Geoffrey Wright​

Geoffrey Wright is an Australian film director and screenwriter whose credits include his breakthrough 1992 film Romper Stomper starring Russell Crowe (which earned him AACTA nominations for Best Film and Best Director), and the acclaimed Metal Skin starring Ben Mendelsohn. Geoffrey co-created and directed a six-part television series sequel to Romper Stomper, which won the 2018 Logie Award for Outstanding Miniseries.​​

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David Michael Brown​

David Michael Brown is a British ex-pat living in Sydney. Working as a freelance writer he has contributed to Rolling Stone, GQ, TV Week, flicks.com.au, The Big Issue, SBS Movies, Cinema of the 70s, Cinema of the 80s, We Belong Dead and Empire Magazine Australia, where he was Senior Editor for almost seven years.

 
As well as freelancing, he works with Umbrella Entertainment and has contributed essays to their releases of Caligula, The Hitcher, Takashi Miike's Audition, The Raid, a box set of films by Korean director Lee Chang-dong and Coffy for which he interviewed director Jack Hill and Alejandro Amenábar’s Thesis and Open Your Eyes where he interviewed Eduardo Noriega.

He is presently writing a book on the film music of German electronic music pioneers Tangerine Dream and researching a project on Andy Warhol associate and filmmaker Paul Morrissey. A huge fan of the trashier side of cult films, his love of the movies of Russ Meyer, John Waters and Mario Bava shows no bounds: he proudly declares that Faster, Pussycat Kill! Kill! and Danger: Diabolik are his all-time favorite films and meeting David Lynch remains the biggest thrill of his professional career thus far.

 

Isabel Peppard​

Isabel Peppard is a highly skilled multidisciplinary artist who works across the mediums of film, sculpture and stop-motion animation. ​Her multi-award winning work has screened at top-tier festivals, including MIFF, Sitges and Annecy, as well as at institutions such as GOMA (QLD) and MOMA (Rio De Janeiro) ACMI (Melbourne) and The National Film and Sound Archive.

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Her short film Butterflies (starring Rachel Griffiths) won the Dendy award at the Sydney Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on SBS Television. Isabel's hybrid feature documentary 'MORGANA' (co-directed by Josie Hess) had it's world premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 and received a national cinema release through The Dendy cinema’s in 2020.

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As an artist, performer and arts facilitator Isabel has been involved in underground, queer and feminist art spaces since early 2000. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Age, The Guardian, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Fangoria and Artlink.

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Isabel regularly exhibits at the Beinart Gallery, a curated space that represents surreal and New Contemporary artists from around the world including Shaun Tan, Jonathon Tsang and Ronit Baranga.

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Anna Broinowski

Anna Broinowski is a Walkley-winning filmmaker, synthetic media researcher and nonfiction author who uses innovative technologies and narrative modes to document countercultural subjects.

 

Her globally screened films include Aim High in Creation!, Forbidden Lie$ and Helen’s War, and have won 3 AFI/AACTAs and the Writer’s Guild of America and NSW Premier's Literary awards, amongst others. Anna’s books are Datsun Angel (2024), Please Explain: the rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson (2017), and The Director is the Commander (2015). A National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) graduate, Anna has worked as an actor and journalist and served as Jury Chair for the NSW Literary Awards and on the Australian Director’s Guild Board.

 

A senior film lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, Anna researches GenAI screen tools and political deepfakes.

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Jorrden Daley

Jorrden Daley is a prolific genre-focused screenwriter based in Sydney, Australia.

 

Her debut feature, family drama THE LONGEST WEEKEND, premiered at Sydney Film Festival in June 2022 before touring the festival circuit with screenings at BIFF, DIFF, Mardi Gras Film Festival, and was also named Australian Feature of the Year at Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Since then, Jorrden has written on record breaking Stan series BUMP and received development funding from Screen Australia for her Religious Historical Horror feature film titled HELOISE with Jess Carrera attached to produce.

 

In 2025, Jorrden’s contained horror script ONE OF THE GREATS was optioned by Future Pictures (Late Night with the Devil) and Jorrden’s directorial debut, WELCOME BACK TO MY CHANNEL, which was featured on the Black List’s Top List for Horror in 2024, will make its premiere in October. Jorrden is represented by Mollison Keightley Management.

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Richard Eames

Richard Eames is a multi-award winning writer, director and editor who’s work combines elements of satire, the surreal and experimental with a strong punk ethos.

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​His early work was praised for its experimentation and new media aesthetic, particularly Violent Blue Light Ghosts (2004) that screened internationally. His surreal nightmare short Happy In Our Grave. Ten Years Deep (2006) won the Australian Animation Award at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2007.

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Richard’s political satire Flushed (2015) found considerable success on the festival circuit playing for 2 years and culminating in 6 WA Screen Award nominations, with wins for writing, editing and audience choice. Fiercely independent and uncompromising, Richard works outside the system with a small team of collaborators pursuing a ‘DIY / guerrilla’ approach.

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Based in Perth, Australia Richard is also a sought-after editor and motion designer, regularly working with some of Perth’s biggest post facilities. He often guest lectures in post-production software and processes at local universities, readily sharing his knowledge with the next generation of filmmakers.

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