| HOME | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | FESTIVAL | SPONSORS |
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| JESSE O'BRIEN Arrowhead | BEN PLAZZER The Heckler | MICHELLE LLOYD Sunday | JAMES HEWISON Snowtown, Warm Blood |
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| MAGGIE MILES Van Diemen's Land, Paper Planes, Force of Destiny | ANDREA BUCK The Jammed; Founder, Transparency Australia | CHRIS KAMEN Small is Beautiful | SANDY CAMERON The Infinite Man |
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| ALAN FINNEY Chair, Australian Film Institute | KYLIE EDDY Lean Filmmaking | SHAUN MILLER Shaun Miller Lawyers | NICOLAS GONDA Co-Founder & CEO, Tugg; The Tree of Life |
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| SIMON BRITTON ScreenPro | OLIVIER KAEMPFER Borrowed Time | DUSTIN CLARE Sunday | MARK GRENTELL Backyard Ashes |
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| STEVE MITCHELL The Heckler | RICK CHEN Pozible | CHRISTINE ROGERS I am Evangeline | STEPHEN LUBY Ruby Entertainment |
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| JULIE BYRNE Producer 'Touch', 'The Dead Speak Back', Line Producer 'The Babadook | CHRIS PENDER The Dream Children | SOPHIE HYDE 52 Tuesdays | GLENN MAYNARD Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla |
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| KIAH ROACHE-TURNER Wyrmwood | ALEXANDROS OUZAS Plague | KATRINA SEDGWICK CEO, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) | SHANE BURRELL Final Post |
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| IAN DIXON Crushed, Wee Jimmy, Interference | KIMBERLY DILTS Angel's Perch | JT ARBOGAST Angel's Perch | STUART SIMPSON Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla |
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| JESSICA PEARCE The Legend of Ben Hall | MATTHEW HOLMES The Legend of Ben Hall | JANE CORDEN Moneypenny: Entertainment Specialists | ROB MOND The Subjects |
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| DAME HILL Pawno | VIRGINIA KAY Sugar Mountain, The Lookalike, Blinder, Mine Games (Pitch panel only) | JAMIE HOUGE Sugar Mountain, The Lookalike, Blinder, Mine Games | GENEVIEVE BAILEY I am Eleven |
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| JONATHAN ROPER I am Evangeline | DR. GREGORY FERRIS microWAVE, the UTS micro budget filmmaking initiative | ALKINOS TSILIMIDOS Blind Company, Tom White, Em4Jay | AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON Bastardy, Hail, Ruin (Co-Keynote Presenter via video message) |
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| RICHARD HARRIS Head of Business & Audience, Screen Australia; creator of SAFC FilmLab (Co-Keynote Presenter) | JASON BYRNE One Perfect Day, Rats & Cats, Little Deaths & Sucker, How to talk Australians (Pitch panel only) | TIM KREIBIG Strategic Foresight session | STEPHEN REIMANN Strategic Foresight session |
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| AARON WILSON Canopy | BARBARA CONNELL Tugg Australia | JENNY LALOR Lalor Law |
In addition to panel speakers, we welcome industry guilds, special guests and networking attendees including:
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| DANIEL SCHARF Producer Romper Stomper, Metal Skin, EP Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla | STEPHANIE CHARLES Head of Markets & Marketing, StarNow | ERIN BANKS Senior Account Manager, StarNow | CHRIS HOCKING Australian Screen Editors |
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| LUKE PRESTON Australian Writers Guild | LUDWINA DAUTOVIC Head of Marketing and Communications, Spondo.com | JANET BARR Australian Writers Guild | ALAN COLE ACS Australian Cinematographers Society |
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| WARWICK FIELD Australian Cinematographers Society | DALE CORLETT NZ Film Commission | DAVID WILLIAMS Australian Cinematographers Society | DEE MCLACHLAN The Jammed, for Australian Directors Guild |
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| FRANKY LEMKE Australian Directors Guild | GRANT SCICLUNA Downriver, Australian Directors Guild | JULIA ADAMS Shiff & Co Lawyers | RYAN ALEXANDER LLOYD Sunday, for Australian Cinematographers Society |
ABC iView (Sally O’Donahue, Manager, iview and Internet Broadcasting), New Zealand Film Commission (Dale Corlett), Tugg Australia, Pozible, Spondo, Australian Directors Guild, Australian Cinematographers Society, Australian Writers Guild, the Online Video Awards, Umbrella Films, Shaun Miller Lawyers, Lalor Law, Moneypenny accountants, ScreenPro, The Australian Film Institute, Final Post, Profile Creative, Innovation and Business Skills Australia, Artshub, International Specialised Skills Institute and BelowFiveZero film festival.
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* speakers & guests subject to change.