Tina Dalton Australia

Wild Fury has a large number of documentary projects in various stages of production, including The Coral Triangle (ZDF/ARTE, Discovery Asia), Wild Australia (ZDF, NDR, Nat Geo), Big Red (Nat Geo), Australia: Land and Landscape (Nine Network), Animals That Changed History (Canadian co-production with Ferns Entertainment), Duels (Czech co-production with KM Records), When the Queen Came to Town (Foxtel), The Wildest River (Malaysian co-production with FINAS) and the 3D IMAX feature Blue Fin (ZDFE, ABC). 

Website:
wildfury.com.au
Tina Dalton
Wild Fury
Joint Managing Director 
Bio

Tina Dalton is a Sydney-based producer and managing director of Wild Fury and stock footage company Absolutely Wild Visuals, in partnership with Veronica Fury (formerly Fury Productions) and Hugh Marks (formerly Network Nine/Southern Star). Bettina has made award-winning content for Australian and International audiences via major TV broadcasters, including ABC, SBS, Nine Network, National Geographic, Discovery, PBS Nature, ZDF, NHK and ARTE.

Jodie De Barros Australia

Sea Dog TV International Pty Ltd is an experienced television production company based in Perth, Western Australia.  The Company was established in 2007 by Leighton and Jodie De Barros with the primary focus of expanding relationships within the television industry and producing high quality documentary programs. We have an extensive production history in factual programming, including natural history, wildlife and science.  Pushing the boundaries of film-making, the company makes programs that are unique, innovative and entertaining, while educating and inspiring audiences. 

Some of our major productions are the Hello Birdy factual entertainment series for ABC TV, starring well known actor William McInnes. Natural History/Wildlife documentary, The Search for the Ocean’s Super Predator for ABC TV, Al Rayyan TV, Smithsonian Channel, NHK and National Geographic Channel. Wildlife documentaries,  On a Wing and a Prayer for ABC TV and Whale Patrol for ABC TV and National Geographic Television International. 

Jodie De Barros
Sea Dog TV International
CEO, Head of Finance and Business Affairs 
Bio

Jodie De Barros began her career in documentary filmmaking in 2007 when she established Sea Dog TV International based in Perth, WA with partner Leighton De Barros. Jodie has over 24 years experience in accounting, business and finance and is responsible for the financial and business affairs side of the business, along with executive producing, line producing and production accounting. Jodie has gone on to produce several wildlife/natural history documentaries, including Whale Patrol for ABC TV and National Geographic TV International, On a Wing and a Prayer for ABC TV, The Search for the Ocean's Super Predator for ABC TV, Al Rayyan TV, Smithsonian Channel, NHK and National Geographic Channel. With the most recent being factual entertainment series Hello Birdy for ABC TV with presenter William McInnes.

Leighton De Barros Australia

Sea Dog TV International Pty Ltd is an experienced television production company based in Perth, Western Australia.  The Company was established in 2007 by Leighton and Jodie De Barros with the primary focus of expanding relationships within the television industry and producing high quality documentary programs. We have an extensive production history in factual programming, including natural history, wildlife and science.  Pushing the boundaries of film-making, the company makes programs that are unique, innovative and entertaining, while educating and inspiring audiences. 

Some of our major productions are the Hello Birdy factual entertainment series for ABC TV, starring well known actor William McInnes. Natural History/Wildlife documentary, The Search for the Ocean’s Super Predator for ABC TV, Al Rayyan TV, Smithsonian Channel, NHK and National Geographic Channel. Wildlife documentaries,  On a Wing and a Prayer for ABC TV and Whale Patrol for ABC TV and National Geographic Television International. 

Leighton De Barros
Sea Dog TV International
CEO, Head of Development and Production 
Bio

Four-time Emmy Award nominee Leighton De Barros has over 25 experience in the television industry, specialising in documentary filmmaking, as a producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He has won more than 15 industry awards and worked on many films broadcast by Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic, and has international clients including Survivor (CBS America) and the BBC Natural History Unit. In 2007 Leighton established Sea Dog TV International with partner Jodie De Barros and has gone on to produce, direct, write and shoot several documentaries, including the well rated The Search for the Ocean's Super Predator for ABC TV, Al Rayyan TV, NHK, Smithsonian Channel and National Geographic Channel, Hello Birdy a factual entertainment series for ABC TV with actor William McInnes, Shark Bay, Whale Patrol, and On a Wing and a Prayer for ABC TV and National Geographic.

Mariska Deane Australia

Foxtel is one of Australia’s most progressive and dynamic media companies, directly employing around 2,500 people, and delivering a diverse subscription television service to both regional and metropolitan areas over cable, satellite and broadband distribution.

We offer a better entertainment experience every day to each one of our 2.5 million subscribing homes through delivery of exclusive and inspiring programming across all genres, the world’s most popular channel brands, and investment in high quality local content.

As constant champions of innovation we have brought our customers:

•The iQ personal video recorder

•Australia’s largest HD channel offering, with 26 dedicated channels

•FOX FOOTY Channel – for true AFL fans

•The LONDON 2012 Olympic Games over 8 dedicated HD channels, plus a tablet app

•Live and catch up TV on your tablet or other mobile device with Foxtel Go

•Flexible access with our internet TV service Foxtel Play

In addition, the subscription television sector invests around $700 million every year in new and original Australian content.


Since creating a new national subscription television service, through the merging of Foxtel and Austar in 2012, Foxtel directly employs around 2,500 people and a further 2,000 workers are indirectly engaged in sales and installation services nationally.


The Foxtel Television Centre at North Ryde in Sydney is the headquarters of Foxtel's national subscription television operations and houses Foxtel’s television studios, broadcast operations and cable and satellite transmission facilities. Foxtel also operates two Customer Solutions Centres based at Moonee Ponds in Melbourne, and Robina on the Gold Coast.

Foxtel is owned by Telstra Corporation Ltd (50%) and The News Corporation Ltd (50%).

 

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Mariska Deane
FOXTEL
Head of of Programming - Factual Channels 
Profession
Bio

Head of Programming - Factual Channels

Mr Wayne Denning Australia

We are an award-winning full service media production company, based in the vibrant Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. 

We develop children’s television shows, documentaries, television commercials, corporate productions, websites and smart phone apps as well as branding, design, motion-graphics, animation, communication and marketing strategies and so much more.

Mr Wayne Denning
Carbon Media
LinkedIn logo Executive Producer and Managing Director 
Bio

Wayne Denning is the owner and managing director of Carbon Media, based in Brisbane, Australia. Wayne established Carbon Media in 2006 and has overseen the production, as executive producer, of many television programs and series. Wayne's recent productions include 5 Kangaroos for Sesame Workshop, Handball Heroes for ABC3, children's game shows Go Lingo! and Letterbox for NITV and ABC3, documentaries Intune, Blacktracks, From the Ashes and ProppaNOW. The multiplatform of ground breaking documentary series First Footprints for the ABC. Wayne currently sits on the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Board, the Brisbane Writers Festival Board and is the Chair of the Brisbane Festivals Indigenous Advisory Group.

Shoba Devi Malaysia

Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad is a leading integrated consumer media entertainment group in Malaysia and Southeast Asia with operations in 4 key areas of business, namely Pay-TV, Radio, Publications and Digital Media.

 

With a customer base of over 3 million residential customers or approximately 50% penetration of Malaysian TV households, Astro offers 156 TV channels, including 68

Astro-created and branded channels and 22 HD channels, delivered via Direct-To-Home satellite TV, IPTV and OTT platforms. Astro provides HD, 3D, PVR, VOD and IPTV services through Astro B.yond and Astro On-The-Go.

 

Fulfilling its promise to bridge the digital divide for all of Malaysia, Astro introduced NJOI as an entry-level DTH satellite TV service and is the country’s first non-subscription based satellite TV, offering 17 TV and 20 radio channels.

Website:
astro.com.my
Shoba Devi
Astro Satellite Television
Snr AVP, Citra 

Pru Donovan Australia

Screen Australia is the key Federal Government direct funding body for the Australian screen production industry. Its functions are to support and promote the development of a highly creative, innovative and commercially sustainable Australian screen production industry. In addition Screen Australia administers the Government's Producer Offset and International Co-production Program to increase the commercial sustainability of production in Australia.

Screen Australia was created under the Screen Australia Act 2008 and from 1 July 2008 took over the functions and appropriations of its predecessor agencies: the Australian Film Commission (AFC), the Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) and Film Australia Limited.

Pru Donovan
Screen Australia
Assessment Manager, Producer Offset and Co-production Unit 
Profession
Bio

Pru recently joined Screen Australia as an Assessment Manager to assess provisional and final certificate applications in the Producer Offset and Co-Production Unit (POCU). Prior to joining Screen Australia she worked for five years with the POCU as an independent film production consultant. Pru has worked extensively as an independent production accountant, financial controller, production manager and line producer in the Australian film and television industry. Her more than 20 years' industry experience includes documentary and factual series - BrightSparks for Beyond Productions, A Current Affair - Summer Edition and Michael Willesee's Street Stories for Channel 9 and on one-off documentaries - Cenotaph for the ABC and Bull Sharks in the Backyard for Nat Geo Wild. She has also worked on numerous feature films and drama mini-series including Parer's War, A Heartbeat Away, The Wolverine and Remote Area Nurse.

Amanda Duthie Australia

The Adelaide Film Festival celebrates the moving image – the ideas and artists that animate the multiple screens in our lives. Every 2 years, over 11 days, you can immerse yourself in feature films, documentaries, shorts, animations and new media works – in cinemas, galleries and on the city streets. Take a risk – get out of your comfort zone – and travel the globe from your cinema seat.

Amanda Duthie
Adelaide Film Festival
Director/CEO Adelaide Film Festival  
Profession
Bio

Amanda is Director/CEO of Adelaide Film Festival and CEO of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. 

We are currently looking for projects for 2015 AFF Investment Fund (AFFIF) - check site for details and happy to heaer of projects in pre or post. www.adealaidefilmfestival.org