Friday On My Mind August 16: FremantleMedia's Creative Director: Jason Stephens – Realising ideas Creative Director of FreemantleMedia, Jason Stephens, has had an illustrious career in television, overseeing some of Australia’s most lauded comedy, dramas and factual...
Friday On My Mind
Clayton Jacobson, Director/Writer/Actor
Friday July 12: Clayton Jacobson & his filmmaking tactics that scored big at the box office At a time when just about anyone has access to the technology to make content, the question in this highly fractured and competitive market becomes... how on earth do you...
Kat Stewart, Actor
Friday 5th July – Most Outstanding Actress: Kat Stewart Stewart is arguably one of the most fascinating actors on our screens. She has the uncanny ability to exude a seemingly contradictory combination of vulnerability and threat. A combination delivered in spades...
Andy Walker, Producer
Friday June 21: The Alchemy of Producing and Casting - Andy Walker Andy Walker has produced hundreds of hours of Australia’s most popular television series and he continues to be one of the busiest television drama and narrative comedy producers around. He’s...
Fred Schepisi, Director
Friday June 14: Major Australian Director - Fred Schepisi Multi-award winning Fred Schepisi (Plenty, Roxanne, The Russia House, Six Degrees of Separation, Empire Falls, The Eye of the Storm) is one of the very few Australian directors that can be said to have carved a...
Peter Gawler, Writer Underbelly Franchise
Friday June 7: Peter Gawler - The Truth, True Crimes and Underbelly Peter Gawler, has been pivotal to the phenomenal success of the Underbelly television franchise. He wrote six episodes of the defining first series and has been critically connected to the...
Chris Oliver-Taylor, Managing Director, Matchbox Pictures
Friday May 31: Chris Oliver-Taylor Matchbox MD on the business of the business Chris Oliver-Taylor is Managing Director of Matchbox Pictures (The Slap, Underground: The Julian Assange Story, Next Stop Hollywood), a company that has recently risen to be one of the most...
Alison Nisselle, Writer
Friday May 24: The straight-talking Alison Nisselle, Screenwriter, script editor & script producer Alison Nisselle describes herself as an “old chick, done everything”. We wouldn’t dare. But what’s accurate about that description is that having worked in the film...
Leigh Whannell Actor, Writer, Producer – Saw franchise
FRIDAY 10 MAY 2013 @ 5.00PM - MELBOURNE , Leigh Whannel – Co-Creator of the Saw Franchise Actor, writer, producer and co-creator of the Saw franchise, Leigh Whannel would have to be one of the most successful Australian practitioners in the film industry right now and...
Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw Warp Films
FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 @ 5.00PM - MELBOURNE, Friday May 3: Anna McLeish & Sarah Shaw - Warp Films: Ambitious and Independent Distinctive record company Warp was founded in the UK over 20 years ago diversifying into film and other mediums a decade ago, and developing a...