Ray has worked as a director, producer, DOP, editor and writer on features, shorts, documentaries, and established a reputation as one of Australia's most innovative cinematographers on features such as Wrong World, The Prisoner of St Petersberg and Look Both Ways. Ray's rst feature, Return Home, received an AFI Award for best director and was presented at numerous international festivals.

Helen has produced TV drama, documentaries and feature lms. Her credits as producer for Matchbox include Old School starring Bryon Brown and Sam Neill, The Straits, Gregor Jordan’s documentary Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer. She co-produced, with Penny Chapman, the Logie & AFI Award-winning children’s television series My Place and Ran, the six-part miniseries for SBS.

Martin produced Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge, winner of Golden Globe for Best Musical in 2001 and was nominated for eight Academy Awards including: Best Picture (winning two for Costume Design and Art Direction). Martin was awarded the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Producer of the Year in 2001 by the Producers' Guild of America for his work on Moulin Rouge.

Sue Murray has executive produced Rolf de Heer’s Dr Plonk, Ten Canoes, The King is Dead! and Charlie’s Country ; the documentaries The Balanda and the Bark Canoes and We’re Livin’ On Dog Food, Tom White and co-produced Alexandra’s Project. She has devised marketing and festivals strategies for Son of a Lion, My Tehran For Sale, Samson & Delilah, Little Sparrows and Beatriz’s War.

Martin is one of Australia’s most experienced Directors of Photography with over 30 movies to his credit. His first feature, Proof (Dir: Jocelyn Moorhouse) won the AFI award for best film, repeating that success three years later with the release of the iconic Muriel’s Wedding (Dir: PJ Hogan), one of Australia’s most loved movies. The ground-breaking miniseries Blue Murder was released the following year. Many AFI/AACTA and ACS awards and nominations have followed in their wake: Children of the Revolution, On the Beach, The Sound of One hand Clapping, Blackrock, The Broken Shore, Swimming Upstream, Operation Buffalo. Martin shot Rachel Griffiths’ feature debut Ride Like a Girl which was Australia’s highest grossing locally produced film of 2019. Martin’s most recent television credits include Jungle Entertainment’s Wakefield (Dir: Jocelyn Moorhouse and Kim Mourdant) and Porchlight Film’s Operation Buffalo (Dir: Peter Duncan), both commissioned by the ABC, along with Banished for BBC2 and Difficult People for Hulu. His documentary credits include the recent Revelation (Dir: Niall Fulton- ABC) and Blind Ambition (Dir: Robert Coe and Warwick Ross). Martin has just completed NBC’s Young Rock (Dir: Nanatchka Khan and Jefferey Walker) based on the early life of Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock.

Anna Cater has produced and directed documentaries for Australian and international broadcasters for the past 30 years. Her recent credits include the feature documentaries Richard Leplastrier – Framing the View (ABC) and The Bowraville Murders (SBS). Other documentaries include Dick Smith’s Population Puzzle (ABC); Frank Hurley – the Man Who Made History (BBC, ABC); Outsourced! (PBS, SBS); Honeybee Blues (SBS, Nat Geo); and the feature film Rites of Passage (ABC). Anna began her career as a print journalist and has written for newspapers and magazines around the world. She worked for the ABC’s Background Briefing investigative radio program before becoming head of research and a producer at Four Corners. She began her film production company after graduating from AFTRS with an MA in Documentary in 1997.

Remy Hii began his career on stage at the age of 19 with the Queensland Theatre Company in the award winning play The Estimator. Television roles soon followed, and three years of full time study with the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, Australia where he graduated in 2011. Weeks after graduating, Hii was cast in Alex Proyas' film 'Paradise Lost' as a fallen Angel alongside Bradley Cooper's Lucifer. The production however was shutdown citing budgetary reasons. Immediately following, Hii appeared playing the true story of Van Tuong Nguyen, an Australian sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Singapore. For his role as Van in Better Man, Remy was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, and won the Graham Kennedy Award For Most Outstanding Newcomer. Hii was introduced to international audiences as Prince Jingim, heir to the Kublai Khan's Mongolian Empire in the Netflix/Weinstein Original production Marco Polo. Remy underwent rigorous physical training for the role including martial arts, archery, horse riding, and performed his own stunts on the show. Hii returned to the stage in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The Golden Age in 2016.

Samantha Lang is a filmmaker. She is produces, directs, and writes. Working in Australia, Europe and the US over the last 20 years, her films have screened at major international festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, and have received international recognition at the highest level, her film ‘The Well’ competing at the Cannes Film Festival for the prestigious Palme D’Or. In Australia, Samantha’s films have been awarded many times including - at the Australian Film Institute Awards and the Sydney Film Festival. In 2015 – her film ‘Carlotta’ was nominated for five AACTA awards and won three. As well as being a creative practitioner, currently working with Garth Davis, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning in their joint venture I AM THAT - she has mentored, supervised and lectured postgraduate film students in her capacity as Head of Directing at AFTRS (2010-2016), as well as mentored emerging practitioners at SNSW, HIVE at AIFF, and SA. Presently she is a DCA candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her areas of interest include eco feminine cinema and cultural narratives in the Anthropocene. Her company Handmaid Media is committed to producing films that unearth stories from diverse perspectives. With an eye and ear for emerging and established talent, Samantha is committed to finding authentic voices with an edgy aesthetic. A social, ethical, ecological consciousness pervades all the Handmaid Media projects. In 2015 Samantha was elected as President of the Australian Director’s Guild with a mandate to create greater diversity across gender, race and class in the sector. As part of this remit she remains on the taskforce at Screen Australia that rolled out the Gender Matters Initiative in 2016. Recently she has presented papers on gender equity in South Korea and China. Samantha’s current projects include Brown Lake - an eco-thriller, a feature adaptation of cross-cultural comedy ‘Kill The Messenger’ by playwright & comedian, Nakkiah Lui. Asian Australian YA feature ‘Laurinda’ by screenwriter & actress, Michelle Law, and TV drama series of ‘Night Games’ (with producer Aquarius Films). She directed her first VR film ‘Prehistoric VR’ in 2017 and is in development with her next VR anthology ‘Anthropocene Project’ . Her most recent film in 2019 was a documentary on contemporary public artists ‘It all Started with a Stale Sandwich’

Nicole Chamoun is best known for her compelling depiction of Iraqi refugee Zahra Al Bayati in SBS's critically acclaimed Safe Harbour, for which she was nominated both for a Logie for Most Outstanding Supporting Actress and an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama; as well as the series lead role of Amirah Al-Amir in On The Ropes, directed by Shannon Murphy, for Lingo Pictures and SBS; and for which Nicole was nominated for the Logie award for Most Outstanding Actress. Nicole's other leading TV roles include Laila in Romper Stomper for Stan network, Afina in the ABC's The Dr Blake Mysteries, Selma in City Homicide for the Seven Network, the comedy series Ronny Chieng International Student and in Esben Storm's Kick for SBS, playing a lead role, Layla. On stage Nicole has appeared as Jomana in Tales Of A City To The Sea for La Mama Theatre which was nominated for a Green Room Award. And along with feature film credits Last Dance and Who Wants to be a Terrorist, Nicole has also appeared in numerous short films including Concern for Welfare which was funded by Create NSW and SBS Australia through the Generator Emerging Filmmakers Fund for SBS Viceland. Nicole will next be seen in the upcoming feature film, Miss Fisher and The Crypt of Tears, directed by Tony Tilse and in the role of Jacinta in the mini-series The Gloaming for ABC Studios.

Peter Andrikidis is a Director known for his work on television series such as ‘Cop Shop’ ‘G.P.’, ‘Water Rats’, ‘Wildside’, ‘Grass Roots’ and ‘Farscape’ as well as telemovies such as ‘My Husband My Killer’, ‘Heroes Mountain’ and ‘Blackjack’. Peter directed all seasons of Multi Award Winning ‘East West 101’ as well as the first season of ‘Underbelly’. Peter’s first feature was ‘Kings of Mykonos’ followed bythe comedy ‘Alex and Eve’. Recent projects include ‘The New Legends of Monkey’, ‘Reckoning’ and ‘Eden’. He has won numerous awards for directing/producing and was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for his services to Australian society and Australian film production. Weeks after graduating, Hii was cast in Alex Proyas' film 'Paradise Lost' as a fallen Angel alongside Bradley Cooper's Lucifer. The production however was shutdown citing budgetary reasons. Immediately following, Hii appeared playing the true story of Van Tuong Nguyen, an Australian sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Singapore. For his role as Van in Better Man, Remy was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, and won the Graham Kennedy Award For Most Outstanding Newcomer. Hii was introduced to international audiences as Prince Jingim, heir to the Kublai Khan's Mongolian Empire in the Netflix/Weinstein Original production Marco Polo. Remy underwent rigorous physical training for the role including martial arts, archery, horse riding, and performed his own stunts on the show. Hii returned to the stage in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The Golden Age in 2016.

Dr Romaine Moreton is Goenpul Yagera of Stradbroke Island and Bundjulung of northern New South Wales. She is an internationally recognised writer of poetry, prose and film. While a Research Fellow Filmmaker in Residence at Monash, she completed the powerful transmedia work One Billion Beats, that examined the historical representation of Aboriginal people in Australian cinema. Prior to that, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Newcastle and worked on a project about Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property. With Dr Lou Bennett, Romaine has been working closely with AFTRS over the last two years on a first-of-its-kind Indigenous Curriculum for screen and broadcast, focussed through the lens of ethics and aesthetics. Dr Moreton is responsible for leading the design and implementation of the School’s First Nations and Outreach strategy, to ensure that AFTRS is continuing the work of the previous Head of Indigenous, Kyas Hepworth (née Sherriff), and meaningfully embedding First Nations culture in all that the School does, internally and externally, and that AFTRS takes a leadership position as a hub of excellence in learning that is safe, inclusive and accessible to people from all across Australia.

Rahel Romahn is one of the finest actors of his generation. He has worked professionally in Film, Television and Theatre since the age of 13 and continuously grown the plethora of experience he has built in Australia. He was nominated for a AACTA and Logie awards for his complex portrayal of a troubled youth in ‘The Principal’. Since then Rahel has been involved in tv shows such as, the yet to be released Australian Gangster, Mr Inbetween, Janet King, Pulse, Secret City, Cleverman and Underbelly. His film credits include, Down Under, Alex and Eve, The Combination, Ali’s Wedding, Little Monsters and the yet to be released films, Here Out West, Streets of Colour and Moon Rock for Monday. He has also starred in 7 plays at the highly esteemed Sydney Theatre Company in the last 3 years. Rahel is fast becoming one of the most sought after young actors in Australia and will very surely soon be working internationally. He is represented by Shanahan Management.

Helana Sawires is an Egyptian-Australian actress, based in Sydney. Born into a large, creative family of artists and musicians, she has always lived under the influence of, and in the world of the performing arts and crafts. After graduating from Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in 2011, Helana travelled for a year through Africa and Europe where she gained much of her inspiration and insight into the human condition. In 2015, she trained under master acting coach Sam Schacht at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. Soon after, she was cast as lead actress in Australian feature film Ali’s Wedding in the role of Dianne, directed by Jeffrey Walker. Her performance earned her nominations for Best Lead Actress at the AACTA Awards, Australian Film Critics Association Awards, and Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Months after filming, she returned to Melbourne to play another lead female role as Jomana in Samah Sabawi’s play Tales of a City By the Sea. The play toured nationally and to Malaysia, and was included in the Victorian school curriculum. It won two awards from Drama Victoria and was nominated for the Green Room award for Best Independent Theatre production. Helana’s most recent work is in highly acclaimed Australian Television series, STATELESS (2020), where she played the role of Rosna, a detainee Kurdish Freedom Fighter.

Susan Prior works extensively in film, television and theatre. She received an AACTA Award for David Michod's film, The Rover. Other films include: Jasper Jones, Animal Kingdom, Book Week, Rising Wolf, Aim High in Creation, Not Suitable for Children, A Cold Summer (co-writer) Idiot Box. She starred in the Oscar-nominated short The Saviour, and Jennifer Kent’s Monster. On television: The Gloaming, Les Norton, Glitch, Riot, Safe Harbour, Top of the Lake, Rake, Puberty Blues (AACTA Award nomination). She has written articles for Inside Film magazine as well.

Robert Mackenzie is an Australian supervising sound editor who has been enriching the film world with his creative soundscapes for over twenty-five years. He body of work includes Animal Kingdom (2010), The Hunter (2011), Lore (2012), Felony (2013), The Grandmaster (2013), The Rover (2014), Deadline Gallipoli (2015), Partisan (2015), Lion (2016), and critically acclaimed war-drama film Hacksaw Ridge (2017), for which he received two Academy Award nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. Most recently Rob has completed work on The Nightingale and Mystify, Judy & Punch, Top End Wedding, and in addition to David Michôd’s medieval epic, The King.

Rachel Ward is an actress, screenwriter and film and television director. She is known for The Thorn Birds (1983), Sharky's Machine (1981) and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). She garnered nomination for ‘New Star of the Year’ award at the Golden Globe for playing Dominoe in the film ‘Sharky's Machine’. Her portrayal of Meggie Cleary in the television miniseries ‘The Thorn Birds’ fetched her a second Golden Globe nomination, afterwhich Rachel Ward featured in several screen productions and feature films. She won several directors awards for ‘The Big House’. Her directorial works also include the film ‘Martha's New Coat’ and ‘Beautiful Kate’.

Bonnie Elliott is an award-winning cinematographer who works across drama, documentary and video art. Bonnie’s work has screened at major international festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Tribeca, Rotterdam, Sydney & Melbourne. She has received recognition from the Australian Cinematographer’s Society on numerous occasions. Bonnie shot her debut feature film in Iran. MY TEHRAN FOR SALE, directed by Granaz Moussavi, premiered at the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival, and screened at international film festivals including Toronto, Pusan and Rotterdam.

Mojean Aria is an Australian actor, writer and director who won the 2017 Heath Ledger Scholarship award. He attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the age of fourteen. In 2004 he won a scholarship to The McDonald College High School of Performing Arts. In 2005 he landed a lead role in the feature film Cross Life directed by Claire McCarthy, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival. He later relocated to Los Angeles. His work has been screened at; Cannes Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and more.

Ester Harding is a creative producer, working across film, television and multiplatform content. For See Pictures, she served as production executive on feature drama BREATH, co-produced feature comedy SWINGING SAFARI, and produced REMEMBERING AGATHA, a half-hour film for the ABC. Previously, for Media Stockade Ester co-produced feature documentary I AM A GIRL and line-produced broadcast documentary THE SURGERY SHIP for the ABC; for Firelight Productions / 6ixty Foot Films she was the All Media Producer for multiplatform documentary project STORM SURFERS 3D; and for Freehand Productions produced interactive documentary AFTER SIX-FOUR. She has recently joined Screen Australia as a Development Executive.

Fereydoun is an Iranian actor and theatre director. Hehas performed and directed more than 40 plays and acted in numerous TV series and features. He has also been a lecturer at University of Art (Cinema and Theatre) and University of Art and Architecture in Iran.

Andrea has worked consistently in Film, TV and Theatre since graduating from NIDA in 2006. Feature films include Adam & Eve, Around the Blockand Nerve. Television includes Pulse,Seven Types of Ambiguity, Janet Kingseries 1, 2 & 3, Crowniesand The Principal. Other TV credits include Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Mr & Mrs Murder, Think Tank and All Saints. Andrea has worked in theatre across the country including Arcadia, Arms and the Man, Perplexand Pygmalionfor STC, The Dog/The Cat, The Book of Everything, Oedipus Rexfor Belvoir, A Beautiful Lifefor Riverside, Intimate Letters, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Nightand Pericles for Bell Shakespeare Co. She has also appeared in Helly’s Magic Cupfor STCSA and Winter for the Griffin Theatre. More recently she had starred in Antigone for Sport for Jove.

David White is an Australian Sound Designer and Sound Editor best known for his role as the sound designer of the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road. White won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road with fellow sound editor Mark Mangini.

Rosemary Blight is one of the founding partners of Goalpost Pictures Australia a leading independent producer of Feature Film and TV drama. Film credits include HOLDING THE MAN, directed by Neil Armfield, FELONY, directed by Matthew Saville and written by Joel Edgerton and the box office hit THE SAPPHIRES, directed by Wayne Blair which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. They are in post production on the feature film STEM with Blumhouse Productions, directed by Leigh Whannell. Recent television credits include the acclaimed CLEVERMAN produced with ABC TV Australia & SundanceTV (US) & FIGHTING SEASON for Foxtel.

Ben Ferris is one of the founders of Sydney Film School, where he is currently the Director and a writing/directing teacher. Ferris, a film writer/director, has screened films and won numerous awards in Paris, New York, Croatia, Italy, Tokyo, Singapore and Amsterdam, as well as having theatrical releases of his works in Tokyo, Croatia, and Australia. His short film ‘The Kitchen’ (2003) won the Grand Prix at the Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Festival in Tokyo in 2005, and his short film ‘Ascension’ (2004) won the Grand Prix at the 4th One Take Film Festival in Croatia in 2004. His debut feature film ‘Penelope’, an Australian–Croatian co-production, screened in National Competition at the 56th Pula Film Festival in Croatia in 2009, and won a Van Gogh Award for Best Fantasy Film at the Amsterdam Film Festival in 2010. In 2016 he completed his second feature film ‘57 Lawson’ which captures daily life within a social housing building in Redfern, under the shadow of impending development. The film is currently on the international festival circuit, and has been critically well received. In 2015, Ferris was the curator of the Sydney Cinémathèque. His writings on cinema have been published worldwide in both French and English.

Jen Peedom is a BAFTA nominated director, known for her gripping, intimate portraits of people in extreme circumstances. Her credits include the internationally renowned documentaries SOLO, SHERPA and most recently MOUNTAIN, a collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. SHERPA, was critically acclaimed on the international festival circuit, including Telluride, Toronto and London Film festivals, winning multiple awards including the Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival, the Australian Film Critics Circle Award, the Australian Directors Guild Award, several audience awards and a BAFTA nomination in 2016. The film became the third highest grossing Australian documentary in history. Her most recent film, MOUNTAIN is currently touring with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and will have its international premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival. Madman will release the film in September 2017. In 2010, Jen was the inaugural recipient of the David & Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship which recognizes and rewards creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation in documentary cinema.

Osama Sami is an award-winning actor, writer, poet and comedian, born in war-torn Iran to Iraqi parents. His critically acclaimed memoir Good Muslim Boy, published by Hardie Grant, was the Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and Highly Commended at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. His play adaptation of the book will be staged by the Malthouse Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre Company as part of their 2018 season. Osamah is also the writer (alongside screenwriting legend Andrew Knight), and star of Ali’s Wedding, which earned them the AWGIE Award for Best Original Feature Film. He is currently writing The Market, a 4 X 1 hour mini series for SBS (produced by December Media); When the birds aren’t free to be buried, a feature animation (Emerald Pictures); and working on a feature film based on his book (Matchbox Pictures). Osamah is recognised as a ‘notable Australian Muslim’ by the Commonwealth of Australia.

Rebecca’s driving passion is to facilitate stories, share these with an audience in a creative way and get people thinking. She was director and producer of the feature documentary, I am a Girl, which was launched in cinemas in 2013 to sell-out sessions, and was nominated for four AACTA Awards including Best Direction in a Documentary, as well as a nomination for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature at the Australian Directors Guild Awards. Rebecca was a producer of The Surgery Ship (SBS & National Geographic), Call Me Dad (ABC), Psychics in the Suburbs (ABC) and controversial human rights film The Opposition, and an Impact Producer on feature documentary, Embrace.

Ray has worked as a director, producer, DOP, editor and writer on features, shorts, documentaries, and established a reputation as one of Australia's most innovative cinematographers on features such as Wrong World, The Prisoner of St Petersberg and Look Both Ways. Ray's rst feature, Return Home, received an AFI Award for best director and was presented at numerous international festivals.

Helen has produced TV drama, documentaries and feature lms. Her credits as producer for Matchbox include Old School starring Bryon Brown and Sam Neill, The Straits, Gregor Jordan’s documentary Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer. She co-produced, with Penny Chapman, the Logie & AFI Award-winning children’s television series My Place and Ran, the six-part miniseries for SBS.

Martin produced Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge, winner of Golden Globe for Best Musical in 2001 and was nominated for eight Academy Awards including: Best Picture (winning two for Costume Design and Art Direction). Martin was awarded the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Producer of the Year in 2001 by the Producers' Guild of America for his work on Moulin Rouge.

Sue Murray has executive produced Rolf de Heer’s Dr Plonk, Ten Canoes, The King is Dead! and Charlie’s Country ; the documentaries The Balanda and the Bark Canoes and We’re Livin’ On Dog Food, Tom White and co-produced Alexandra’s Project. She has devised marketing and festivals strategies for Son of a Lion, My Tehran For Sale, Samson & Delilah, Little Sparrows and Beatriz’s War.