Susan MacKinnon 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.

Susan MacKinnon
Documentary Australia Foundation
COO 
Profession
Bio

Susan has over 25 years of producing award winning films - Paul Kelly Stories of Me, Honeybee Blues, The Oasis, Life In Movement, Global Haywire, 4... She is a co-founder and director of the Documentary Australia Foundation, established to connect private funders, not for profit organisations and filmmakers, facilitating a new source of funding and establishing new partnerships around documentaries.

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

Fabio Mancini Italy

DOC3 is a summer slot focused on social issues, narrated through strong individual stories. Stories about problems which are not very present in the daily broadcasting of news programs.

Website:
www.rai.it
Fabio Mancini
DOC3 / RAITRE
Commissioning Editor 
Profession
Bio

Born in Rome in 1970. He worked in RAISAT and, as cowriter, for STORIE MALEDETTE on RAI3. Since 2012, he work as Commissioning Editor for DOC3.

Joseph Maxwell 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
Joseph Maxwell
SBS
Commissioning Editor - Documentaries 
Profession
Bio

Before moving to Australia to take up his role as commissioning editor for SBS, Joseph developed, directed and produced high end, prime time documentaries for most of the major broadcasters in Britain. He also set up his own production company. In Australia his credits as a commissioning editor include, “Dirty Business: How Mining Made Australia” and “Who Do You Think You Are.” He has a series of new international co pro’s in production, in both science and history. 

Jeni McMahon Australia

Film Victoria is the State Government agency that provides strategic leadership and assistance to the film, television and games sectors of Victoria. We invest in projects and people, and promote Victoria as a world-class production destination nationally and internationally.

Website:
film.vic.gov.au
Jeni McMahon
Film Victoria
Development and Investment Manager 
Profession
Bio

Jeni McMahon joined Film Victoria as Development and Investment Manager in July 2013. Prior to this she was Managing Director of Rebel Films where she produced a diverse range of highly successful, award winning documentaries with a uniquely Australian focus.  Jeni has worked with several of Australia’ s most established documentary filmmakers as well as nurturing several award winning emerging directors.

Recent  credits include  "Then the Wind Changed" winner of the 2013 AACTA Award for Best Documentary under one hour and the 2012 Walkley award for Documentary and Coniston, winner of the 2012 ATOM award for best dramatised documentary. 

Andrew McPhail Australia

Screen Tasmania is the Tasmanian Government agency responsible for developing Tasmania’s screen industry through the production of films, television drama and documentaries and digital media. Screen Tasmania staff provide a bespoke service to industry with a clear aim of increasing production activity to create jobs and attract investment to Tasmania. It supports a broad range of productions and strives to be innovative and flexible in a rapidly changing screen industry.  In particular, Screen Tasmania’s Digital Media Fund provides investment for games, web content and animations.. Screen Tasmania is also committed to funding factual entertainment productions and has a proud history of supporting successful documentaries.

Andrew McPhail
Screen Tasmania
Business and Production Investment Manager 
Profession
Bio

Andrew joined the Screen Tasmania team with over 25 years experience in the industry as an Executive Producer, Producer and Writer.

Andrew produced some of the most acclaimed music videos of the 1980s and Alex Proyas' debut cult feature film Spirits of The Air - Gremlins of the Clouds. In 2001 Andrew co-produced the award winning feature film He Died With a Felafel in his Hand.

Andrew has also developed a variety of projects, writing several film treatments and screenplays including co-writing the feature film adaptation of the book Leftovers, which was selected for the prestigious scriptwriting workshop Aurora 2005 working with Gus van Sant and John Sayles.

Always passionate about the screen industry, Andrew continues to relish the opportunities for innovation in this exciting and ever changing field.

Kristian Moliere Australia

Formed in March 2011, Triptych Pictures slate encompasses television, feature film and multi-media projects, with the development and production of factual and drama television series forming the cornerstone of the company’s vision. Coming from diverse yet related backgrounds, the Triptych producers bring a wealth of production experience and knowledge to the table, each having worked in the industry professionally for over 15 years, ideally situating the company for domestic and international co-production opportunities.

Producing credits include feature films, Boxing Day, Lucky Country, The Babadook (Sundance 2014), The Dead Speak Back, Touch, with co-producing credits on Shut Up Little Man! an Audio Misadventure (Sundance 2011) and One Eyed Girl; factual television series producing credits include mY Generation (2008 SBS), Croc College (2013 ABC1) and Jillaroo School (2014 ABC1), as well as the multi-media multi-platform project Stasis, currently in the first stage of production.

Kristian Moliere
Triptych Pictures
Producer 
Bio

In 2007, Kristian produced the feature film, Boxing Day, with writer/director, Kriv Stenders. The film was screened at over 20 international festivals and won the 2007 ADG Finders Award. Kristian reunited with Kriv for Lucky Country (2009) and produced the feature film The Babadook (2013). Kristian has produced an AFC short feature, The 13th House (2003) and award winning short films The Bully (2009) and The Moment (2011). For television, Kristian was a series producer on mY Generation (2008) and was executive producer of two 6 part factual entertainment series for ABC1; Croc College (2012) and Jillaroo School (2013).

Leila Monks United Kingdom

Zig Zag Productions is one of the UK’s foremost independent television production companies formed in 1999 by Danny Fenton and Kevin Utton.

With offices in London and New York, Zig Zag has produced over 600 hours of non scripted programming and has grown to become an internationally recognised, respected and award winning television producer both in the UK, USA and internationally. Zig Zag has produced programming for broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Five, TLC, MTV, Fox, National Geographic, Discovery, OWN, Logo and Syfy. The company has also won numerous awards including the Rose D’or for Best Format.

Zig Zag was rated 10th top sports producer, 7th top factual producer and 9th in the top specialist factual producers in the most recent Broadcast Indie Survey and is consistently listed in the Realscreen Global 100 Top Independent Production Companies.

Leila Monks
Zig Zag Productions
VP: Commercial and Current Production 
Profession
Bio
Commercial and creative factual/non scripted television executive. Proven skills in raising money for production through original commissions, coproductions, pre-sales and distribution. Specialty territories: UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Middle East and Scandinavia. Emerging Executive Producer with credits across a range of genres/broadcasters. Highly respected within field and excellent profile internationally. Currently Vice-President: Commercial and Current Production at one of largest independent production companies, Zig Zag Productions. Closed deals well in excess of £4.5 million and responsible for 14 hours going into production within last 18 months. Previous role was Director of factual distributor TVF International and credited with growing the company turnover by average of 40% year on year. Judge at Realscreen's "Factual Entertainment Awards" in Los Angeles, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Panelist at the Televisual Intelligent Factual Festival 2011: "How to Win the Coproduction Game". Presented for PACT on topics including "Coproduction" and "Emerging Markets".

Richard Moore Australia

Umbrella Entertainment has been in operation since 2001. With a catalogue of over 1,500 titles its a 100% Australian owned and operated distributor of filmed entertainment specializing in a range of content for theatrical, home entertainment, TV broadcasting and Video on Demand.

Richard Moore
Umbrella Entertainment Pty Ltd
Theatrical Distribution Manager 
Bio

Theatrical Distribution Manager of Umbrella Entertainment

YES - Umbrella Entertainment has a theatrical deaprtment and we are always searching for new Australian titles . Currently we have a diverse selection of films on our 2014 slate including BABADOOK - recently at Sundance , WORDS AND PICTURES - Fred Schepisi's new film , THE LAST IMPRESARIO , the opening night film here in Adelaide, and the new Jim Mickle film called COLD IN JULY.

Umbrella invests at concept and script stage and is keen to talk if you believe you have a suitable project .

Richard Moore , ex Melbourne and Brisbane film festival director,ex producer and director of various documentaries is now running the Umbrella Theatrical department    

David Morrison Australia

Showrunner Productions is a wholly owned subsidiary of the publicly listed agency, Adcorp Australia. We produce factual and drama series for the international markets, as well as local stories and concepts for Australian broadcasters. Our team is highly experienced and motivated to produce quality television in an ever changing market.

David Morrison
Showrunner Productions
CEO 
Bio

David is the CEO of the Adcorp communications group which includes Showrunner Productions. He is the Executive Producer of the format program Wimp 2 Warrior which is currently in production.

Katy Morrison Australia

Chemical Media is an independent production company specialising in factual entertainment, travel & lifestyle programming.

Established by the team which successfully brought the Lonely Planet brand to television, Chemical’s founders have made hundreds of hours of programming for broadcasters such as Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Al Jazeera English, Channel 4 and SBS.

Along the way we’ve produced shows on everything from contemporary British gangsters to traditional Chinese medicine, handled location shoots from Alaska to Arnhem Land, been hailed by prime ministers, denounced as people-smugglers, and frequently missed the last bus home.

Focusing on strong storytelling and intelligent entertainment, the Chemical team has created factual documentaries, returnable travel series, break-through social media campaigns and occasionally even impressed our mums.

With Australian roots and a global outlook, we’ve forged strategic film finance relationships with partners around the world and tailored unique content for brands such as Nokia, Tourism Australia and American Express.

Website:
chemicalmedia.tv
Katy Morrison
Chemical Media
Multimedia Producer 
Bio

Producer Katy Morrison meandered into factual storytelling via a research degree in history and a minor in medical microbiology - a combination that had nothing to do with film-making and everything to do with the forensic pathologist detective shows that her mother liked to watch on the ABC on a Saturday night. After flexing her muscles with a human rights organisations in South America and moonlighting as a travel writer in Buenos Aires, she has since worked on over 30 hours of broadcast television. Her passion for experimenting with new ways of telling stories has led Katy to working on films about virtual worlds, iPhone docos utilizing Augmented Reality and producing interactive documentaries.