[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”6%” bottom_padding=”3%” id=”jury” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”The Jury” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:62|text_align:left|line_height:62px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css_animation=”fadeInUp” link=”|||”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”3%” id=”Jury” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8324″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Christopher Leone” job_position=”Filmmaker” description=”Christopher Leone is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker with a background in visual effects animation.
Leone wrote and directed the digital film PARALLELS for Fox Digital Studios, which is now in development as a series for Fox Network as THE BUILDING. Leone will serve as executive producer alongside Neil Gaiman and Albert Kim. Before that he directed two seasons of the digital series SUIT UP and the series WOLFPACK OF RESEDA, also for Fox Digital.
Leone is also one of the creators and writers of THE LOST ROOM, the critically-acclaimed SyFy mini-series, starring Peter Krause, Juliana Margulies, and Kevin Pollak. THE LOST ROOM earned him a nomination for a Writers Guild Award.”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8334″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Virginia Whitwell” job_position=”Producer” description=”Hailing from a production background both in the UK and Australia, Virginia Whitwell brings over 20 years industry experience to her role as Head of Production at Madman Production Company.
Most recently she has co-produced projects including A Month of Sundays, That Sugar Film and Save Your Legs! She is currently producing three feature documentaries including All For One, Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy, and the recently completed Spookers, an NZ/Australian co-production. Virginia continues to develop scripted feature and TV projects across the company slate while running the day to day activities of the business.”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8331″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Paul Walton” job_position=”Producer” description=”Paul Walton is a producer and partner at Princess Pictures.
He started life in the UK as a child actor but soon realized just turning up wasn’t enough, you had to have acting talent too! With this in mind, Paul moved to the other side of the camera and found his true calling – seeing the potential in ideas and working with talent to bring their projects to life.
Paul is a passionate producer, loves creative people, and relishes the chance to challenge traditional creative parameters. He has a large list of credits that span over thirty years working in feature films, sketch comedy, television drama, narrative TV comedy, light entertainment, live television and news, but it is the current short form comedy space that really stimulates his desire to push the boundaries of contemporary content to truly embrace remarkable creative opportunities.”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”3%” id=”Jury” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8326″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Julie Eckersley ” job_position=”Producer” description=”Julie is a creative producer with over 20 years experience in the industry. She has experience in the full scope of production from concept development, financing and production to international sales and marketing.
Julie has overseen numerous projects with multi-million dollar budgets and a wide spectrum of stakeholders, including international investors. Her role involves negotiating financial and creative elements of projects, building and managing teams and delivering on vision and budget to a wide range of stakeholders.”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8330″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Nicholas Colla” job_position=”Director” description=”Nicholas Colla has been working in the film & television industry in Australia for over 20 years.
Starting at the ripe old age of 8, Nick has appeared in shows including Neighbours, Blue Heelers, Winners & Losers, Offspring & Ronnie Chieng: International Student.
As a director, his short films have screened both here and abroad at festivals including Flickerfest, Palm Springs, Frameline and Cinequest. His award winning romantic comedy short Palindromes was also purchased by Virgin Australia, ABC iView & the RTI network in Italy.
Nick is the co-founder of LateNite Films, through which he has helped produce a number of projects including the smash hit comedy web series The Wizards of Aus, award winning short film HIT and an ambitious music video for Guy Pearce’s debut single Storm.”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8329″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Maria Angelico” job_position=”Actor/Writer” description=”Maria Angelico is an Australian actress and the creator and writer of Screen Australia funded web series MOVEMENT achieving international acclaim.
Maria will soon be seen in the lead in the Network Ten series Sisters, and was recently seen on stage in a national tour of the Australian premiere production of Bad Jews, in the lead role of Daphna. Maria’s passion lies in telling stories of vulnerability through a truthful, dynamic and often humorous style. With over 15 years of acting experience on the Australian big and small screens it seems a natural progression for her to add writer to her skills. Maria is a 2010 graduate of Melbourne based 16th Street Acting Studio. She has also studied at the Susan Batson Studios NY with esteemed acting coach Larry Moss and the Actors Studio’s Elizabeth Kemp. Following the success of MOVEMENT which included taking the win for “Spotlight on Melbourne’ in last years Melbourne Web Fest; Maria co-founded production company Sweetheart Films with producer Lucy Hayes.”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”3%” id=”Jury” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8327″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Kylie Northover” job_position=”Journalist” description=”Kylie Northover has been a journalist for more than 20 years, and has worked as a features writer, editor and sub-editor across magazines and newspapers in Australia, Hong Kong and London.
Since joining The Age in 2006, she has worked as an online producer and reporter, deputy editor of entertainment section EG, editor of Melbourne Life and deputy arts editor. She is currently the deputy editor of The Saturday Age’s Spectrum section, a feature writer and television reviewer for The Age’s Green Guide.”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8333″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Stayci Taylor” job_position=”Screenwriter” description=”Dr Stayci Taylor is the Industry Fellow with the Media program at RMIT’s School of Media and Communication.
Her screenwriting credits include 10 seasons of award winning bilingual soap Korero Mai, a primetime NZ sitcom of which she was co-writer and creator, and a screenplay currently in development with the NZ Film Commission. Her PhD, by creative practice, explored gender and comedy through the writing of a female-centred comedy screenplay. She is published in the fields of script development, screenwriting practice, and the emerging scholarship around the rise of the web series. She likes to bang on about its potential to disrupt entrenched practices and celebrates the creative freedom available to producers of online content.”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8332″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Ric Forster” job_position=”Producer/Writer/Director” description=”Ric has worked as a producer, writer and director of digital content for over a decade.
Specialising in extending narrative storylines into the digital space, Ric’s credits include ten webseries for the TV series Neighbours, as well as indie productions ‘Project Schoolies’ and ‘LOL’. In 2012, Ric teamed up with YouTube pranksters The Janoskians to create a hybrid TV/webseries for MTV Australia, based on their comedy channel.
He is currently in post production on his debut feature film, sci-fi drama ‘Time Apart’, produced as part of Melbourne’s ‘Lean Filmmaking’ accelerator, which applies lean methodology to content production.”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”3%” id=”Jury” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”8325″ team_memeber_style=”meta_below” link_element=”none” color=”Accent-Color” name=”Enzo Tedeschi” job_position=”Producer/Writer/Director/Editor” description=”A versatile filmmaker, Enzo is recognised among his peers as a prolific Producer, Director, Writer and Editor.
Over the last 10 years, Enzo Tedeschi co-produced the controversial indie feature documentary Food Matters, which has become synonymous around the world alongside its follow-up Hungry For Change as benchmarks in the wellbeing industry.
Enzo joined forces with Julian Harvey to write, produce and edit the horror feature film The Tunnel – a project whose innovative approach to funding and distribution saw it hit international cinema screens despite being crowdfunded and given away for free online. The film reached a global audience of 15 million, and garnered Enzo and Julian the Screen Producers Association of Australia Award for Breakthrough Independent Producers Of The Year in 2011.”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][/vc_column][/vc_row]