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. 

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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.