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Gemma studied an Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media at M.A.P.S Film School in Adelaide, graduating in 2012. Her first year at M.A.P.S was both rewarding and successful with her film A Dance in the Garden Reminds Me winning a Silver ACS (Australian Cinematography Society) Award in the Student category, as well as winning the MRC SASA Award for Best Non Narrative Film in 2012. In 2013, Gemma worked both on and off set on various high profile projects including Rolf De Heer's Charlie's Country and Channel 9 TV Movie Schapelle. Her strong focus on art and design and her passion for documentaries informs her practices and collaboration with other filmmakers and artists, who share a similar vision. Finding new ways to express ideas in film and above all being an innovative storyteller with honesty and integrity are core to Gemma's development as an emerging filmmaker.

Greg Sanderson is the BBC's Commissioning Editor for Arts, Music and Events, responsible for hundreds of output across four BBC television channels every year. He works across both live events - including the BBC Proms and Glastonbury festival - and documentaries, whose subjects can range from Josiah Wedgwood to Tubular Bells. Greg joined the BBC in 2006 after a spell in the independent sector working for all the major UK broadcasters. He started as a Producer in the Music Department, subsequently becoming Executive Producer of the acclaimed Storyville strand where he commissioned the award-winning film the Marathon Boy, amongst others. He then moved to become Editor of the BBC's flagship topical arts programme The Review Show, before moving to his present role in 2011. Greg has served on many juries, including Royal Television Society, IDFA, ITVS and Sheffield DocFest. His films have won prizes including Prix Italia, FIPA, Grierson and Emmy's.

Ron Saunders has been active in film and television production for over 30 years as a writer, director, producer and executive producer. He has worked in Senior Management at the South Australian Film Corporation, Film Australia, Southern Star and Yoram Gross-EM before becoming Head of Television at the ABC. Ron is currently General Manager of Beyond Screen Production which has produced a range of specialist and popular factual programming, including Outback Kids, The Science of Self Harm, and Whitlam: the Power & the Passion. He has an extensive track record in children's programmes and animation, including Milly Molly, Spellbinder, Johnson and Friends, Backyard Science, Quest, LabRats Challenge, Toybox and Pipsqueaks. Ron has been involved in co-productions with Singapore, China, Canada, Poland, Japan, the Philippines and Germany. His latest project has been a co-production in China of Hoopla Doopla, a new children's programme for the ABC.

Michele Schofield is Senior Vice President, Programming & Marketing for A+E Networks Asia, based in Singapore. 

Schofield oversees the content and brands – across program scheduling, acquisitions, original production commissions, on-air creative, as well as trade, affiliate and consumer marketing – for Lifetime®, HISTORY®, bio.®, H2™ and Crime & Investigation Network®, across a regional footprint of South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

When considering original production commissions or co-production opportunities, A+E Networks Asia requires a level of Asian content and relevance.   Looking at series that feature real-life characters, as well as series in the food, travel and lifestyle space.  Short-running series or specials featuring real crime stories from Asia are also commissioned.

Prior to joining A+E Networks Asia in 2007, Schofield worked in Hong Kong for Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, where she headed the program scheduling, commissioning and acquisitions for the company’s Asia Pacific networks, including Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Pogo.  She joined the company in 2002 as Program Manager for Cartoon Network Australia/New Zealand, based in Sydney, before her move to Hong Kong in 2004.  Prior to joining Turner, Schofield held positions with Paramount Pictures, Discovery Networks, and various film and television productions in Los Angeles. 

Schofield is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production from Queensland University of Technology. 

Charles Schuerhoff has thirty-five years experience in the field of international television program distribution plus six years in production. In 1973 he started the international distribution office of WGBH TV in Boston. In 1980, he founded CS Associates, a distribution company specialized in documentaries including such titles as Ken Burns' JAZZ, Alex Gibney's 'The Trials of Henry Kissinger', and Martin Scorcese presents THE BLUES. In October of 2006, Charles returned to WGBH, joining WGBH International as Director of Acquisitions & Sales and merging the CS Associates catalogue. As of Jan. 1. 2009, WGBH International became PBS International - part of PBS Distribution, a new company that also includes PBS Video. The PBS International catalogue includes WGBH-produced programs such as NOVA, FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, as well as those made by many independent producers. PBS international does sales, pre-sales and co-productions in the international markets.

Matt Scully was series producer of ABC Science flagship series Catalyst. He worked as producer/director with Film Australia in Canberra and Sydney, and as series producer for Channel Seven’s Better Homes and Gardens.

Through several leading production companies, he has produced a wide variety of reality, entertainment, ob doc and art programs including the BBC format 'Honey, We’re Killing the Kids', 'Joker Poker', 'Stuart McGill Uncorked', 'Lock ‘n’ Load' with R. Lee Ermey, and HG Nelson’s 'Bush Slam' which Matt conceived and developed for the ABC.

films and casting TEMPLE pty ltd Producer/Director appointed as an Australia Day Ambassador and nominated as one of the 50 most powerful & influential film professionals in Australia, Anupam Sharma is a film maker, author, reality TV judge, and Australian consultant on Indian cinema. Recently appointed as the head of Australia India Film Fund, Anupam holds a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in film, TV, & Theatre from UWS and UNSW along with a thesis on Bollywood. He was the main judge and advisor of Australia's first India centric reality show Bollywood Star on SBS and commissioned to make the documentary Indian Aussies for Australian National Maritime Museum. Apart from developing his own documentary & feature film projects, Anupam is also co producing Australian features with Bill Bennett and John Winter, is a speaker on India Australia film/media links, and advisor to a number of government and private organisations on issues related to Indian cinema.

Karena has a background as a writer, producer and script developer and has worked across film and television in Australia and the UK. She has successfully run her own production company Pagan Films, developing and producing drama and and documentaries including the award winning Orientations: Chris Doyle, Stirred Not Shaken. For the past ten years she has worked as a development and production executive for various funding agencies including the former FFC and Screen NSW. She is currently the Director of Screen Tasmania, positioning the local industry for growth in online content creation, championing the voice of regional Australia and driving increased production activity to underpin long term industry sustainability.

Polly Staniford is an award-winning producer, writer and director and co-founder of film and TV production company Aquarius Films. Most recently she wrote an episode of the ABC3 children's drama 'Nowhere Boys' and directed the half hour documentary Brain as part of season 4 of ABC1's acclaimed Anatomy series. Brain profiles painter Jamie Daddo and his relationship with his identical twin brother, TV presenter Andrew Daddo. Prior to setting up Aquarius Films, Polly spent three years working as an in-house producer at Matchbox Pictures where she collaborated on a number of film and television projects with award-winning producers Tony Ayres and Michael McMahon, with whom she produced Miss South Sudan Australia and Season 2 of Anatomy She is currently developing a number of feature films, TV drama and factual projects.

Roger is a Development Producer at Showrunner Productions and has 15 years television production experience. Previous positions have included Commercial Production Manager and Producer/Director at Channel Nine. Projects completed include Just Add Water, Tom Hoad Cup International Water Polo program for International broadcast & Bon Scott documentary for Channel Nine.