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SARA KIDD - General Manager
Sara Kidd is the General Manager for a new innovative distribution company INDIEVILLGE, she has spent the last 10 years working in Film, Television, Marketing and Business Branding. She recently distributed the film Yogawoman into 35 cinemas in Australia and New Zealand and 42 cinemas in USA and Canada. The film had multiple sell out Premieres and Q+A events. Other projects she has worked on the distribution include the films Circle Of Lies, I Love This Place and AUSSIE RULES the world. She has assisted filmmakers with identifying and building audience fan hubs and structuring distribution and marketing strategies that appeal directly to their targeted market. She has an outstanding knowledge of digital platforms and interactive behaviors; she has a depth of understanding unique to the Australian film industry, especially in documentary. Her contacts with cinema owners and international distributors have been paramount to the success of her clients. 

INDIEVILLAGE

These are exciting times for filmmakers with unprecedented access to our audiences across the world 24/7. In this radically changing era we can now be in control of our films from conception through to sales. No longer must we wait for permission.

INDIEVILLAGE is at the forefront of this new era.

With your total involvement and ownership INDIEVILLAGE starts plotting your film’s success from Day 1. We provide consulting services that assist with every stage of your project. Whether it's a documentary, film, web series, TV program or simple YouTube videos, we will tailor services to suit your needs. INDIEVILLAGE offers advice to give your project the best possible outcome for a global market.

The most important thing to remember is the sooner you start the better. INDIEVILLAGE will save you time, money and disappointment.   

INDIEVILLAGE starts with YOU telling US about YOUR PROJECT and where you would like to take it. From there we can go on to discuss any of the following strategies:

•Outline Achievable Goals and tactical support to Independent Filmmakers 

•Design distribution strategies that can be used to pitch to potential investors

•Design a Release Strategy 

•National and International Theatrical Release 

•VOD and Other Available Platforms 

•International Distribution 

•Securing Domestic and Foreign Partners 

•Design a Launch Strategy

•Branding, PR and Strategic Marketing 

•Social Media Strategy 

•Grass Roots Outreach and Growing a Strong Audience Database

•Website and Payment Gateway

•Festivals 

•Establishing Institutional Partnerships 

•Merchandise and Products 

•National and International DVD Replication and Fulfillment 

•Deliverables 

Caroline has worked in television programme and clip sales for several years, licensing content to broadcasters worldwide for a variety of uses. Previously working for Paramount and Warner Brothers in Australia, Caroline joined ITN Source with a wealth of industry knowledge.   

ITN Source, footage sales arm of the Independent Television News, is one of the world?s leading providers of archive video content. Proud to play a part in providing film-makers, TV producers, publishers and researchers with content to enhance their programmes and documentaries. ITN Source manage and license footage from 1896 to present-day, from ITN and partner archives including, Reuters, ITV, NBC News, Fox News, Fox Movietone, ANI and other specialist collections. 

Find the footage you need; from international news and events to entertainment, historic newsreels, wildlife, stock footage and more. Access rare, quality footage from the most iconic moments in history - Search, view and download online at www.itnsource.com

Jacqueline Willinge is the Managing Director of Joined Up Films and brings her extensive international business and finance experience to her role as a Producer. Most recently Jacqueline worked as an Executive Producer on the highly acclaimed factual format Who's Been Sleeping In My House? for ABC1. This original factual format has been optioned in a multiple territories around the world including the UK, Belgium and NZ.

Thierry has recently joined Joined Up as a Development Executive. Prior to joining Joined Up, Thierry was Deputy Commissioning and Development Editor for ABC Children's Television, where he commissioned over 300 hours of children's factual television, including the hit series Bushwhacked!, Steam Punks!, Splatalot, Prank Patrol, and Dancing Down Under. Before joining the ABC, Thierry worked as a director and producer in the United States and Australia. He has worked on a number of factual formats, including the Emmy winning Queer Eye, Emmy winning Top Chef, Emmy nominated Project Runway, The Biggest Loser, American Masters, and Best Week Ever. Thierry has also worked for NBC Universal in both development and production.

UK born and raised, Daniel moved to Perth over 10 years ago having worked for broadcasters all over the world. For the last 8 of those 10 years he rose steadily through the ranks at the ABC in Perth where he finished up Exec. producing around 100 hours of content. As the Creative Director of Joined Up, Dan is the driving force behind the development department and recently series produced Australia's Secret Heroes for SBS and Who's Been Sleeping In My House? Series 3 for ABC1.

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Nick has been a participant in the film industry for most of his 41 years, and a professional for the last 10. In his role at Madman Entertainment, Nick works both in the assessment and acquisition of films and programming for Australia and New Zealand as well as working across the release of these films into the territory. He has worked across the release of over 400 feature and documentary films across various rights exploitation. As a key part of his role, Nick has assessed 100?s of Australian and foreign scripts, treatments and rough cuts with a view to acquiring the films for distribution in Australia and New Zealand. Nick is also Head of Production at Madman and has feature documentary SICKLY SWEET currently in production.

Susie works as part of the unscripted team developing and producing original and formatted programs. Prior to taking up her role with Matchbox Pictures, Susie spent the last ten years as a freelance producer in a variety of genres, producing content for ABC, Seven, Ten, Nine, SBS and the Discovery Channel. As well as a strong track record in Factual Entertainment, in 2010 Susie's feature documentary for the ABC, Rudely Interrupted, was nominated for an AFI for best documentary under one hour.

Kylie works as part of the unscripted team developing and producing original and formatted programs. Kylie has an extensive background in unscripted television production with notable credits including Big Brother, The Amazing Race, Prank Patrol and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Kylie's independent documentaries have been screened nationally on ABC, SBS, Discovery and Channel Seven and her short films have been screened around the world.

Ed Punchard is a Managing Director of Prospero Productions. He has produced many internationally award-winning documentaries. In 1988 Ed survived the world's worst ever offshore oil rig disaster on board the Piper Alpha in the North Sea, when it exploded with the loss of 167 lives. This incident ended Ed«'s eight year career offshore and began his role as a documentary film-maker. He advised in the making of programmes for World in Action ITV, First Tuesday ITV, Yorkshire Television and BBC Panorama.

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

Julia Redwood established Prospero Productions with Ed Punchard in Perth in 1991. In addition to being joint Managing Director, Julia is a multi award winning Producer, Director and Writer. Her role within Prospero spans a broad spectrum; in addition to overseeing production and the research and development of new ideas, she heads up the marketing and distribution overseas of new and completed projects.

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

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

Marketing & Development Coordinator at Prospero Productions.

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.

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. 

Dave Braithwaite is a digital-content specialist, with experience at some of Australia’s top publishers. 

He joined SBS in 2010 as Executive Producer, News & Current Affairs Online, before moving to SBS Online as Managing Editor. 

Dave previously worked as a cross-platform journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, and as Online News Editor for The Age. 

Sam Griffin is an investment manager at Screen Australia who works across the International (IDP) , General (GDP) and Signature Funds. She has worked in film and television for the past 15 years. With a background in print journalism she moved from Sydney to the U.S. in 1996 where she worked as a director/producer for a New York production company. Prior to leaving the U.S. she was the supervising producer for a suite of cable TV lifestyle series. Sam has also produced and directed documentaries and theatre productions, as well as documentary for public radio.

Alyssa Orvis is an Investment / Development Manager in the Documentary Unit at Screen Australia. Prior to that she divided her time between Sydney Film Festival and the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, where she ran guest and industry teams for both events and advised on programming. She has also worked at Tribeca Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and the Bicycle Film Festival.

Elena has worked in a variety of roles within Screen Australia since 2009. Her work has included, as part of the Marketing Department, building audiences and profiling Australian films within Australia and internationally. More recently Elena has joined the State and Industry Partnerships team, working with Senior Manager, Chris Oliver, on the Enterprise Program and on building an increased Australian film and TV presence in Asia and facilitating business opportunities in new Asian markets. These strands converged in 2013 with the staging of the inaugural two- day Australia-China Documentary Forum in Beijing, a part of the Enterprise Asia program. Elena has a broad knowledge of the screen industry in Asian countries and has attended various festivals and markets including Busan International Film Festival, FICCI Frames, Asian Side of the Doc and the Sichuan TV Festival. Elena is interested in talking with you if you want to learn more about the screen industry in Asia.

Pru recently joined Screen Australia as an Assessment Manager to assess provisional and final certificate applications in the Producer Offset and Co-Production Unit (POCU). Prior to joining Screen Australia she worked for five years with the POCU as an independent film production consultant. Pru has worked extensively as an independent production accountant, financial controller, production manager and line producer in the Australian film and television industry. Her more than 20 years' industry experience includes documentary and factual series - BrightSparks for Beyond Productions, A Current Affair - Summer Edition and Michael Willesee's Street Stories for Channel 9 and on one-off documentaries - Cenotaph for the ABC and Bull Sharks in the Backyard for Nat Geo Wild. She has also worked on numerous feature films and drama mini-series including Parer's War, A Heartbeat Away, The Wolverine and Remote Area Nurse.

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.

Catherine Nebauer is the Investment and Business Development Executive for Screen Queensland, where she overseas investment across television, film and multi-platform for the State Agency.  Prior to joining Screen Queensland she set up TaleFinn Entertainment. Established in 2008 TaleFinn Entertainment offers Consultancy and Executive Production services. Clients include Movie Network Channels, Studio Ish, SBS Television, Fremantle Entertainment, Foxtel and Vision Plus Entertainment (Malaysia.) Catherine was previously General Manager, SVP for Nickelodeon Asia where she oversaw distribution, ad sales, marketing and programming. Catherine was responsible for launching new channels in Korea, New Zealand as well as an 8 hour block on Free TV network Global in Indonesia. Before moving to Asia, Catherine was the Managing Director for Nickelodeon Australia where she was responsible for launching Nick Jr. as well as delivering the # 1 Channel and on line portal for kids. 

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.

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.