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2008 IN REVIEW AND AT A GLANCE:Scroll down for bio information - Graham Duff (Screen Writer, BBC)
- Courtney Gibson (Executive Head, Content Creation ABC TV)
- Richard Wolstencroft (Festival Director, Melbourne Underground Film Festival)
- Dalibor Backovic (Filmmaker)
- Dean Bertram (Director, Night of Horror Film Festival)
- Lawrence English (Founder Room 40 Records,Composer)
Graham Duff
(Screen Writer, BBC)Graham Duff is a script writer, producer and comic actor who, over the last ten years, has created a highly individual body of work for TV and radio. Often taking inspiration from the worlds of music, horror, sci-fi and art house cinema, Graham's scripts not only push the boundaries of the comic genre, they also attract some of the biggest names in British comedy, including Johnny Vegas, Mark Gatiss, Julia Davis, Steve Coogan, Ben Miller & Simon Pegg. Outside the world of TV and radio, Graham has worked with acclaimed sound collagist Vicki Bennett on three of her People Like Us albums, as well as collaborating with Mark E. Smith, Wire’s Colin Newman and ‘art terrorist’ Stewart Home. He also executive produced Celebricide’s debut album and has DJ’d at the Victoria & Albert Museum. More?...www.grahamduff.co.uk
Courtney Gibson
(Executive Head, Content Creation ABC TV)
Courtney Gibson is the Executive Head of Content Creation at ABC TV, leading the team which develops and commissions programs and content broadcast on all channels and platforms. Prior to this she was the Head of Arts, Entertainment and Comedy at ABC TV, leading the team which commissioned and produced shows including Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, the Chaser's War on Everything and Spicks and Specks. Her work as a writer and producer from the late 1980s thru the late 1990s ran the gamut of live talks shows, factual, entertainment and comedy.
Richard Wolstencroft
(Festival Director, Melbourne Underground Film Festival)Wolstencroft began making Super 8 films at around the age of eleven. He worked on a number of short films in his teens with Mark Savage and other collaborators. In 1990 at the age of 21 Wolstencroft wrote and Directed Bloodlust with Jon Hewitt (Redball, Acolytes), a vampire/gangster genre feature made on video. In 1992 he shot a serial killer feature for Boulevard Films, as a director for hire, called The Intruder (aka Deliver Us From Evil) on 35mm from a script by Frank Howson. In 1999 he finished his third feature “Pearls Before Swine” that Premiered at the Stockholm International Film Festival in 1999. In 2000, Wolstencroft founded and runs The Melbourne Underground Film Festival or MUFF now in its 9th year. (see: www.muff.com.au). He started the festival in reaction to the poor state of the Australian film industry and the festival has discovered (i.e. the first festival in the world to play the work of) major talents like James Wan, Scott Ryan, Gregory Pakis and Jason Turley In 2007 Wolstencroft shot his new feature, The Beautiful and Damned on HD mini DV. A classic tale of decline, decadence and dissolution set in the now of the 00's and based on the important novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The feature portrays the drugged out life style of the young trust fund jet set elite and their existentially doomed life style. Wolstencroft plans The Beautiful and Damned to be the first part of a trilogy of modernist adaptations and has written the script to the second feature in the trilogy. A long time advocate of Genre, Wolstencroft also has in development three projects that fit clearly defined genres and are aggressive, young and innovative. Wolstencroft is also developing a TV series.
Dalibor Backovic
(Filmmaker)From the dark corners of the southern land of Australia, Dalibor Backovic made his Directorial debut in 2003 with his first short film Entombed, which was praised by horror film fans worldwide throughout the horror/fantasy film festival circuit. With a backround in frontmanning the notorious underground heavy metal band Nazxul, his achievements since then have been mainly producing heavy metal and industrial music videos from the likes of Wumpscut, Nazxul and The Amenta to name a few. Though hailing from the Australian heavy metal music underground, Dalibor has been pursuing his quest to release the forces of darkness with his mysterious, yet sombre & macabre film making as well. The Ancient Rite of Corey McGillis is the 2nd chapter in his book of the horror film makers journey. His influences have been through the black ages of classic H.P Lovecraft, through to the post and modern works and likes of Fulci, Romero, Argento, Carpenter and today's new blood of the horror hallmark. Dalibor has also influenced fellow film makers and artists alike. In the Masters of Horror series Season 1 Episode 8 Cigarette Burns, two important key characters were named after him, one played by Douglas H. Arthurs as "Dalibor" and the other played by Christian Bocher as Hans "Backovic". The basis of the screenplay originated whilst he and fellow friends and writers Scott Swan and Drew McWeeney of Aint'it Cool.com were at Fantasia Film Festival in 2003. John Carpenter found the screenplay to be one of the best he has worked on in recent years and has made the film that has been the highest rated episode in the series so far.
Dean Bertram
(Director, Night of Horror Film Festival)
Dean is a freelance writer and filmmaker who recently completed principal photography on his first feature film Sick Day (co-directed with his brother Grant). The film explores the darker side of human eros as it follows a young woman's psychological descent through abuse and sexual obsession to sickening revenge.
He has been a fan of the horror genre since he first watched John Carpenter's Halloween at the age of 10. From that time on, Dean's avid consumption of cinematic horror, lead, perhaps inevitably, to him founding Sydney's A Night of Horror International Film Festival. Dean has a PhD in cultural history from the University of Sydney.
Lawrence English
(Founder Room 40 Records,Composer)
Lawrence English is media artist, composer and critic based in Brisbane, Australia.
Working across a broad range of investigations, English’s work is eclectic and
characterises a long-term exploration into various themes including audio/visual
environments, found sound/vision, subtle transformation of public space and sonic art
works that exist at the very edge of perception. English has recently been producing a number of full-length recordings for a variety of
artists including Japan’s avant-pop icon Tujiko Noriko, Tokyo based psychedelic folk
collective Tenniscoats and Australian noise-pop unit The Rational Academy. He has also
recently composed new works for guitar for the renowned new music ensemble Elision,
as well as undertaking compositional works with avant-circus troupe Circa and theatre
groups including Backbone, Pact. English acted as the musical consultant on the
Barbican commissioned The Importance Of Being Earnest. Outside of his recording and art commissions, Lawrence English curates a number of
ongoing sound events including fabrique at Brisbane Powerhouse, Mono at the Institute
Of Modern Art and Syncretism/NineHoursNorth at the Judith Wright Centre of
Contemporary Arts. His segment ‘The Anti-Charts’, which explores unusual and exotic music is
broadcast nationally on Australia’s Triple J Soundlab program and he continues to
produce an extensive range of radio documents and sound works for programs such as
the BBC’s World Service. His writing can be found regularly in journals such as Signal To
Noise, Paris Transatlantic, Cyclic Defrost, Vital Weekly, Time Off and many other online
outlets.
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