Phoenix Satellite Television Hong Kong SAR China

Beginning operation on 31 March, 1996, based in Hong Kong, Phoenix Satellite Television has been striving constantly to provide quality Mandarin programming to the global Chinese communities, with an ultimate objective of "shortening the distance between the Chinese around the world". The dynamism of this massive market, combined with successful expansion strategies, has enabled Phoenix to develop a comprehensive multi-dimensional media platform.

Today, Phoenix Chinese Channel, Phoenix InfoNews Channel, Phoenix Movies Channel, Phoenix North America Chinese Channel and Phoenix Hong Kong Channel, broadcasting to audiences in the Asia Pacific, Europe, America, Africa, the Middle East, Australia etc., covering more than 180 countries and regions. Besides World and Greater China news coverage, Phoenix TV has been very popular among the elite group of Chinese audiences for its insight and inspiring programs ranging from documentaries; current affairs slots and talk shows.

Mr. Haibo Huang would like to meet with delegates who have programs that relate to the Phoenix Chinese Channel program sphere.

Haibo Huang
Haibo Huang
Deputy Chief Editor of Phoenix Chinese Channel 
Profession
Bio

Mr. Haibo Huang received his education at Communication University of China, Waseda University Japan, Hong Kong University of Science in the field of journalism, film studies and management. He joined Phoenix TV in 2002 after serving China Central Television for several years. With more than 20 years experience in the field of journalism and television industry, he participates in many of the productions; schemes and supervising of feature programs and major documentaries. He himself is also anchoring several current affairs shows and documentary TV columns and sometimes appears at news reporting fronts. Proficient in Chinese, English and Japanese. He is now serving as the Deputy Chief Editor of the Chinese Channel of Phoenix Satellite Television.

Mr. Haibo Huang would like to meet with delegates who have programs that relate to the Phoenix Chinese Channel program sphere.

Prospero Productions 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

Ed Punchard
Ed Punchard
Managing Director 
Profession
Bio

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
Julia Redwood
Managing Director 
Profession
Bio

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 Fortune
Jules Fortune
Head of Production 
Profession
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

Suzie Punchard
Suzie Punchard
Marketing & Development Coordinator 
Profession
Bio

Marketing & Development Coordinator at Prospero Productions.

Rare Media China

Founded in 2001, Rare Media is one of China’s leading documentary content suppliers. The firm's diverse catalogue features more than 2,000 hours of documentary programming, and over 20,000 hours of raw footage. Moreover, Rare Media produces in average 70 minutes of new content per day. In 2011, we launched “Raredoc Time”, a 2.5h daily slot providing documentary programming to city-level TV broadcasters throughout China. Apart from our in-house production and international co-productions, we acquire over 300 hours of documentaries from overseas each year.


Website:
www.raredoc.com
Ruifang Hua
Ruifang Hua
Head of European Business Development 
Profession
Bio

Ruifang Hua is Rare Media's representative in Europe, based in Paris. In charge of all aspects of international business development, including acquisitions, coproduction, and distribution.

Real to Reel Productions Inc. Canada

Real to Reel Productions, helmed by Bill Spahic and Anne Pick,  produces award winning films with compelling stories, strong characters, across a broad spectrum of subjects from series to docs to features.

Their latest film ANIMISM:PEOPLE WHO LOVE OBJECTS premiered last September and is enoying worldwide sales including Australia. Current production includes: ECCENTRICS and NO LIMITS both feature docs directed by Academy Award winner John Zaritsky respectively celebrating people who dance to the beat of their own drum and according to a study live longer, happier, healthier lives than the rest of us and the thalidomide survivors still fighting for justice 50 years after this crippling drug was released internationally. Their German co-production GAMBLING ON EXTINCTION is also about to go into production. Real to Reel also has signed four co-pro agreements, two in 3D, with Norm Wilkinson’s Visionquest in Queensland and look forward to launching them later in the year. 

I am interested in meeting potential co-pro partners interested in series suitable for both domestic and international markets particularly in wildlife and 'non destination' focussed travel shows.

Website:
www.r2r.ca
Anne Pick
Anne Pick
VP & Executive Producer 
Profession
Bio

Anne Pick is an award-winning independent producer, director and story-editor. Her passion for story telling began as a teenager writing for her father‚'s country newspaper in South Australia. This led to a career in print and television journalism in Australia and Canada then as an independent filmmaker based in Toronto. Under her company banner Real to Reel Productions. Anne has a reputation for engaging and popular films and series. Learning to write from the front to the back pages of a newspaper ingrained an interest in all kinds of stories from social and political issues, to history, performing arts, science and natural history. Real to Reel is currently involved in several International co-productions, specifically with Australia and Germany in both 2D and 3D. Anne was a founding Board member and former co-chair of Hot Docs and is currently Co-Vice Chair of DOC Canada and on the board of Imaginative.

SBS 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
John Godfrey
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.

Joseph Maxwell
Joseph Maxwell
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. 

David Braithwaite
David Braithwaite
Managing Editor Online 
Profession
Bio

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. 

Screen Australia 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.

Sam Griffin
Sam Griffin
Investment/Development Manager, Documentary 
Profession
Bio

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
Alyssa Orvis
Industry/Development Manager, Documentary 
Profession
Bio

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 Guest
Elena Guest
Project Manger, State and Industry Partnerships 
Profession
Bio

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 Donovan
Pru Donovan
Assessment Manager, Producer Offset and Co-production Unit 
Profession
Bio

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
Erica Glynn
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.

Screen Queensland Australia

Screen Queensland's role is to develop and support the local screen industry, attract production to Queensland, and celebrate an active screen culture across the State. Locally, the State is a growing force in Australia's film industry landscape and a key contributor to the creative health of our nation. Globally, Queensland is known for its stunning locations, talented crew, and attractive financial incentives.

Catherine Nebauer
Catherine Nebauer
Production Investment & Business Development Executive 
Profession
Bio

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. 

Screen Tasmania 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.

Ms Karena Slaninka
Ms Karena Slaninka
Director 
Profession
Bio

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 McPhail
Andrew McPhail
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.

Screen West Australia

ScreenWest is Western Australia's screen funding and development agency, committed to working in partnership with the screen industry to develop, support and promote film, television and digital media production in Western Australia.

Ryan Hodgson
Ryan Hodgson
Productions Investment Manager 
Profession
Bio

Ryan has worked in the Australian screen industry for 18 years.  His drama producing credits include the feature films BLAME (Melbourne, Toronto and Chicago international film festivals and Cannes Cinephiles) and JUSTICE (Marcus Graham, Kerry Armstrong, Simon Westaway).  He has also produced over 80 advertising campaigns totalling over 170 commercials.  His commercial work has been a finalist and winner at the Campaign Brief Awards (Best TV Advertisement, Best TV Campaign) and Perth Advertising and Design Club Awards (Gold, Silver, Bronze Awards), a finalist at the AWARD Awards and featured on www.bestadsontv.com.

Ryan has previously worked as a Project Officer at ScreenWest (twice managing the agency's Screen Industry Partnership Fund) and was the Western Australian Chapter Head of Screen Producers Australia (SPA) for a three and a half year period between 2008-2011.  Ryan has been in his current role at ScreenWest for 18 months.

Sea Dog TV International Australia

Sea Dog TV International Pty Ltd is an experienced television production company based in Perth, Western Australia.  The Company was established in 2007 by Leighton and Jodie De Barros with the primary focus of expanding relationships within the television industry and producing high quality documentary programs. We have an extensive production history in factual programming, including natural history, wildlife and science.  Pushing the boundaries of film-making, the company makes programs that are unique, innovative and entertaining, while educating and inspiring audiences. 

Some of our major productions are the Hello Birdy factual entertainment series for ABC TV, starring well known actor William McInnes. Natural History/Wildlife documentary, The Search for the Ocean’s Super Predator for ABC TV, Al Rayyan TV, Smithsonian Channel, NHK and National Geographic Channel. Wildlife documentaries,  On a Wing and a Prayer for ABC TV and Whale Patrol for ABC TV and National Geographic Television International. 

Jodie De Barros
Jodie De Barros
CEO, Head of Finance and Business Affairs 
Bio

Jodie De Barros began her career in documentary filmmaking in 2007 when she established Sea Dog TV International based in Perth, WA with partner Leighton De Barros. Jodie has over 24 years experience in accounting, business and finance and is responsible for the financial and business affairs side of the business, along with executive producing, line producing and production accounting. Jodie has gone on to produce several wildlife/natural history documentaries, including Whale Patrol for ABC TV and National Geographic TV International, On a Wing and a Prayer for ABC TV, The Search for the Ocean's Super Predator for ABC TV, Al Rayyan TV, Smithsonian Channel, NHK and National Geographic Channel. With the most recent being factual entertainment series Hello Birdy for ABC TV with presenter William McInnes.

Leighton De Barros
Leighton De Barros
CEO, Head of Development and Production 
Bio

Four-time Emmy Award nominee Leighton De Barros has over 25 experience in the television industry, specialising in documentary filmmaking, as a producer, director, writer and cinematographer. He has won more than 15 industry awards and worked on many films broadcast by Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic, and has international clients including Survivor (CBS America) and the BBC Natural History Unit. In 2007 Leighton established Sea Dog TV International with partner Jodie De Barros and has gone on to produce, direct, write and shoot several documentaries, including the well rated The Search for the Ocean's Super Predator for ABC TV, Al Rayyan TV, NHK, Smithsonian Channel and National Geographic Channel, Hello Birdy a factual entertainment series for ABC TV with actor William McInnes, Shark Bay, Whale Patrol, and On a Wing and a Prayer for ABC TV and National Geographic.