Pat Fiske Director, Producer Pat Fiske (Bower Bird Films Pty Ltd) has been producing and directing documentary films since the early 1970s and has been a prominent member of Australia’s independent filmmaking community. Her films have won many awards and screened in countless film festivals around the world. In 2001, she was [...]
Peter Andrikidis Director In 2007 he directed the SBS mini-series East West 101. A drama about what it means to be Muslim in Australia after September 11, 2001. The cast includes Don Hany, William McInnes and Susie Porter. In that year he also directed the first series of ‘Underbelly ’ the ground-breaking mini-series [...]
Romaine Moreton Writer 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 [...]
Rahel Romahn Actor 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 [...]
Helana Sawires Actor 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 [...]
Mohammad Reza Aslani Director, Writer Mohammad Reza Aslani (born December 9, 1943, in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker, art theorist, graphic designer and poet known mostly for his experimental films and documentaries. He is also the co-writer of Espacementalism (the Poem of Imagination/She'er-e-Hajm) manifesto and one of the main poets of the [...]
Mehrdad Oskouei Director, Writer, Producer Mehrdad Oskouei is an Iranian filmmaker, producer, photographer and researcher born in Tehran in 1969 and later graduating in film direction from the University of Arts. His films have been screened at numerous festivals both at home and abroad to great critical acclaim, making him one of [...]
Mahnaz Mohammadi Director, Writer Well-known for her provocative documentaries on social issues as well as her tireless activism, Iranian director Mahnaz Mohammadi has made headlines in the likes of The Guardian, the Hollywood Reporter or Variety, and has been supported by Amnesty International and the French Directors Guild (Société des réalisateurs de films) [...]
Siamak Etemadi Director, Writer Siamak Etemadi was born in Tehran, Iran. In 1995 he moved to Athens, Greece, where he lives to this day. He studied cinema in the UK, and Greece. He has also followed seminars on acting, editing and photography.From 2004 to 2011 he worked extensively as assistant director (1st & [...]
Homayoun Ghanizadeh Director, Writer, Producer Born in 1980, Homayoun Ghanizadeh is an Iranian avant-garde theatre director, playwright and actor who founded Mungu Theater Company in 2001.His debut work, “waiting for Godot” of Samuel Beckett, was produced in 2003 and performed both in Fajr Theater Festival and for public in Tehran’s City Theater. [...]