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FRAMED #07 –NOISE: Putting It Together!
Matthew Saville
Writer / Director
Matthew’s films have screened in over two hundred festivals. His short feature Roy Hollsdotter Live screened in 2003 at the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Locarno, Cork, and Montreal and Commonwealth International film festivals as well as SBS television. In 2002 the script for the film was short listed for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. In June 2003, the film won the Dendy Award for best short film (over 15mins) at the Sydney Film Festival, and Best Original Script for Television at the 2003 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, and was nominated for a Film Critics’ Circle of Australia, and two AFI Awards. The film was voted best short film at the 2003 Lexus IF Awards, where Matthew was also honoured with the Best Rising Talent Award.
Matthew has been a prolific contributor to the recent crop of Australian television sketch comedy, directing both skithouse for Channel Ten and Big Bite for the Seven Network. He has also worked in television drama, directing The Secret Life of Us and The Surgeon for Channel Ten. In 2005 Matthew directed the very successful comedy We Can Be Heroes, which screened last year on the Sundance Channel, won the Rose d’Or for Best Comedy Series, and was nominated for best comedy series at the 2006 Banff Awards. It won two Logie awards in the same year. Matthew recently directed The King, a biopic about television iconoclast, Graham Kennedy.
Trevor Blainey
Producer
In 1973 Trevor enrolled in Business Studies at Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne. He spent the year playing pooling and watching films and failing Business Studies. Terrified at the prospect of getting a job he then enrolled in and completed a degree in Economics at La Trobe University. Forestalling his real interests, he worked as an accountant for Coca-Cola AMATIL until 1986 when he took up the position of Finance Manager at the Australian Children’s Television Foundation. In 1993 he left the ACTF to work as a freelance Production Accountant with a view to producing his own films.
As an accountant he has worked on nearly 30 films including Three Dollars, Chopper, The Last of the Ryans, My Brother Jack, Crackerjack and After The Deluge. In 2002, nearly 30 years after missing an Accounting 101 lecture to go and see Play It Again Sam he produced his first film, a short feature called Roy Hollsdotter Live.
He is currently financing and developing a television series called Bad Debts written by the multi-award winning crime novelist Peter Temple featuring the character Jack Irish. His next feature is called Rams To The Slaughter written by Marieke Hardy and Kirsty Fisher.
Luke Elliot
Actor, Dean Stouritis
A seasoned theatre actor Luke has appeared in over 20 plays and has won a coveted Green Room Award for his work in A Party in Fitzroy. He has been seen on television in roles in Crashburn, MDA, Blue Healers and Stingers. Luke's film credits include Holidays On The River Yarra, Road To Nhill and Roy Hollsdotter Live which was directed by Matt Saville.
Bryony Marks
Music Composer
Bryony has composed music for around twenty films, including Sweetheart (2003), Roy Hollsdotter Live (2002) and Franz and Kafka (1997), all written and directed by Matthew Saville. She has written many works for chamber forces, including three string quartets which have been recorded for ABC Classic FM by Australian quartet DeFLOCKed; 10/9 (2001), a sextet performed by the Zurich Ensemble for New Music; an opera exerpt staged by Chamber Made opera in their concert series From the Lip (2001); In Transit (2001), a quintet commissioned by Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, and Bush Dawn (2004), commissioned and performed by the Victoria Welsh Male Voice Choir (who, incidentally, are featured in the soundtrack of Noise). In 2005, Bryony was Music Director and composer on Chris Lilley’s ABC series, We Can Be Heroes, and foundation composer on Southern Star drama for Network 10, The Surgeon. In 2006, as well as Noise she scored Roving Enterprise and Channel Ten’s Real Stories. Bryony has written the music for the Foxtel/GTV 9 telemovie The King and Chris Lilley’s series for the ABC, Summer Heights High.
Emma Bortignon
Sound Designer
With 10 years industry experience, Emma Bortignon has worked on over 20 feature films as Sound Designer/Mixer/Sound Effects Editor. She has been Nominated for five AFI Awards and, in 2007 won the AFI Award for Best Sound (feature) for her Sound Design on Noise. She also won the Australian Screen Sound Guild's Best Sound Design and Best Mix Award as well as The IF Awards Best Sound Award (Feature) for Noise. Emma has also worked on numerous documentaries (Words From The City), short films (Jerrycan) and television series (Underbelly). She is currently Sound Designing Eric Bana's Feature Documentary titled Love Of The Beast to be released in 2009.
Bryce Menzies
Executive Producer
Bryce has worked in the film industry for over 25 years. Bryce's first experience in the film industry was in 1982 when he played a man in overalls opposite Gerard Kennedy! He has now worked as a lawyer on over 300 productions, films, series etc. Bryce has worked on some of Australia’s best known films in the 80s, 90s and naughties. His executive producer credits include Malcolm (1985), Death in Brunswick (1990), Two Hands (1999), The Tracker (2002), Ten Canoes (2006) and Noise (2007). His legal work can be seen in Muriel’s Wedding (1994), Ned Kelly (2002), The Proposition (2005), Like Minds (2006), Irresistible (2006), No. 2 (2006), Clubland (2007), Death Defying Acts (2007), Disgrace (2007) and The Children of Huang Shi (2007). He continues to act as legal adviser on feature films, shorts, documentaries, television series. Due to his flourishing legal practice he only occasionally executive produces. Bryce is currently a member of the Film Victoria Board. His previous board memberships have been with Screen Tasmania and South Australian Film Corporation. Bryce was the initial Chair of the current Melbourne International Film Festival when it re-invented itself in 1985. Bryce is a Partner at Marshalls & Dent Lawyers.
FRAMED 2008 is generously supported by Film Victoria.
