About
2024 Judges
Louis Nowra
Playwright, screenwriter & author
Louis Nowra was born in Melbourne. He is the author of such plays as Inner Voices, Visions, Inside The Island, Sunrise, The Golden Age, Capricornia, Byzantine Flowers, The Watchtower , Summer Of The Aliens, Cosi, Radiance, The Temple, Crow, The Incorruptible, The Jungle, The Language Of The Gods And The Boyce Trilogy. He has written the non-fiction works The Cheated, Warne‘s World, Walkabout, Chihuahuas, Women And Me (Essays), Bad Dreaming, Kings Cross, A Biography and its companion volume, Woolloomooloo, A Biography. His fiction includes The Misery Of Beauty, Palu, Red Nights, Abaza, Ice, Into That Forest And Prince Of Afghanistan. His memoirs are The Twelfth Of Never And Shooting The Moon. Some of his radio plays include Albert Names Edward, The Song Room, Sydney, The Divine Hammer, Far North, Jez and the Light of Darkness.He was the principal writer of the documentary series First Australians and created the TV series The Last Resort and The Straits.
Besides writing libretti and the telemovies Displaced Persons, Hunger and The Lizard King, his screen credits includeMap Of The Human Heart, Cosi, Heaven’s Burning, The Matchmaker, Radiance, K-19: The Widowmaker And Black And White. He lives in Sydney and is married to the writer Mandy Sayer.
Jack Brislee
Writer
Jack Brislee is a Sydney based writer. He has a wide range of writing interests, including historical dramas, biographies, crime stories, sporting stories and comedy.
For six years he taught screen dialogue twice a year in Karel Segers’ screenwriting seminars.
He was commissioned to write Maryang San, and Bratva, and to co-write Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan.
Danger Close is Australia’s biggest budget war movie. It was released in 2019 and received 4-star reviews.
Jack has completed 18 other screenplays, two plays and one novel.
Jack is an active member of the Australian Writers’ Guild and is the current chair of the AWG New South Wales Membership Committee.
When not writing Jack is involved in property development and motel broking through his company, Pacific Rim Business Brokers Pty Limited.
SOPHIA CHRISTOPHER
COMPOSER
A passionate collaborator, Sophia is a multi-instrumentalist and talented vocalist who combines a deep love of storytelling with musical experimentation, and an innate sense of curiosity to find the unique musical fingerprint for each project she works on. Her musical versatility sees her shine in contemporary music with a foundation in traditional film scoring narrative techniques.
She has a Masters in Film Scoring from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying Songwriting and Music Production, where she was awarded a highly contested scholarship.
Sophia’s unique musical versatility and passion for storytelling and collaboration sees her as one of Australia’s most exciting screen music composers with a healthy 2023 composing slate spanning film, documentaries, TV, and stage/film musicals.
Thomas Duncan-Watt
Screenwriter
Thomas Duncan-Watt is a three-time AWGIE Award winning screenwriter and show runner who has worked across genres. Starting his career as a comedy writer on shows like Good News Week and Newsjack, his screen credits include episodes of the Emmy Award-winning Beat Bugs for Netflix, The Deep for the ABC, Winston Steinburger for Teletoon, and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher for the BBC, where one of his scripts earned the show its first ever BAFTA nomination.
In 2018 Thomas earned his first Head Writer role on Space Nova, a 26×1/2 hour animated sci-fi series that has already won the AWGIE award two years running for ‘Best Animated Script’, as well as winning ‘Best Animated Series’ at the AACA Awards and being nominated for SPA and AACTA awards.
Currently, Thomas is working on Space Nova’s planned second season, while developing an original series with a US team that includes Emmy-Award winning director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Crown). He has also recently become a freelance screenwriter on the iconic Australian serial, Home and Away.
Megan Riakos
Screenwriter & Director
Megan is a dynamic filmmaker bringing a distinctive female lens to genre filmmaking. Her debut feature CRUSHED received strong reviews, with The Australian calling it “a tense, bloody mystery thriller,” and The Hollywood Reporter labelling it “a solid debut.” She created Australia’s first all-female horror anthology, DARK WHISPERS – VOL 1, praised by Killer Horror Critic as “a shining example of horror anthology film done right.” Megan wrote and directed an episode of DEADHOUSE DARK, which premiered at Canneseries, was distributed as a Shudder Original, and earned her an Australian Directors’ Guild award nomination.
Megan’s screenplays have also garnered acclaim. THE LAST REPRIEVE won the Grand Prize in the Greater Philadelphia SIP Screenplay competition, and her political drama VICTORY AND DEFEAT was a semi-finalist in Final Draft Big Break.
Megan is an AFTRS directing graduate and has completed the Professional Screenwriters Program at UCLA. She is the founder of Hemlock & Cedar Films, focusing on dark genre projects that amplify female voices.
Megan is also a consultant and teacher with an infectious enthusiasm for the art and craft of filmmaking and has taught at UNSW, AFTRS, QUT, NIDA and ACA amongst others.
Find out more on Megan’s website.
Alan Nurthen
Actor, Writer, Producer & Director
Alan trained at New Theatre and then spent the next eight years performing in a variety of film and television productions before starting his own acting school, the Screen Actors Workshop, in 1988.
In 1991 Alan was one of only nine industry professionals chosen for the first Industry Program Advanced Screen Directors Certificate course at AFTRS.
Since then, Alan has produced and directed over sixty short films, numerous corporate videos for clients as diverse as MYOB and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, along with the international hit documentaries, Funnel Webs (7 Network; Beyond Distribution) and Boomers and Slackers (GDTV South Africa.)
Alan has trained numerous Gold and Silver Logie winning actors, and his production students have won some of Sydney’s most prestigious film festivals, including Tropfest (twice) and The Short Black Film Festival.
The Screen Actors Workshop won Outstanding Educational Service at the Small Business Awards in 2010 and again in 2012, further recognition for Alan’s passion for training brave and creative screen actors for the Australian film and television industry.
Alan is currently working in front of the camera again, playing the bad guy Josefa the Intoner in director Greg Perano’s second feature film, Prufrock & Co.
Find out more at Screen Actor’s Workshop.
Pieter de Vries
ACS Director of Photography
From the heights of the Space Shuttle to the depths of the North Atlantic ocean, from ancient land turtles on the Galapagos Islands to sublime performances of the music of Vivaldi, travelling through ninety five countries, internationally recognised cinematographer Pieter de Vries has been there with his camera.
He has received world-wide recognition and numerous awards for his cinematography which has featured on NBC, BBC, History, Discovery and National Geographic Channels, ZDF Germany, NZBC and ABC Australia.
As an ACS accredited Director of Photography, Pieter has reached the highest levels of his craft. He has been a recipient of the Australian Cinematographer of the Year Award, and for his photography of National Geographic documentaries, received an Emmy nomination. He as contributed to much loved programs hosted by David Attenborough and collaborated with Canadian director James Cameron filming the wreck of the Titanic in IMAX 3D.
His current project is a feature documentary, “Women in Blues” — the story of the Mississippi Delta music and the women who sing the blues, being filmed in Chicago, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Find out more on Pieter’s website.
Anthony Montes
Actor, Writer, Producer & Teacher
Anthony is an Actor, Writer, Producer, Acting Coach and Teacher and Father, and the Founder and Artistic Director of The Artist Theatre Group. With his group he has produced 90 plays, acted in over 60 and directed over 30. He has published 13 books available on amazon.com. In the past 1.5 years, he has written and starred in two feature films, The Last Night Inn and The Last Train, in which he also stars. He has also written/directed/produced and starred in his one-man show, Outta The Darkness Into The Light.
He is the Founder of The Montes Method acting technique.
Anthony also worked on Playhouse for James Franco, as well as acted in Holy Land, which James Franco wrote and produced.
Anthony continues to teach with The Artist Theatre Group as well as Internationally where he has taught in, Mumbai, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Istanbul, Mexico City and Cape Town. He would like to make his way to Australia to teach as well. He also teaches for James Franco’s Studio 4 in LA. For over three years he taught acting to inner city kids as well as kids in juvenile hall. His hope is to continue teaching and putting up theatre with an ensemble of actors, living truthfully under the imaginary circumstances. His desire is to continue to encourage actors to take control of their destinies. Anthony is also on the judging committee for Mini Cinema TV.
Subscribe & join Anthony for videos on acting and inspirational quotes on his YouTube channel and on IGTV @MontesMethod. Also check out his website.
Ros Gentle
Actor & Teacher
Ros Gentle was born in a tiny country town called Gulgong in NSW, Australia. She studied music during her childhood but started her professional life working as a primary school teacher in Sydney while singing in folk clubs and wine bars at night. While studying acting to help with performance she discovered her true calling and went back to school. As a graduate of the National Institute for Dramatic Art www.nida.edu.au with a BDA from NSW Uni Ros now has 40+ years of experience in all areas of the performing arts including coaching, producing and directing. Her theatre credits include Grey Nomads, The Sum of Us, Big River, The Wizard of Oz, All’s well That Ends Well, Othello, Bitter Sweet, The Seagull, Escape From Happiness and The Arab Israeli Cookbook along with four one woman shows: The Bridal Suite, Face of an Angel, The Ladychapel and Still Life.
In Australia Ros worked predominantly in television appearing in such shows as Picnic at Hanging Rock, Neighbours, Home and Away, GP, Mother and Son, A Country Practice, Land of Hope, Young Doctors and The Restless Years to name a few. She is probably best remembered as one of the most outrageous characters ever to appear in the cult TV drama Prisoner (Cell Block H), playing multiple personality, Laura Gardiner, a shy librarian by day but a tough-talking prostitute, Brandy Carter, by night.
Residing in the Los Angeles now for 30 years Ros has appeared most recently on television in S.W.A.T, The Young and the Restless, High Desert, Dahmer, American Horror Story, Our Flag Means Death, Wild West Chronicles as well as ACS: People Vs OJ Simpson, Lucifer, Agent X, and Hello Ladies. She will soon be seen in the new Shondaland/Netflix comedy series playing Australian media tycoon Rachel Middlekauff in the soon-to-be-released The Residence.
Upcoming films include Nightbitch with Amy Adams, Unsung Hero, Under the Surface and Bring Her to Me. Other films include Unborn, Of the Devil, Tomorrow’s Game, Becoming Bond and Suing the Devil with Malcolm McDowell.
While her love is acting, Ros’ passion is helping to create a better world for future generations. She has been teaching acting and Psychology of Performance at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles for the past 12 years.
Stephanie Pringle
Casting Director & Owner of Chicken & Chips Casting
Steph and Al, co-founders of Chicken and Chips Casting, bring a unique approach to the casting process. Renowned as multi-format casting directors in advertising, TV, and film, they are dedicated to fostering collaboration among directors, producers, and actors.
Recent achievements include the success of the Australian thriller Birdeater (SXSW 2024 & SFF People’s Choice Winner 2023), 2024 AACTA Nominated for Best Indie Film A Savage Christmas, the 2021 AACTA Award-winning Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt), Cannes Series-selected Deadhouse Dark and the anticipated My Eyes starring Adam Garcia & Tsushan Chambers, along with a string of shorts that have garnered top tier international and local film festival success.
Known for their fresh and frank casting style, Steph and Al create a safe and innovative environment for directors and producers, challenging them to think differently. The duo have earned a reputation for advocating on-screen diversity and leave no stone unturned when it comes to discovering talent and piecing together exciting ensembles.
Beyond their work with directors and producers, Steph and Al are strong believers in providing grassroots opportunities for actors. They offer accessible resources and workshops to demystify the casting process, making their audition room the most fun in the biz.
Contact:
stephanie@chickenandchips.com.
Insta – @itsstephaniepringle // @chickenandchips_
Twitter – @misspringle88
Facebook – Chicken and Chips Casting
Alison Fowler
Casting Director & Owner of Chicken & Chips Casting
Steph and Al, co-founders of Chicken and Chips Casting, bring a unique approach to the casting process. Renowned as multi-format casting directors in advertising, TV, and film, they are dedicated to fostering collaboration among directors, producers, and actors.
Recent achievements include the success of the Australian thriller Birdeater (SXSW 2024 & SFF People’s Choice Winner 2023), 2024 AACTA Nominated for Best Indie Film A Savage Christmas, the 2021 AACTA Award-winning Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt), Cannes Series-selected Deadhouse Dark and the anticipated My Eyes starring Adam Garcia & Tsushan Chambers, along with a string of shorts that have garnered top tier international and local film festival success.
Known for their fresh and frank casting style, Steph and Al create a safe and innovative environment for directors and producers, challenging them to think differently. The duo have earned a reputation for advocating on-screen diversity and leave no stone unturned when it comes to discovering talent and piecing together exciting ensembles.
Beyond their work with directors and producers, Steph and Al are strong believers in providing grassroots opportunities for actors. They offer accessible resources and workshops to demystify the casting process, making their audition room the most fun in the biz.
Find out more about Alison and Chicken & Chips casting on their website.
YOLANDI FRANKEN
PRODUCER
Yolandi (NSW JP) is a seasoned Film and TV Producer, contributing to the industry since the turn of the century. With four feature films, a two-part documentary series, and two TV series to her credit, Yolandi has earned acclaim and festival awards, including nominations for the 2024 AACTA and SPA Awards for Streets of Colour. Active in Women in Film & Television (WIFT) Australia, she serves as the NSW Board Member and previous secretary. Yolandi founded and directed the Cause Film Festival for three years and currently works with Screen Producers Australia as an event producer. As Editor in Chief for Film Central Magazine, her influence extends beyond production. In 2015, she was nominated for Australian of the Year, recognising her impactful community contributions.
Joe Ochman
Actor
Joe Ochman has acted professionally in films, television, stage, commercials, video
games, animation, anime and recorded books for over thirty years. For a TV-addicted, movie-cartoon-avid-reading-comic-book-sci-fi freak, it’s been the perfect way to make a living.
On TV, Joe has guest starred on Bones on Fox, Showtime’s House of Lies and Weeds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior for CBS and Best Friends Whenever on Disney Channel. Joe recurred as a guest star on CSI and Sleeper Cell. He has shown up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lois & Clark, Seinfeld, Will & Grace, House, West Wing, NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives, That’s My Bush and many others. He recurs on the animated series Doc McStuffins and Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir.
In film, he has worked on Joker, Blumhouse’s Truth Or Dare and The Purge:Anarchy, Never Been Kissed, Space Jam, and a bunch of indie films: Saving Lincoln, House of the Rising Sun, Black And Blue and Donald And Dot Clock Found Dead In Their Home, among others. Recent animated films include the Oscar-nominated Ernest &; Celestine and the National Film Award winning Delhi Safari. His voice can be heard in 2019’s Oscar-winning short documentary Period. End Of Sentence.
In the gaming world, Joe had the honor of voicing Jiminy Cricket in Kingdom Hearts 3 and 2.5 Remix. He voiced William Price in Life Is Strange, voiced AND motion-captured Professor MacDougall in Red Dead Redemption and its Undead Nightmare DLC. He also voiced various roles in Final Fantasy VII Remake, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, World of
Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth, Fallout 4, Dishonored 2, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, The Evil Within, Diablo III, and many more.
Joe’s voice has been heard in diverse roles all over the anime universe, in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Hunter x Hunter, Kengan Ashura, Digimon, Naruto, Mobile Suit Gundam, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Wolf’s Rain, Cowboy Beebop, Mon Colle Knights and many, many more.
The stage has always been Joe’s first love, though, and he has fulfilled that romance in dozens of plays as actor and award-winning director. He also writes for film and TV, and coaches acting to an eclectic celebrity clientele (including Guardians Of The Galaxy’s Dave Bautista).
IMDB PAGE http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643703/?ref_=sr_1
TWITTER: @joeochman
FACEBOOK: joeochmanactor
Anthony Kierann
Producer
Anthony is currently the Chief Operating Officer of one of Australia’s leading performing arts institutions, Actors Centre Australia. Anthony is an Ambassador and Jury member for SF3 Smartphone Film Festival; he sits on the Board of Directors for Australia’s Largest Film Festival, The Alliance Franchise French Film Festival. Recently Anthony launched a new Teachers Academy with a Global partner partnered with ACA.
Anthony worked as the General Manager of Australia’s Number one film location at Event Cinemas George Street. Winning a company award across New Zealand, Germany and Australia. Subsequently Anthony moved further into Film Exhibition, programming, creating initiatives and programs within Event Cinemas nationally. As General Manager of Film Festivals, Australian Cinema and Programs, Anthony created programs such as the popular National In the House program hosted by Jabba Davis and David Quinn, Niche505, Outta The Box, Hollywood Classics, JFF Fringe and The Artists Room conversation series in collaboration with Screen NSW and AFTRS with Phillip Noyce, Gillian Armstrong, David Wenham and other Australian industry artists, hosted by Margaret Pomeranz and Luke Buckmaster.
Anthony championed Event Cinemas co-sponsorship of the inaugural Create NSW 360 Virtual Reality Film Conference. He has a passion for community, developing partnerships, growth opportunities for emerging filmmakers and festival expansion. He initiated the Award for Best Short Screenplay Award for Mardi Gras Film Festival – My Queer Career, the Best Australian Short Screenplay award with Sydney Film Festival, and award partnerships with South Australian Screen Association, Tropfest Kids and most recently ACA partnerships with SWIFF, My Queer Career, Northern Territory Arts, Bus Stop Films, WIFT, Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival. Festival groups Anthony has closely worked with include some of the largest and culturally prominent, Adelaide Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Russian Film Festival, Mardi Gras Film Festival, Japanese Film Festival, Winda International Indigenous Film Festival, SF3 Film Festival, Documentary Foundation Australia, Gold Coast Film Festival, Queer Fest, International Adelaide Kids Film Festival, Monster Fest and the Jewish Film Festival.
Anthony has been a Short Film jury member for AACTA, Gold Coast Film Festival SIPFEST, SF3, a keynote speaker at NSW Public Schools Film Festival symposium and was on the advisory panel for the City of Sydney Council for three years.
Anthony implemented the ACA Masterclass series working with Samantha Lang, Kriv Stenders, Damon Herriman, Alex Proyas, Monica Zanetti, Rosie Lourde, and Joanna Murray Smith. ACA on the road, taking Master classes around the country to regional and other areas allowing the community to experience Actors Centre training. Anthony produced the ACA “in Conversation” series with guests Hugh Jackman, Scott Hicks, Georgia Parker, David Wenham, Susan Prior and other industry guests. West End Pictures a new film program came to life furthering film collaborations with ACA hosted by film critic Garry Maddox. Collaborative associations with writers, directors, producers, and industry organisations have been included within ACA corridors.
In collaboration with Bus Stop Films, and supported by the Australian Government, a new devised acting program for people living with disability is a welcome addition to ACA. The program is workshopped and designed by ACA teachers in collaboration with Bus Stop Films students, culminating with a public performance.
Roxanne Prophet
Filmmaker
Roxanne Prophet was born in Nairobi Kenya and has been fortunate to live in some beautiful and stimulating places across the globe. She discovered her love of film at a young age and when she was 16 she started volunteering on any film set that would take her. She officially started her career at Rural Media as a trainee for a lottery-funded project called Shoot Out. She travelled the English and Welsh countryside shooting films about community and teaching teenagers how to make films. She developed lasting relationships with these young creatives and has enjoyed watching them mould their careers and inspire others as she did. Since then she has always had a passion for community-run and community action films.
Roxanne received a First Class Honours Media Arts Degree majoring in Producing from Royal Holloway, University of London. She initiated and ran a film society that now runs a film festival every year.
Straight out of University she landed a coveted Talent Management position at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) in London. Here she worked on movies such as The Martian, Spectre, Star Wars The Force Awakens, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Deepwater Horizon, Doctor Strange and Star Wars; Rogue One. At ILM she achieved one of her life’s ambitions, being part of a Star Wars movie!
Roxanne is now an Artist Manager at Animal Logic. She has the opportunity to hire and manage all the wonderfully creative and astonishingly talented people who make animated family features like the Lego Movies and Peter Rabbit.
In her spare time, she runs Film Championships, a small online community motivating filmmakers around the world. She creates short and inspiring challenges that are designed for anyone to try, professional and amateur alike. The challenges are specifically time restricted to encourage a focus on the theme and creation of a finished product.
Currently, she is now taking on the biggest challenge of her life: breaking a Guinness World Record in film! She hopes to create a 75min feature that breaks the “Highest Body Count in a Slasher Movie”.
Callum Pritchard
Student Filmmaker
Callum Pritchard is a filmmaker and student from Melbourne. Having only just graduated from Year 12 in 2020, Callum has moved on to pursue his passion by studying Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology.
Callum has maintained a relationship with SF3 in recent years, first entering the competition in 2016 with a shortlisted film in SF3 Kids. The following years his short films ‘Behind Closed Doors’ and ‘Forgive Me’ were selected as the winner of SF3 Kids, with the latter even being chosen for the Official Selection Gala Event and winning runner up for Best Cinematography. He has always prided himself on the mature themes inn his films despite being so young, such as domestic violence and teenage drug abuse.
For his final Media project in high school, Callum created a music video which was selected for Top Screens 2020; a selective collection of the best VCE Media films from the whole of Victoria. Callum is also doing freelance videography work for a range of clients, offering promotional marketing content under his business Pritchard Productions. You can check out his YouTube channel here.
Talin Agon
Actor, Producer, Writer & Director
Talin Agon is an actor, writer, producer and private tutor from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Australian Catholic University, majoring in Theatre and Performance and Literature. She then completed her post graduate Master’s degree in English Literature at Macquarie University.
In 2010, she was awarded a scholarship by The New York Film Academy to study acting in Los Angeles. She has further honed her skills via Paul Michael’s The Network in New York, The Actor’s Pulse in Sydney, and vocal coaching with Bill Pepper. Talin continues to study acting, and is currently completing classes at the Sydney Acting Studio in Redfern.
Talin has appeared in a number of stage plays, commercials, and feature films, including “Life of the Party” (2017) “Life Class” (2016). More recently, she was cast in the upcoming feature film “Public Eye” (2021). She has also appeared in several short films, such as “Fenced” which took home the AACTA social shorts award for its heartfelt portrayal of the refugee experience in Australia.
Talin is the founder of Queen of the Jungle, her production company, which has produced the short films “The Paper Rose”, “The Ghost of Kelly Winters”, “Upsold” “Touch/Screen” and “Wrath.” Her films have won awards and been included in over 20 festivals collectively. She is currently co-writing her first feature film and producing three shorts set to go into production in 2021 and 2022.
Outside of her projects, Talin is the founder of her education company Study Sphere, which offers English, Math and Acting tuition to school students across Sydney. Most recently, Talin has been coaching teens at NIDA open and has joined the SF3 team as an Associate Producer and Judge.
Katharine Ruth Rogers
PRODUCER, FILMMAKER & AUTHOR
Katharine is an award-winning writer/director. Her films have screened at many homegrown and international film festivals, including Flickerfest, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, and St Louis International Film festival. As well as receiving theatrical distribution in Australia, and the US. And screening on Virgin Inflight entertainment two years in a row.
Katharine was a digital producer at ABC Kids for five years. While at the National Broadcaster, she directed the 20-episode series Story Salad for iView and numerous promos for broadcast on ABC2. She also created the Story Salad and Gardening Buds podcasts for ABC Kids Listen. Katharine teaches filmmaking at AFTRS, Bus Stop Films and SF3.
Katharine’s debut picture book, Cockatoo Magic, was published by Loose Parts Press in July 2022.
Karishma Mathur
EDUCATOR, ACTOR & CASTING ASSISTANT
Karishma is a high school Drama (and English) teacher and actor. She has a double degree from University of New South Wales in Bachelor of Arts (Major: English and Theatre) and Bachelor of
Education. Karishma has also participated in extensive workshops from National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA), Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), Institute of Advance Acting and Behavioural Studies (Mumbai), and Stella Adler (Los Angeles) to name a few.
Wayne Tunks
FILMMAKER, WRITER & ACTOR
Wayne Tunks is an award-winning filmmaker, actor, writer, director, acting coach and broadcaster from Sydney. He began making theatre in 2000 and since then has had his work performed all over Australia, the most recent production was in Launceston for ‘The Bridesmaid Must Die!’, which won 4 awards in this year’s Tasmanian Theatre Awards. Wayne’s other successful plays have included, ‘The Subtle Art of the Flirting’, ‘We’ll Always Have Wagga’, ‘Everything I Know I Learnt From Madonna’, ‘Silvertop Ash’, ‘The Girlie Show’ and ‘Hell Hath No Fury’.
As a filmmaker, Wayne’s web series, ‘After Nightfall’ has won awards all over the world; including trophies from the NYC Web Fest, New Jersey Web Fest, Asia Web Awards, British Web Awards and Baltimore Web Fest. His shorts, ‘Arlo’ and ‘Overcaterers Anonymous’, have also screened around the world and won many awards. He is currently shooting his new web series, ‘Spook Siblings’, a horror / comedy web series about aging monster hunters. Wayne has also directed CMT number one music videos for Amber Lawrence and Christie Lamb, as well as clips for Kylie Gale and Arna Georgia.
Wayne’s first novel. ‘Normal or Nothing Like It’, was released in 2021, and his new novel, ‘Electricity’ is out in July 2022. Wayne is a former storyliner on TV’s, ‘Neighbours’ and has been teaching acting to children and teens for the past 20 years in both Sydney and Melbourne. Wayne is also the breakfast announcer on 80s radio station, My88.
Currently Wayne can be seen in the feature horror film, ‘Apparitions’, which is winning awards and screening internationally. Wayne is a proud LGBTQ+ activist and music enthusiast.
Oladipo O’Fresh
SMARTPHONE FILMMAKER & EDUCATOR
Michèle Jedlicka
SMARTPHONE FILMMAKER & EDUCATOR
Jordon Briggs
FILMMAKER, WRITER & PODCASTER
Adrian Jeffs
FILMMBREAKER, STORYTELLER & HUMAN
Living in the beautiful Yarra Valley in Victoria Australia, Adrian is a late bloomer in the filmmaking scene as it wasn’t until he was in his mid 40’s that he was introduced to the wonderfully accessible world of smartphone storytelling.
Since making his first film ‘A good day to die” in late 2016 he has achieved success both locally and internationally and was honoured with winning Best Documentary at MoMo in 2017 and having his second film with his dear friend Mark, premiere at The Sydney Opera House at SF3 in 2018. He was also the winner of the SF3 & Luma Touch Finished on Mobile Award in 2020.
He is passionate about telling stories with heart and shining a light on those that may be living in the shadows that need their stories heard.
Mobile filmmaking has allowed Adrian to follow his dreams and join amazing communities like SF3, MINA and FILMBREAKER to help the next wave of smartphone filmmakers reach their goals.
Dannie Spenxer
FILMMAKER, STORYTELLER, SINGER, SONGWRITER, ACTOR, MUSIC PRODUCER & TECHNOLOGIST
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