a consultant to the AFC on the establishment of the Broadband Content Fund. Peter Wintonick filmmaker/producer/publisher, Montreal, Canada Necessary Illusions Productions, Inc. DigiDocs Conference co-chairman With more than twenty-five years as a 'professional', Wintonick has been a producer, director, incubator and editor of all manner of film, video and new-media. (An array which includes dramatic features, theatrical documentaries, television and educational film and video.) Wintonick is most noted for producing and directing (with Mark Achbar) MANUFACTURING CONSENT: Noam Chomsky and the Media, which he also edited. It is the most successful theatrically launched non-fiction feature in Canadian history (a winner of over 20 awards in 50 film festivals, which has been broadcast in many languages in two dozen countries.) Currently he is completing with Czech-Canadian filmmaker Katerina Cizek, SEEING is BELIEVING, a documentary which looks at the impact of handicams and new technologies on human rights activism, journalism and the news. He recently directed the multi-award winning CINEMA VERITE : DEFINING THE MOMENT about the history and contemporary legacy of the revolutionary movement. The film has played the world's festivals. Before he took the documentary vow of poverty twenty years ago, during his career in the more commercial film industry, Wintonick worked for some of the major movers, shakers (and snakes) in the Motion Picture Jungle. But since then, he has aided and abetted the development of many young independent filmmakers, ceaselessly acting as executive producer, editor and consultant on numerous projects. Currently editor of POV magazine, which highlights the business and art of independent and documentary film, Wintonick has written for (inter)National cinema magazines, has programmed the odd film festival, organized digital documentary conferences and panels, created a global internet site for independent film, The Virtual FilmFestival (1994-96 R.I.P.) and has taught University-level film. He was co-producer and co-director (with Patricia Tassinari) of a controversial documentary, The QUEBECANADA COMPLEX: Scenes from a Country 'on the couch' which is a pseudo-psychiatric look at the neurotic notion of the nation, identity and 'the other.' He was executive-producer/editor of Daniel Cross' THE STREET: a non-fiction feature made with 3 homeless Montrealers. With Barbara Doran he co-directed a cross-cultural docu-diary about images and stereotypes, "HO! KANADA" which follows a bus-load of Japanese tourists across Canada. In the 1980's Wintonick produced and directed THE NEW CINEMA, a video documentary about independent film. (Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival) He was the Canadian producer and postproduction coordinator for Peter Watkins' THE JOURNEY, a 14 hour megadocumentary series about nuclear peace, development and the media. He associate produced and editor Nettie Wild's A RUSTLING OF LEAVES: Inside the Philippine Revolution, and has worked with prolific documentarian Ron Mann as supervising editor and associate producer of POETRY IN MOTION and on Mann's off-beat COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL and TWIST. Wintonick is currently post-producing and developing several documentary works about UTOPIA, one on STORYTELLING and an international co-production, MAD MUNDO, a citizen-driven series and webplex on Globalization, in partnership with Paris-based Article Z. Wintonick is charismatic in the Canadian sense of the word. In other words, Canada is a country where understated irony is one of the major food groups. Like many of his fellow countrypersons, he has a socially just world-view, or perhaps he is just social. With a wet wit, he is unconsciously funny or funny when he's unconscious.
Prior to joining PBL Online, Kim was Head of Development for the Australian Multimedia Enterprise, an investment vehicle set up by the Federal Government to invest in and stimulate private investment in multimedia. Kim joined the AME in 1995 after returning to Australia from the US.
Prior to this, Kim had been with News Corp for seven years, where she was VP and Publishing Director of HarperCollins Interactive, based in New York. She was instrumental in establishing the Advanced Media Group, set up to integrate and work with the other News Corp companies in order to develop a new media strategy.
Originally based in Sydney as Non-fiction Publisher for HarperCollins, Kim has worked for a variety of book publishers and newspaper proprietors, including John Fairfax & Sons, Prentice Hall, Grolier and Kevin Weldon and Associates.
Kim has also lectured part time in Publishing at Macquarie University and has written for major newspapers and magazines, including the Sydney Morning Herald and PC World. She is on the board of the Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law at Melbourne University.
Chris Barker New Media Project Officer South Australian Film Corporation
Will Berryman Head of New Media SBS Will Berryman's career spans radio and television broadcasting, multimedia business development, computing and executive media management.
He was appointed as Head of SBS New Media at the beginning of 2000 to create and lead the new content division, alongside SBS Radio and SBS Television, and to combine and integrate multimedia content development the management of all SBS's information technology infrastructure.
Previously, as Director of Multimedia at Fox Studios Australia, Will Berryman designed and oversaw the development of the digital communication infrastructure at the studio and retail areas of the Moore Park complex. At Nickelodeon, the childrens' Pay-TV channel, he initiated international joint-ventures for the channel and established Australia's the most visited and successful children's website.
Will Berryman began reporting on digital technology and multimedia on the ABC's NewsRadio network in 1994, the first such specialist reports to appear on Australia media. In 1996, he won The Michael Daly Award for excellence in Science and Technology Journalism for his work on television.
Mark Cloudsdale General Manager Digital Content and Creative Services Seven Network Australia After studying Architecture, Mark completed a degree in Media and Psychology, and has worked in television production, promotions and marketing for over 20 years. During that time he created and ran a small advertising production house, developed numerous successful television campaigns for the Seven Network, directed network lifestyle programs, produced documentaries, and created on-air campaigns that have won Awards all over the world. As On-Air Advertising and Marketing Manager, he was one of the initiating team who so successfully have re-branded the Seven Network. Following the Networks successful Olympic Games, Mark targeted digital TV as his next challenge, and is now leading Seven's creative strategy for iTV content and implementation.
Anthony Coles Managing Director Empire Ridge Former direct marketing strategist, established Empire Ridge as a specialist internet marketing service provider in 1996. Team of consultants, project managers, programmers and designers providing strategy, creative and media services. - Australian Top 10 Interactive Agency, 2001. - President, (SA), Australian Marketing Institute "Because there's more to the web than building websites"
Heather Croall Senior Project Officer South Australian Film Corporation Heather Croall has worked as a documentary producer/director and a curator of film events for the last 12 years under her company Re Angle Pictures. Re Angle Pictures credits include documentary works commissioned by SBSi, ABC TV, SBS TV, Channel 4 U.K. and others. Heather’s award winning documentary, Paradise Bent, has played at international documentary festivals and sold to many territories in the world through Beyond International. Heather started a Film and New Media Studio with Virtual Artists P/L in 1994 - working on convergent projects and live streaming events put on by VA including Womadelaide’s Intertent in 1995. Heather founded the first ever film component in the Adelaide Fringe in 1994, “Shoot the Fringe”, and has run cinema programs and outdoor film events in the Adelaide Fringe & Adelaide Festival since that time. She was on the programming committee of the 1999 Adelaide Documentary Conference, and has been active member of many film, television and media events and organisations. Heather is currently the Senior Project Officer of Industry Development at the SAFC.
Judith Crombie Chief Executive Officer South Australian Film Corporation
Barry Crush Managing Director Underwater Research & Dev.P/L Documentary film-maker from 16mm to digital. Expertise is in Aboriginal personal stories and wildlife. Other areas are aviation, and underwater terain and creatures.
Sohail Dadhal Director Goldie Dadhal New Media Sohail Dahdal is a new media producer, interaction designer and software engineer, with experience in both the IT and film industry. This experience has put Sohail in a unique position to be a leading force in bridging the gap between the new forms of interactive multimedia and the traditional art of filmmaking. Sohail has produced, designed, or/and engineered hundreds of CD-ROMs and websites and continues to push the boundaries of information and communication technology.
Francesca da Rimini Artist Gashgirl Francesca da Rimini has been working in the field of new media since 1984 as an arts manager, film and video maker, curator, corporate geisha girl, cyberfeminist, poet, puppet mistress and ghost. Through her avatars GashGirl, dollyoko, LiQuiD_Nation she has investigated the creative potential of negotiated email relationships, virtual communities and new narrative architectures, reverse engineering her experiences into multiple immaterialities, poems and personas. This research crystallised in various collaborations including a novel FleshMeat, the pond of dead girls in dollspace, a counter spectre to globalisation in Los Días y Las Noches de los Muertos and identity_runners fracturing of the mass, consensual hallucination of command and control.
In 1999, Francesca was the recipient of a New Media Fund Fellowship to explore quantum physics and indigenous knowledge systems. This has drawn her into the current realities surrounding Aboriginal land rights and protection of culture, Australian environmental and activist movements and Big Daddy Mainframe's extensive tentacles into the nuclear, military and mining industries.
In August 2001 Francesca was invited to Hong Kong to undertake an artist residency at Videotage. In October 2001 her online work received critical acclaim at Next Wave Down Under at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In April 2002 her net art projects will be exhibited in the San Paolo Biennale, Brazil.
Many of Francesca's online projects, texts and interviews squat the screens at System-X - http://sysx.org/gashgirl/.
Daryl Dellora Documentary Consultant SBS Independent Daryl Dellora is currently the SBS Independent (Documentary) Consultant in Melbourne. He has made many documentaries for television and recently wrote the documentary film "Harvest of a Quiet Eye" about landscape designer, author and photographer Edna Walling. This project produced by Tantamount Productions represents the first time that a documentary film has been conceived at the same time as, and in conjunction with, a web site. The web site is now up and running and the documentary film is in development.
Sara Diamond Artistic Director MVA / Executive Producer Television and New Media Coproductions Banff New Media Institute DigiDocs Conference co-chairman Sara Diamond is a television and new media producer/director, video artist, curator, critic, teacher and artistic director. She was born in New York City and has resided in Western Canada since 1978. She is currently the Executive Producer for Television and New Media and the Artistic Director of Media and Visual Arts at the Banff Centre.
Diamond is responsible for developing the artistic and professional development direction of MVA, developing research perspectives, Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) events, co-productions, artists' residencies and partnerships, and workstudy opportunities. She is also responsible for the publishing initiatives of MVA and the Walter Phillips Gallery as well as collaborations with the Aboriginal Arts Program and other departments. Among her accomplishments at the Centre, Diamond developed and implemented artist based video practice, television co-productions of artists' works in video and video installation support. She has continued a series of strong thematic residencies in MVA for visual artists, as well as new works programs.
As Executive Producer, Diamond has been involved in over one hundred and thirty video and interactive media projects. She also created the Banff New Media Institute, which offers a year long series of think tanks, summits and workshops and is responsible for BNMI fundraising and partnerships. She created a prototype development environment for interactive media projects and continues to curate one or two major exhibitions each year. The exhibitions usually relate, or involve, interactive media components and a thematic creative residency running at the Centre. Diamond is also a key contributor and creator of the New Media Focus strand of programming, which runs each year at the prestigious Banff Television Festival.
Her videotapes have been screened all over the world. In 1992, Diamond was honoured with a retrospective exhibition and catalogue at the National Gallery of Canada, following a retrospective at the 1991 IMAGES Festival in Toronto and a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has had many solo exhibitions including Patternity, an installation commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery, which is now in the permanent collection of the National Gallery. She was awarded the Gold Medal in History by Simon Fraser University in 1990 and has won awards from the Canada Council, British Columbia Film, British Columbia Culture and various others. One of her most recent honours is the 1995 Bell Canada Award for excellence in video. She was nominated British Columbia Woman of the Year and is included in Canada's Who's Who. She is currently working on Code Zebra, a project that links artists and scientists in live and virtual events and through software.
As a teacher and lecturer, Diamond leads workshops, lectures and short courses for many post-secondary institutions and art centers. For more than eight years she served as faculty in studio and critical studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. She has also taught at the Capilano College Labour Studies Program and the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California and the prestigious UCLA Design/Media program. She speaks at international multimedia industry conferences, consults with the communications industry on issues of content and delivery and is a regular presenter, curator and consultant for artists' new media events. She is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and has been named as one of Alberta's fifty most influential people by Venture Alberta.
Diamond writes for diverse publications and anthologies on the history of video art, current issues in new technologies, sexuality and censorship, and social history. She has recently completed a history of computer arts in Western Canada and is writing a text on French theory, new media and North American cultural analysis. She chaired the tri-national arts panel between Mexico, Canada and the US, has sat on many boards, and has served on numerous juries. She was a representative on the federal task force on training for the cultural sector and an alternate on the task force on the rights of the artist, a consultant to the Minister of Canadian Heritage on new media and serves on the Cultural Industries Sectoral Advisory on Trade Secretariat.
Recently, she has consulted with Brazilian, Cuban, French and other international environments to present interactive media seminars, conferences and exhibitions and served on the l998 and 2001 SIGGRAPH panels committees. She currently sits on several Ph.D. thesis committees for the University of Calgary and is a member of the advisory council for the development of the Technical University of BC. Diamond is also an Adjunct Professor to the Department of Design at UCLA. She has recently been writer in residency at the University of Surrey in the UK and is undertaking research with that institution and the London Institute.
She continues to lead research in collaborative work and is also currently leading research in advanced design of visualization environments, cross-disciplinary research and media convergence. She is Principle Investigator on the Human Centered Interface Project, Out of the Box and Code Zebra. She contributes to peer review journals in the fields of Media and Communications Studies and sits on the editorial board of peer review journals. She is currently co-editing and editing publications about art and science, living architecture. A book of her writings will be published in the UK in 2002.
Domenic Friguglietti Manager Commissioning and Co-Productions ABC New Media ABC Domenic currently holds the position of Manager Commissioning and Co-productions with ABC New Media. He is primarily responsible for managing the Division's commissioning process and co-developing production proposals involving the independent production sector and other strategic partners. Domenic is also responsible for managing the new media production Accord with Film Victoria and the Documentary Online initiative with the Australian Film Commission. Additionally, Domenic's responsibilities include liaising with the Content Rights Division on matters pertaining to rights and other business affairs.
Domenic was the first staffer to be engaged in 1996 by the then ABC Multimedia department in the Victorian office. Prior to joining, Domenic worked as a project manager for ABC International Development and has also held positions with Radio Australia and Radio National.
Marcus Gillezeau Executive Producer Firelight Productions
Kim Gleeson New Media Producer UDHR
Kim Gleeson is an independent writer, director and producer who has worked on theatre, documentary and new media projects for the last 10 years. Documentary Credits include "Marngrook, the History of Aboriginal Footballers in the Australian Football League" produced by CAAMA Productions and screened by the Seven Network , "In a Nutshell, Cross Cultural Communications in the Workplace" for the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and various documentary projects for the Victorian Education Department and other state and federal government agencies.In 1998, Kim created a major human rights internet site called the Universal Rights Network at www.universalrights.net with funding from Cinemedia/Film Victoria to promote the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The site was a semi-finalist in the Australian Internet Awards, a Finalist, in the Australian Human Rights Awards, and is now linked by over 200 other sites in some 30 countries. Linking sites include a number of United Nations Agencies such as the UN Library, UNICEF, UNHCHR and the UNDP.Kim has maintained the site for the last 3 years posting human rights stories from around the world. Most recently Kim wrote a series of stories about young peoples concerns for the 2002 Victorian Youth Strategy.
David Goldie Director Goldie Dadhal New Media It's estimated that more than 20 million Australian viewers have been drawn to the screen by David Goldie’s documentary specials. With AFI, Human Rights, Logies and international awards, David Goldie is one of Australia's most enduring and popular documentary filmmakers. His noted successes have been with longitudinal series: Nobody's Children, The Big House & Spirit 2000; and more recently Australians at War. A year ago David joined forces with new media expert Sohail Dahdal to produce one of Australia's first totally interactive online documentaries.
A J Hipster Regional Assistance Program South Australian Film Corporation
Suzie Hoban New Media Project Officer SBS
Chris Joyner Regional Assistance Program South Australian Film Corporation
Peter Kaufmann Project Manager Film Development Australian Film Commission Peter Kaufmann is a producer of drama and documentary with credits including the ABC/AFC Microdance series, INSATIABLE with composer and director David Chesworth and the documentary ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS. He has also worked in film programming and exhibition as director of the St.Kilda Film Festival and Exhibition Manager at the Australian Film Institute.
Kate Kennedy White New Media Producer Kate Kennedy White combines her skills as an educator, social planner, television producer and online strategist to develop and implement communication strategies and solutions. She has held senior executive production and management positions for MSN.COM Australia, Network TEN, and the Nine Network and created screeenexchange.com, the world's largest online media distribution company. Most recently she produced the Peoplescape Concert, live televised finale celebration for the Centenary of Federation.
David Lane ABC New Media Regional Editor ABC Current Responsibilities include editorial reference point for New Media Arts, Education, Backyard (Local Radio), Radio National, Radio Australia and Classic FM content production, input into ABC New Media's content commissioning process, development of the ABC New Media / ABC Radio relationship and line manager for New Media production staff located in South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. Prior work includes producer of the ABC's Federation Gateway and associated sites, producer of the ABC Online's community publishing pilot project, Australians Online, script consultant on multimedia projects, including Unearthed, Mabo and The Good Cook, 15 years in radio, devising researching, producing, presenting talk radio and current affairs programs on ABC and public radio and media lecturer and trainer - Australia (Swinburne) and overseas (South Africa and Tonga).
Susan MacKinnon Documentary Investment Manager Film Finance Corporation Susan MacKinnon worked as an independent producer for eleven years. She won many awards and gained international acclaim for her documentaries. Her most recent film was the very popular short drama, FETCH, which has screened in over fifty world festivals, including official competition at Cannes. Among her successful documentaries are - ETERNITY; LOADED - THE GUN LOVERS; YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, DINNER FOR SIX, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIGHT AND REFLECTION and MEN AND THEIR SHEDS.
Presently Susan is the documentary investment manager at the Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC) where she assists filmmakers in negotiating finances for their documentaries. The FFC is a wholly owned Commonwealth government organisation that provides equity finance to the Australian independent production sector for feature films, television drama and documentaries.
Susan is on the board of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), is a founding member of the Australian Documentary Foundation and a member of the Hot Doc's International Advisory Council in Toronto.
Sue McCauley Designer/Developer Sue McCauley is a multimedia producer, lecturer in multimedia at Victoria University and curator. Sue is currently the Digital Arts Curator/ Producer for the Next Wave Festival 2002. In 1999 - 2000 she co-ordinated the Digital Arts program for the Next Wave Festival and was the Producer, Concept Developer and Project Manager of the ABC/Cinemedia Accord online project "Fest on the Net" (http://arts.abc.net.au/netfest) She curated and presented the Fusion multimedia program of the St Kilda Film Festival in 1999, 2000 and 2001. She is currently developing a program of Performance and Multimedia for the St Kilda Film Festival 2002.
Suzy Peters Manager, Non Fiction Business Affairs Development Production & Coproduction Content Rights Management ABC Suzy worked for several years as Senior Legal and Commercial Advisor at Polygram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures International in London, working across all audio-visual platforms, before returning to Oz to work with TV doco producers, Prospero Productions. Her latest lifestyle change has led her to the ABC, as Business Affairs Manager in various genres, across radio, new media and TV platforms and Asia-Pacific. Her interest in the new media environment commenced when she worked alongside Nick Jr establishing web selling opportunities of children's programming, and has extended now to both commercial and non-commercial online carriage opportunities."
Julianne Pierce Executive Director ANAT Julianne Pierce is an artist, curator and interactive media producer. She is currently Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (http://www.anat.org.au). She is a founding member of the influential new media artists group VNS Matrix (http://www.sysx.org/vns), who exhibited widely in Australia and internationally from 1991-1997. She has curated several new media exibitions and events including CODE RED (ANAT and Performance Space, 1997), BIOMACHINES (Adelaide Festival, 2000) and SPECTRASCOPE (Sydney Biennalle, 2000). Julianne has produced the interactive title BAD CODE (computer game prototype, VNS Matrix, 1996) and the award-winning UNCLE BILL (http://unclebill.va.com.au, directed by Debra Petrovitch, 2000).
Vicki Sowry Director Media Resource Centre Vicki Sowry has been active in the film and new media industries for over twelve years and is currently Director of the Media Resource Centre, an Adelaide-based organisation which provides practitioner development services to the South Australian screen industries. Ms Sowry also inputs to the broaders industry through her roles as Chair of Screen Development Australia and Chair of the Australian Network for Art and Technology. She has previously held positions at Metro Screen and the Australian Film Commission and has been a board member of Ngapartji Multimedia Centre, the South Australian Film Corporation, the Arts Industry Council and dLux Media Arts.
David Tiley Accord Manager Digital Media Fund Film Victoria David Tiley has a background in film, particularly documentary. He currently works for Film Victoria's Digital Media Fund, where he manages the Accord programs with the ABC and SBS which support the production of content by the Victorian independent sector for the broadcasters website.
Chris Warner AFC Broadband Content Fund Consultant AFC Chris Warner has been an independent Melbourne filmmaker for 26 years working as a writer, producer and director in both drama and documentary. His major credits include the mini-series IN BETWEEN (producer, co-director), THE MAGISTRATE (writer, co-producer) and QUEEN KAT, CARMEL & ST JUDE (producer) and the feature film CRACKERS (producer). Chris was Director of Film Development & Marketing at the AFC until May this year. He currently has a number of projects in development and is acting as a consultant to the AFC on the establishment of the Broadband Content Fund.
Peter Wintonick filmmaker/producer/publisher, Montreal, Canada Necessary Illusions Productions, Inc. DigiDocs Conference co-chairman With more than twenty-five years as a 'professional', Wintonick has been a producer, director, incubator and editor of all manner of film, video and new-media. (An array which includes dramatic features, theatrical documentaries, television and educational film and video.) Wintonick is most noted for producing and directing (with Mark Achbar) MANUFACTURING CONSENT: Noam Chomsky and the Media, which he also edited. It is the most successful theatrically launched non-fiction feature in Canadian history (a winner of over 20 awards in 50 film festivals, which has been broadcast in many languages in two dozen countries.) Currently he is completing with Czech-Canadian filmmaker Katerina Cizek, SEEING is BELIEVING, a documentary which looks at the impact of handicams and new technologies on human rights activism, journalism and the news.
He recently directed the multi-award winning CINEMA VERITE : DEFINING THE MOMENT about the history and contemporary legacy of the revolutionary movement. The film has played the world's festivals. Before he took the documentary vow of poverty twenty years ago, during his career in the more commercial film industry, Wintonick worked for some of the major movers, shakers (and snakes) in the Motion Picture Jungle. But since then, he has aided and abetted the development of many young independent filmmakers, ceaselessly acting as executive producer, editor and consultant on numerous projects.
Currently editor of POV magazine, which highlights the business and art of independent and documentary film, Wintonick has written for (inter)National cinema magazines, has programmed the odd film festival, organized digital documentary conferences and panels, created a global internet site for independent film, The Virtual FilmFestival (1994-96 R.I.P.) and has taught University-level film. He was co-producer and co-director (with Patricia Tassinari) of a controversial documentary, The QUEBECANADA COMPLEX: Scenes from a Country 'on the couch' which is a pseudo-psychiatric look at the neurotic notion of the nation, identity and 'the other.' He was executive-producer/editor of Daniel Cross' THE STREET: a non-fiction feature made with 3 homeless Montrealers. With Barbara Doran he co-directed a cross-cultural docu-diary about images and stereotypes, "HO! KANADA" which follows a bus-load of Japanese tourists across Canada. In the 1980's Wintonick produced and directed THE NEW CINEMA, a video documentary about independent film. (Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival) He was the Canadian producer and postproduction coordinator for Peter Watkins' THE JOURNEY, a 14 hour megadocumentary series about nuclear peace, development and the media. He associate produced and editor Nettie Wild's A RUSTLING OF LEAVES: Inside the Philippine Revolution, and has worked with prolific documentarian Ron Mann as supervising editor and associate producer of POETRY IN MOTION and on Mann's off-beat COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL and TWIST. Wintonick is currently post-producing and developing several documentary works about UTOPIA, one on STORYTELLING and an international co-production, MAD MUNDO, a citizen-driven series and webplex on Globalization, in partnership with Paris-based Article Z. Wintonick is charismatic in the Canadian sense of the word. In other words, Canada is a country where understated irony is one of the major food groups. Like many of his fellow countrypersons, he has a socially just world-view, or perhaps he is just social. With a wet wit, he is unconsciously funny or funny when he's unconscious.
