Leo Faber Australia

Essential Media and Entertainment is one of Australia's most prolific and award winning production companies making high quality factual series, documentaries and multi-platform content. Its factual team, headed by executive producers Chris Hilton and Alan Erson, has produced hundreds of hours of quality documentary for broadcasters such as PBS, BBC, Channel Four, Discovery, National Geographic and Arte as well as all Australian networks. The company covers the full range of factual programming including science, history, arts, factual entertainment and lifestyle.

Leo Faber
Essential Media and Entertainment
Development Executive Factual  
Bio

Leo Faber is Development Executive Factual at Essential Media and Entertainment. He has extensive experience in factual story telling as both writer and producer involved in award-winning programs such as Whatever! The Science of Teens, Miracle in the Storm and Masterchef. Prior to joining Essential Media, Leo was responsible for writing and series producing some 50 hours of factual programming at Beyond Productions, Southern Star Endemol and Fremantle Media.

Alex Fernandez Australia

Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) supports the growth of Australian companies in their international activities by providing tailored financial solutions when the private market faces constraints.  

As Australia's export credit agency, we assist Australian-based businesses so that they can take advantage of commercial export and overseas investment opportunities. We also support buyers of Australian goods and services in emerging markets and subcontractors to Australian exporters. 

We work directly with businesses and their banks to provide loans, guarantees, bonds and insurance products.  

EFIC is uniquely placed to do this. We have over 50 years of finance and industry expertise, contacts at financial institutions around the globe, the strength of our AAA credit rating and an entrepreneurial business approach.  

We practise responsible lending and uphold social and environmental best practice in the transactions we support.

Website:
www.efic.gov.au
Alex Fernandez
Export Finance & Insurance Company
Head of Alliances and Product, SME 
Profession
Bio

Alex is the Head of Alliance and Product at EFIC. Alex's role at EFIC is to work with key alliance partners including the banking community, government and industry bodies, to develop solutions that support EFIC in its role to help Australian SME exporters overcome financial barriers. Alex has specific responsibility for assisting Australian producers of low budget productions to finance the producer offset rebate. Alex experience's includes 30 years working in commercial lending, primarily to small and medium-sized enterprises. He specialises in providing tailored solutions that meet a customer's particular needs. Before joining EFIC, he worked for seven years for HSBC, and before that, for 18 years for what was then Australia's oldest finance company, Australian Guarantee Corporation.

Jules Fortune Australia

Prospero Productions is one of Australia's leading independent documentary production companies. We have made quality, multi-award winning documentaries and documentary series for nearly 20 years. The Prospero signature is strong narrative-driven documentaries that appeal to a wide range of viewers.

For appointments during AIDC please email: suziepunchard@prospero.com.au

Jules Fortune
Prospero Productions
Head of Production 
Profession
Bio

Jules joined Prospero Productions in 2010 bringing with her experience from both RTE and the independent sector in Ireland. After working as a Production Manager on some of Prospero's most challenging documentaries, Jules was appointed to the position of Head of Production in 2012. Now she overseas the day-to-day management of all areas of production, from contracting and budgeting to managing staff and creating schedules.

For appointments during AIDC please email: suziepunchard@prospero.com.au

Veronica Fury 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
Veronica Fury
Wild Fury
Joint Managing Director 
Bio

Wild Fury Pty Ltd is one of Australia's newest factual and factual entertainment production companies. Wild Fury represents the combined forces of respected producers, Tina Dalton of Absolutely Wild Visuals and Content Mint, and Veronica Fury of Fury Productions. Former Nine Network and Southern Star CEO Hugh Marks has come on board as Executive Director.