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 Bob Baines Sydney 
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Bob Baines is a graduate of the Flinders Drama Centre in Adelaide. He has
had wide experience in theatre, television and film. In theatre his
appearances include Bouncers, Entertaining Mr Sloane,
The Rocky Horror Show, Threepenny Opera,
Buffaloes Can't Fly, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Cabaret, Ned Kelly, The
Dumb Waiter, West By Berkoff and Equus.
On telelvision he has worked on Patrol Boat, Restless Years,
Special Squad, Sons & Daughters, Crime Of The Decade and
Prisoner. Bob has
also worked on The Movers for Film Australia. |
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 Kim Dalton Melbourne |
Kim Dalton graduated from
Flinders University Drama School in 1973. He then worked in
Adelaide and Sydney as a freelance production manager and assistant
director prior to moving to London in 1976. During five years in London,
Kim completed a postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration, freelanced
in the film industry, was involved in managing one of London's leading
independent cinemas, and also managed an independent UK production and
distribution company. Kim returned to live in Melbourne Australia
in 1980, initially working as an independent producer and then from 1984
to 1987 as general manager of OPENChannel during which time he
co-produced the award-winning television mini-series In
Between. In 1987 Kim formed his own production
company, Warner Dalton Pty Ltd, and co-produced the mini-series
The Magistrate for the ABC and UK and Italian
broadcasters and a telemovie, Street Angels, for
the ABC. In 1992 Kim became the FFC's Melbourne investment manager
and was involved in the financing of numerous television projects and
feature films including Muriel's Wedding and
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Following a brief period as general manager of the Australian Children's
Television Foundation in 1994, Kim joined Beyond International Limited
in February 1995 as manager of acquisitions and development.
During his four and a half years at Beyond, Kim was involved in the
development, financing and production of a large number of television
and feature film projects. He was executive producer of the
children's television series Li'l Monsters and
the award-winning natural history series Wild Ones.
He has also been involved in the acquisition and international release
by Beyond of a number of feature films including the AFC-funded
Love and Other Catastrophes. Kim joined the
AFC as Chief Executive in August 1999. He has been responsible for
a significant restructure and refocusing of the organisation. In
August 2001 the Australian Government announced a major increase in
funding for the AFC in addition to providing it with funds to establish
a groundbreaking broadband production fund. |
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 Gale Edwards Sydney |
Gale Edwards is one of the world’s leading stage directors and
interpreters of Renaissance drama in performance. A graduate of
Flinders University, Adelaide University, and the National Institute of
Dramatic Art in Sydney, she now freelances all over the world. She
has directed The Taming of the Shrew and Webster’s
The White Devil for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and, in
Australia, The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About
Nothing, King Lear, The Tempest,
and Coriolanus. In 1985 Gale was associate director
to Trevor Nunn on Les Misérables in Australia and later
mounted the first German-speaking production in Vienna. She has also
directed opera, most notably Mary Stuart for the English
National Opera and Manon Lescaut at the Sydney Opera
House. In Australia, she has been honoured with a Sydney Critics’
Circle award three times for Best Director and Best Production and with a
‘Mo’ award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre, as well as two
Melbourne Greenroom awards. In April 2005 Gale Edwards’s staging of
The Far Pavilions, a new £4 million musical based on the
novel by M.M. Kaye, opened London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. Gale also
directed the original production of The Boy From Oz. |
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 Noni Hazlehurst Melbourne |
Actor, writer and television and radio presenter Noni Hazlehurst has had a varied and exciting career - she's been involved in everything from Australian cop shows to Play School and Better Homes & Gardens, and audiences have been stunned by her compelling performances in the recent Australian films Candy and Little Fish. She recently returned to the stage, where she once gave Mel Gibson his most unforgettable stage kiss, to star in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of the Alan Aykborn play Woman In Mind. Currently she is filming the new Channel 7 drama series City Homicide. |
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 Steve Knapman Sydney Producer |
Steve is probably best known for The
Leaving Of Liverpool which was broadcast throughout
Australia by the ABC in July 1992 to over 2.1 million viewers.
It was the top rating Australian mini-series for 1992. BBC 1
broadcast the series in England in July 1993 to over 15 million viewers.
‘Liverpool’ won two gold and two silver
medals at the New York Festival, three TV Week Logie Awards, the Grand
Award at the Umbriafiction TV Festival in Italy and two Australian Film
Institute Awards. Amongst
other shows, Steve produced the 60 hour television series,
Wildside, which received four TV Week Logie Awards, as
well as an unprecedented seven AFI Awards. After working
together on Wildside, Steve joined forces with
Kris Wyld to create Knapman Wyld Television and produced the much loved
crime series, White Collar Blue for Network
Ten. They then moved on to
East West 101, taking two years to develop
scripts that were ready to shoot in 2007. In 2008 East
West 101 received the AFI Award for Best Miniseries as the
second season completed principal photography in January 2009. |
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 Denis Moore Melbourne 
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Denis's career as an actor and director spans over 30 years. An
honours graduate of the Flinders University Drama Centre, based in
Melbourne, Denis has worked extensively in both capacities for companies
such as the Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, STCSA,
Playbox and Malthouse. He is also proud of his work with many of
Melbourne's smaller companies such as La Mama, Commonplace Productions,
Melbourne Workers Theatre, Theatreworks, Church Theatre and Red Stitch.
A highlight of all this has been his involvement in many Australian
works, both premieres and revivals, including A Stretch of
the Imagination (MTC), Essington Lewis - I am
Work (Church Theatre), Lonely Lennie Lower
(Playbox), The Incorruptible (STC),
Too Young for Ghosts (MTC), Pacific
Union (Playbox), The Ishmael Club
(Commonplace) and The Big Con (Malthouse).
His extensive TV credits include Bastard Boys,
Tripping Over, Blue Heelers,
Stingers, MDA, Newlyweds
and Janus. His work in feature films
includes Struck by Lightning, Crackerjack,
Bad Eggs, Waiting and
Death in Brunswick. In his career Denis has
directed over 30 plays, most recently Peter Kenna's A Hard
God for STC and Richard Bean's Harvest
for Red Stitch which received Victorian Green Room awards for Best
Direction and Best Production for 2006. |
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James Currie |
James has worked in the film industry for over three decades as
location recordist, sound editor, mixer and sound designer. James
has been sound designer on 26 productions, and has worked extensively
with filmmakers Paul Cox and Rolf de Heer. His work with Cox includes
films such as Lust And Revenge,
Molokai, Nijinski, and
Innocence for which he won the IF Award for Best
Sound Track. He has recently completed work on Alexandra's
Project, his sixth film with Rolf de Heer having
previously worked on Incident At Ravens Gate,
Bad Boy Bubby, The Old Man Who
Read Love Stories, The Tracker
and Dingo for which he won an AFI award for
Best Sound Track in 1991. James also won an AFI Award for Best
Sound Track for The Lighthorsemen, and the
Golden Clapper Award for Artistic and Technical Excellence at the 1993
Venice Film Festival for Bad Boy Bubby.
James was instrumental in developing the binaural sound system used on
Bad Boy Bubby, and is highly regarded within
the Australian film industry for working on productions that test the
boundaries of cinematic sound. |
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