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Greer Simpkin
David Jowsey is an Australian film producer, co-founder of Bunya Productions. He is known for producing many films made by Indigenous Australian filmmakers. Bunya Productions' co-owners are Indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen, and Jowsey's wife Greer Simpkin. Early life and education Jowsey was born in Auckland, New Zealand. His mother used to take him to the cinema a lot and he developed a deep love of storytelling and films as a child. At Auckland University, he ran a drama group, which led to a job at TVNZ. Career In his work at TVNZ, he worked for some time in the Māori department, and developed an affinity for telling Indigenous stories. He was on the production team for the first episode of ''Waka Huia'', which went to air in 1987. This is a long-running TV series aiming to record and preserve Māori culture and customs as well as covering social and political concerns, and presented completely in te reo Māori (language). Moving to Australia, Jowsey married an Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Syron
Brian Gregory Syron (19 November 1934 – 14 October 1993) was an actor, teacher, Aboriginal rights activist, stage director and Australia's first Indigenous feature film director, who has also been recognised as the first First Nations feature film director. After studying in New York City under Stella Adler, he returned to Australia and was a co-founder of the Australian National Playwrights Conference, the Eora Centre, the National Black Playwrights Conference, and the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust. He worked on several television productions and was appointed head of the ABC's new Aboriginal unit in 1988. Life Brian Gregory Syron was born on 19 November 1934 in the inner city suburb of Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales. His mother, Elizabeth Murray, was from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, while his father, a general labourer, was a Birrbay man. Brian was one of eight children. Syron also lived an Indigenous life with his paternal Aboriginal grandmother, Suzie Syron, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Producer
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the production of media. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties). In films, the executive producer generally contributes to the film's budget and their involvement depends on the project, with some simply securing funds and others being involved in the filmmaking process. Motion pictures In films, executive producers may finance the film, participate in the creative effort, or work on set. Their responsibilities vary from funding or attracting investors into the movie project to legal, scripting, marketing, advisory and supervising capacities. Executive producers vary in involvement, responsibility and power. Some executive producers have hands-on control over every aspect of production, some supervise the producers of a project, while others are involved in name only. The crediting of executive produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Perkins
Rachel Perkins (born 1970) is an Indigenous Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She founded and was co-director of the independent film production company Blackfella Films from 1992 until 2022. Perkins and the company were responsible for producing '' First Australians'' (2008), an award-winning documentary series that remains the highest-selling educational title in Australia, and which Perkins regards as her most important work. She directed the films ''Radiance'' (1998), '' One Night the Moon'' (2001), '' Bran Nue Dae'' (2009), the courtroom drama telemovie '' Mabo'' (2012), and '' Jasper Jones'' (2017). The acclaimed television drama series '' Redfern Now'' was made by Blackfella Films, and Perkins directed two episodes as well as the feature-length conclusion to the series, ''Promise Me'' (2015). Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra. She is the daughter of Aboriginal activist Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Thornton
Warwick Thornton is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. His debut feature film '' Samson and Delilah'' won the Caméra d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the award for Best Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. He also won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Film in 2017 for '' Sweet Country''. Early life and education Thornton is a Kaytetye man born and raised in Alice Springs. His mother, Freda Glynn, co-founded and was the first director of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) and was the director of Imparja Television for its first 10 years. At 13, Thornton was sent to boarding school, Salvado College, in Australia's only monastic town, New Norcia, Western Australia, although he later declared he became angry with Christianity and did not consider himself religious. He graduated in cinematography from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Career Thornton began his career making short films a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle MacLean
Danielle MacLean is an Australian filmmaker. She is known for her writing on television series such as ''Little J & Big Cuz'', ''8MMM Aboriginal Radio'' and ''Redfern Now''. Early life MacLean is of the Luritja and Warumungu peoples of the Northern Territory of Australia. Career MacLean started work at Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions as a production assistant, later moving on to writing and directing, working under Erica Glynn. She originally wanted to be a stills photographer. She lived in Central Australia working on a TV documentary series called ''Nganampa Anwernekenhe'' which means "ours" in the Pitjantjatjara and Arrernte languages The series started in 1987 and comprised 187 half-hour episodes. which was shot in the bush communities and broadcast on Imparja Television. In 1997, she was supported by Screen Australia's Indigenous unit to act as both writer and director of a short drama film, ''My Colour Your Kind'', about an albino Abor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven McGregor
Steven McGregor is an Australian filmmaker, known for his work on ''Redfern Now'', ''Black Comedy'', '' Sweet Country'', and numerous documentaries, including ''My Brother Vinnie''. Early life and education McGregor grew up near the leprosarium in East Arm, a suburb of Darwin, in the Northern Territory. His mother, who had grown up on a mission, was a healthworker at the leprosarium until its closure around 1970. He and his siblings used to hang out there to use the swimming pool and play. He said there was no real stigma attached to it, and the people with leprosy were fairly happy, but missed their family and homes. He was always fascinated by black and white photographs. The film '' Papillon'' (1973) caught his imagination as a child. He completed a Masters in Drama Directing at Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. McGregor lost an eye at the age of 25 when he was hit in the head with a hockey stick when playing a game of hockey. Career McGregor bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Glynn
Erica Glynn (born 1964) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker, known for directing, producing and writing documentary film, documentaries and other films. Early life, education and family Glynn was born in 1964. She is the daughter of photographer Freda Glynn, sister of director Warwick Thornton, and niece of educator Rona Glynn. She is a drama directing graduate of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. Career Glynn started her working life at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) in Alice Springs, which had been co-founded by her mother Freda. In 2001 she wrote and directed the documentary short ''Ngangkari'', about the traditional healers of the Central Desert Region known as ngangkari. The film, which was shot by Warwick Thornton, was made for series 3 of ''Australia by Numbers'', a TV series commissioned by SBS Television in collaboration with state agencies featuring short films by emerging filmmakers from South Australia, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imparja
Imparja Television (IMP) is an independent Australian television station servicing over , across six states and territories of Australia, states and territories: Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania. It is based in Alice Springs, and is controlled by Australian Aboriginal, Aboriginal people through ownership by Imparja Television Pty Ltd. ''Imparja'' is the anglicised form of the pronunciation of the Arrernte language, Arrernte word ''Impatye'', meaning footprints. The word was used to represent that Imparja Television aims to service Arrernte people wherever they may live, from Mutitjulu to Kings Canyon (Northern Territory), King's Canyon to Alice Springs to Tennant Creek and beyond. They describe their range as a footprint. Broadcasting began on 2 January 1988. In 2008, Imparja Television was identified on-air and in print as Nine Imparja, following its dropping of Network Ten affiliation. In 2009, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IF Magazine
''IF Magazine'', also known as ''Inside Film'', ''IF: Australia's Filmmaker Magazine'', and ''IF: The Magazine for Independent Filmmakers'', is an Australian print and online trade publication for screen-content professionals in Australia and New Zealand. History The magazine was founded in 1997 by Stephen Jenner and David Barda, in Sydney. In April 2012 the 150th issue was published. In June 2021, the 200th issue was published. Its former and long names include ''Inside Film'', ''IF: Australia's Filmmaker Magazine'', ''IF: The Magazine for Independent Filmmakers'', and ''IF Magazine: For Screen Content Professionals''. Description ''IF Magazine'' is a bi-monthly print magazine as well as a website, if.com.au, serving as a trade publication for screen-content professionals in Australia and New Zealand. The magazine's content includes original research in specially-commissioned articles that are unique. It covers Australian film and television, distribution, exhibition, digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Springs
Alice Springs () is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Mills (surveyor), William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (), wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd (pioneer), Charles Todd. Known colloquially as The Alice or simply Alice, the town is situated roughly in Australia's Geographical centre, geographic centre. It is nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. The area is also known locally as to its Indigenous Australians, original inhabitants, the Arrernte people, Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for tens of thousands of years. Alice Springs had a population of 33,990 as of June 2024. The town's population accounts for approximately 10 percent of the population of the Northern Terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association
The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is an organisation founded in 1980 to expose Aboriginal music and culture to the rest of Australia. It started with 8KIN-FM, the first Aboriginal radio station in the country. Based in Alice Springs, the organisation is particularly focused on the involvement of the local Indigenous community in its production. CAAMA is involved in radio, television and recorded music. History Origins and Imparja In 1980, CAAMA originally established itself as a public radio station by two Aboriginal people and one " whitefella": Freda Glynn, Phillip Batty, and John Macumba. 8KIN-FM was the first Aboriginal radio station. The success of the station quickly grew, leading its content to extend into music (country music and Aboriginal rock), call-ins, discussion, and news and current affairs. Broadcasts were made in six different languages, alongside English, and operated about fifteen hours every day. Later expansions saw the station m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
