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  

Ruari Elkington Australia

Antidote Films is one of Australia's leading independent distributors of high quality, thought provoking Australian and international documentary and feature films.

Antidote Films is only part of the story. Cinema Ventures, Australia's first (and still the only) non-profit film distributor, shows how your community action group can use many of the films found here for fundraisers and filmmaker Q&A screenings.

Discover beamafilm and the world to come. Most Antidote titles (and many more) are available on-demand, via beamafilm, streamed directly to your computer or digital TV.

Ruari Elkington
Antidote Films
Distribution Consultant/Researcher 
Bio

Ruari has worked with distributor Gil Scrine Films since 2009 including the company's evolution into Antidote Films. This work included acquisitions for the VoD platform beamafilm and the not-for-profit theatrical distributor, Cinema Ventures.  With a focus on documentary and the education market Ruari now consults in acquisition/distribution for Antidote Films and others while completing his PhD at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology. 

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 
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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 
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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.

Fiona Gilroy Australia

Flame Distribution is a specialist factual content distributor with offices in Sydney, London and Europe. Our catalogue of carefully selected programs allows us to concentrate on each title and work innovatively in promoting content across traditional and emerging revenue channels, feeding back market responses to producers.

Fiona Gilroy
Flame Distribution
Content Sales and Acquisitions Director 
Bio

Beginning at Film Australia in 1989, Fiona built strong relationships with the independent production sector and content buyers. As Content Sales Manager at SBS, Fiona worked with producers to sell completed programs and helped secure presales and other market interest. Establishing her consultancy business Fi‚'sAbility in 2009, Fiona worked with producers to maximise the commercial opportunities for their content and explore new business opportunities. Now working as the Content Sales and Acquisitions Manager at Flame Distribution, Fiona and her team represent factual content from independent producers into all markets worldwide.

Erica Glynn 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.

Erica Glynn
Screen Australia
Head, Indigenous Department 
Profession
Bio

Erica Glynn is the Head of the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia. The funding programs of Screen Australia's Indigenous Department support creatively ambitious projects and people, and imaginative, resonant stories authored by Indigenous Australians. We aim to assist the career development of talented writers, directors and producers who have the potential to make a significant contribution to screen culture and the national cultural life by actively engaging at all stages with key creatives in the development and production of their works.

John Godfrey Australia

With a background as Australia’s multicultural broadcaster, SBS holds a unique place in the Australian media landscape. As described in the SBS Charter, SBS’s principal function is to provide multilingual, multicultural and Indigenous radio, television and digital media services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians, reflecting Australia’s diverse society.  SBS inspires all Australians to explore, appreciate and celebrate our diverse world, and in doing so contributes to social cohesion.

 

SBS carries out this function through an ever-increasing number of distribution platforms including free-to-air television channels, subscription television, analogue and digital radio, online, and via mobile devices and apps.

 

For more information, please visit www.sbs.com.au

Website:
www.sbs.com.au
John Godfrey
SBS
Head of Documentaries 
Profession
Bio

John worked for 10 years in the UK series/exec producing a range of factual programming across a range of genres for Channel 4 and BBC2. His career in the UK included the ground breaking Channel 4 series Eurotrash. He has been in Australia for 10 years, and has produced everything from documentary, to popular culture series (SBS and Discovery).  Most recently, he worked at Becker Entertainment as Head of Development and Executive Producer. He has been SBS Commissioning Editor of Documentaries since July 2008, and commissions include Who Do You think You Are? (Series 3 and 4), The Tall Man and Immigration Nation – The Secret History of Us. Now Head of Documentaries, John is responsible for the whole documentary slate, and in particular looks after indigenous and contemporary documentaries including Once Upon A Time In Cabramatta and Go Back To Where You Came From.

Mitzi Goldman Australia

The Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF) is unique in Australia as the only organisation that builds and nurtures partnerships between filmmakers, non profits and philanthropic funders to enable them to tell stories and build campaigns that inspire change.  

Susan and Mitzi are ready to take your meetings relating to Good Pitch Australia.

Mitzi Goldman
Documentary Australia Foundation
CEO 
Profession
Bio

Mitzi has written, produced, edited and directed award winning international documentaries for over 25 years. Her films have screened in festivals around the world and have received many nominations and awards. She has made commissioned work for ABC, SBS, ITVS, ARTE, NGTI, Ch4, YLE and sold her documentaries to many other international broadcasters. Recent credits include End of the Rainbow, Memoirs of a Plague, A Common Purpose and Love & Sex in an Age of Pornography. From 2002 - 2008 Mitzi was Co-Head of Documentary at AFTRS. Her production company, Looking Glass Pictures Pty Ltd, specialises in social impact documentary. Mitzi is the CEO of the Documentary Australia Foundation, connecting private funders, non profit organisations and documentary filmmakers, facilitating new sources of funding for documentary and inspiring social change filmmaking. Mitzi holds a BA from University of Sydney and a Phd in Cultural Studies.

Mitzi and Susan are ready to take your meetings relating to Good Pitch Australia.