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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.

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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.

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Andrew Ogilvie established independent production company, Electric Pictures, in 1992. Since then he has earned a reputation as one of Australia's leading independent producers of award winning factual programming. Throughout his career Andrew has produced programmes for many of the world's major broadcasters, is an experienced co-producer having worked with French and Italian independent production companies, and maintains very successful co-production relationships with two UK producers. In 2007 Andrew established a post-production facility, Colourbox, and in 2009 formed a distribution company, EP Independent. Andrew also established a Sydney & Toronto Office to broaden the Electric Pictures pool of talent and production opportunities.

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As Head of Development, Greg supervises the development slate at Electric Pictures and contributes to the generation of new ideas and the assessment of submissions. Greg also participates in the further development of selected ideas, carrying out the research and writing required to fully work up film treatments. During production, Greg is often involved in sourcing archival material.

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Andrea is Electric Pictures' Executive Producer based in Toronto, Canada. She has been part of the Electric Pictures team since 2005 and after five years as a Producer and Head of Production in the Perth office she moved to Toronto. Andrea's current focus is on creating a North American presence for the company and developing content suitable for both Australian and Canadian audiences. Andrea has produced documentary series and one-offs for a number of international broadcasters in genres ranging from history to science to pop culture.

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Jude handles the distribution and publicity for both Electric Pictures and its distribution company, EP Independent.  This includes managing all media rights on completed works, the digital distribution of content, and the release and retailing of DVD titles. She was previously a member of the development team where she undertook research and sourced archival material for various productions.

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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.

Chris Hilton is one of Australia's most prolific and award winning factual producer/directors who has made films across a broad spectrum of subjects for the world's major broadcasters. Chris has executive produced or produced over 200 hours of quality documentary for broadcasters such as PBS, BBC, Channel Four, Discovery, National Geographic and Arte as well as all Australian networks. His programs have won major awards in Australia including Walkley and Logie awards. Recent productions include: Miracle on Everest, The Colony, Policing the Pacific, The Floating Brothel, Ten Pound Poms, The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, Scorched, Solo, Voyage to the Planets, Seduction in the City(Au Bonheur des Dames) The Grammar of Happiness and Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide.

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.

Ricky Sutton is a career journalist who made a move into digital early. He has now spent 15 years working with and for leading media companies in Australia, the US and the UK including News Corp, Fairfax Media, Microsoft and others. Four years ago, he founded Fairfax's video on demand network smh.tv and has since worked in the forefront of the VOD industry. .tv is now one of Australia and New Zealand's largest VOD destinations, available on 16 devices enjoying rights deals with more than 100 content providers including the BBC, Endemol, Fremantle, CNN right down to individual film makers.

Miriama BONO is in charge of the organization of the FIFO ( documentary film festival in Tahiti) since 2011. She is also a painter , an architect , and she is involved in cultural events in French Polynesia.

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. 

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.

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.

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