CREW

JOSH TANNER
Director / Co-writer

In 2008, at the age of 20, Josh joined Brisbane based Perception Pictures and went on to direct the short films 'Embrace' (2009), 'Deliberation' (2010), and 'The Foal' (2010), which collectively screened at 50+ film festivals worldwide, including Palm Springs, Brooklyn, Newport Beach and Whistler Film Festivals. After a three year stint directing and editing commercial and documentary work, Josh co-wrote and directed the 'The Landing' (2013), an ambitious Period Drama/Sci-Fi short film, which is set to make its world debut at the SITGES and Warsaw Film Festivals.

JADE VAN DER LEI
Producer / Co-writer

Jade’s first feature as a producer, All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, received a national theatrical and worldwide DVD release, as well as being broadcast in several countries. It was also officially selected for the Inside Film Awards and the AFI Awards, as well as winning the Audience Award at Nat Filmfestivalen in Denmark and Best Film at Barbican’s London Australian Film Festival. Since then, Jade has worked on several features in various roles including Chris Nyst’s Crooked Business as Line Producer, feature

documentary My America as Associate Producer, Crawl as Production Manager and New Holland Pictures production Iron Sky as Production Coordinator. She is currently working with Brisbane / Sydney company Wild Fury on various documentaries.

In between feature projects, Jade has produced several short films. Her latest, The Foal, won Best Film at the 2010 In the Bin Film Festival, the 2010 Shorts on the Green Film Festivals and the 2011 Angry Film Festival. It also placed as 1st Runner Up of the Super Short Golden Oosikar Award at the 2010 Anchorage International Film Festival. The film has screen at over forty international and national film festivals including Palm Springs, Brooklyn, Rhode Island, Long Island, Fort Lauderdale, Newport Beach, St Louis, Whistler, St Kilda and Dungog film festivals.

JASON HARGREAVES ACS
Cinematographer

Since he graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 2001, Jason Hargreaves has been working professionally as a successful Cinematographer. In 2006 Jason won Best Cinematography at Flickerfest and has been awarded over 21 ACS awards for his work. Jason has photographed commercials for clients that include, Nike, Toyota, Ford, Disney, Coke, Pauls, Subway, SBS TV, Pedigree, Sanyo, to name a few. He has also shot dozens of music videos for bands such as The Living End, Kate Miller-Heidke, Megan Washington, Kiss Chasey, Claire Bowditch, Bliss’n’Esso, Resin Dogs and Salmonella Dub. Having shot two feature films in 2009, Jason was also 2nd Unit DOP on the AFI award winning film Unfinished Sky. Recently he shot aerials and pickups for A Heartbeat Away.

CHARLIE SHELLEY
Production Designer

Charlie Shelley first got her foot in the door of the film industry in 2011 alongside Production Designer Matt Putland. In the roles of Props Buyer and Set Dresser, Charlie worked on diverse Australian and International productions like Mystery Road, Terra Nova, Camp (NBC) and Banished (BBC), the last two projects as team member of Emmy Award winning Art Director Richard Hobbs. As a Production Designer, Charlie’s work won her the prize for Best Production Design at the Canberra Short Film Festival 2014, and a Best Production Design nomination at the 2014 St Kilda Film Festival.

DERRYN WATTS
Editor

Derryn is known for his innovative approach to storytelling that engages audiences across multiple platforms in the simplest and smartest ways. Driven by an eclectic mix of concept, design and technology, he has directed and edited several commercials for a diverse range of leading Australian companies and many top-ten music videos including three consecutive number one songs.

GUY GROSS
Composer

Guy Gross is a multi award winning Australian film and television composer and recipient of the APRA/AGSC International Achievement Award. In 2012 he was elected President of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. From his British Academy Award (BAFTA) nominated score to the international hit The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to the US hit Sci-Fi series Farscape, his classical training has resulted in his scores covering a huge variety of styles. His scores have been performed in concert by the Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. Short films have always been a delight for Guy to score. He received the best music award at Tropfest in 1999 and more recently scored one of the short films in Robert Connelly's adaptation of Tim Winton’s The Turning. Other projects have been the tele-movies: Dangerous Remedy, A Model Daughter - The Killing of Caroline Byrne, Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback, and documentaries: The Howard Years, The Prime Minister is Missing and Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?. Guy’s original score for THE LANDING digs into his traditional training evoking classical large scale orchestral film scoring techniques.

TONY VACCHER & JOHN DENNISON– AUDIOLOC
Sound Designers / Supervisors

Tony Vaccher and John Dennison are co-directors of AudioLoc Sound Design, one of Australia’s leading screen sound post-production companies. Together they have sound designed, sound supervised and sound mixed many of Australia’s major IMAX, feature, short drama and documentary films; telemovies, television miniseries, television drama and documentary series. Recipients of many industry awards for their work, they were also awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for services to the Australian Film Industry. Their recent work includes Mark Lamprell’s feature film, Goddess, and Jane Campion’s television mini-series, Top Of The Lake.

RICHARD WATERHOUSE
VFX Supervisor

Richard Waterhouse has spent the first five years of his career working in New Zealand, and the last five here in Australia. A self proclaimed ‘jack-of-all-trades’, Richard has a very broad range of knowledge in the VFX field, from 3D Modeling and Animation, to Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics. With such a prolific set of skills under his belt, he makes the perfect on-set, and post-production VFX supervisor. As a freelancer, Richard has worked with companies such as Cutting Edge, Publics Mojo, Head Pictures, Taxi Film, Network 7, Network 9 and the Australian Broadcast Corporation.

WILLIAM GAMMON - CUMULUS VFX
Supervisor / Compositor

Cumulus Visual Effects is a boutique studio producing high quality visual effects for film, television and other visual media. Founded by William Gammon in 2011, the studios focus is Compositing for film, television and other visual medias. With over 12 years of experience in Visual Effects, Will has proven his skills in all areas of his craft. After working in studios such as Fuel, Animal Logic and Rising Sun Pictures on major Hollywood productions such as The Avengers, Mission Impossible 4, Watchmen and Superman Returns, Will has built very solid network to enable him to work in a remote and local capacity.