John Winter - Writer/Director/Producer

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:12:19 +1000

Black & White & Sex is John’s feature directorial debut following a successful career in producing.

After a degree in Anthropology & Indian Studies, John worked in production at the ABC on numerous shows including the Nature of Australia series, Police Rescue, Come in Spinner and Inspector Morse. During this period he directed his first short film, Paper Dart (St Kilda Film Festival).

On leaving the ABC he line-produced the feature films The Roly Poly Man and No Worries, co-produced Love in Limbo and Turning April, and then produced Vacant Possession (4 AFI nominations) as well as the Sydney Film Festival opener Doing Time for Patsy Cline - nominated for 10 AFI Awards, including Best Film.

Next John script-produced the first series of SeaChange before producing the popular Paperback Hero (Hugh Jackman and Claudia Karvan) and the Berlin Film Festival entrant, My Mother Frank.

He then produced Philip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence, which won Best Film at the AFI Awards in 2002.

A Man’s Gotta Do (Best Film from Oceania at the Montreal Fest) followed and he also shot and directed a companion documentary, A Director’s Gotta Do – The Producer’s Cut that screened on Channel 9.

Most recently he directed the award winning short film Mirror Mirror (Roy Billing), which screened at 27 festivals worldwide including Frameline and the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival as well as opening the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

Melissa Beauford - Producer

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:12:09 +1000

When Melissa launched All at Once she became a presence in the independent film scene in Australia when back to back she produced Puppy – the directorial debut for acclaimed Australian short film director Kieran Galvin, Feed for US cult director Brett Leonard and the debut short film, feeling_lonely? from the AWGIE award winning writer and former editor of Inside Film Magazine, Rachael Turk. feeling_lonley? premiered at SFF, won best short drama at WoW and played several other festivals.

Feed sold worldwide including: the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil, Greece, Korea and Yugoslavia. It was also selected for numerous festivals including the prestigious SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya 2005 and other well regarded fantasy festivals.

Puppy also sold to the US after is premiere at the SXSW Film Festival and played 13 other festivals and recently having remaining US rights picked up by Cinetic.
Prior to her producing career, Melissa worked for International attorneys Coudert Brothers and was a senior associate at Michell Sillar Attorneys specialising in intellectual property, media and entertainment law. She was also Acquisitions and Licensing Executive at Arclight Films International.

Melissa has been attached as an EP or legal advisor to several films and documentaries, including; Man-Thing, Watermark (Cannes – Director’s Fortnight) and Osama.

She recently completed renowned producer John Winter’s directorial debut – the provocative feature, Black & White & Sex.

Nicola Daley - Director of Photography

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:11:54 +1000

Nicola Daley is an award winning Cinematographer with a strong passion for creative and bold storytelling. Nicola has won numerous ACS awards, including Gold and Silver awards for her short drama work. Nicola received the outstanding cinematography award at the 2009 and 2010 World of Women Film Festival and the 2008 Fuji Film Flickerfest Award for Best Cinematography.

Nicola studied a Master of Arts in Cinematography in 2003 at the prestigious Australian Film, TV and Radio School. The following year, Nicola collaborated on the Oscar nominated short film The Saviour and then in 2005 shot the winning Tropfest film Australian Summer.

Nicola has worked with some of Australia’s most renowned documentary makers, including Tom Zubrycki and Curtis Levy, and has travelled worldwide with her work. Nicola has just completed two important SBS documentary series for 2011 ‘Sex: An Unnatural History’ for Matchbox Pictures and the much talked about ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’.

Adrian Rostirolla - Editor

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:11:33 +1000

Adrian Rostirolla is a film editor whose feature film credits includes Kokoda, Gabriel, The Nothing Men, and the highly acclaimed feature documentary Bomb Harvest. He also edited the Oscar nominated animation Birthday Boy and the AFI nominated shorts Small Boxes and The Ground Beneath. The Ground Beneath was in the top 10 short list for the 2010 Oscars.

At the 2008 Screen Editors Guild Awards Adrian won an award for Best Editing for The Ground Beneath. In 2006 he was nominated for Best Editing for Kokoda at the IF Awards.

More recently Adrian edited the documentary episode Law and Disorder: Allen Kessing. This won Best Factual Program at the 2010 Logie Awards.

At the 2010 Screen Editors Guild Awards Adrian was nominated in three categories including best editing on a Feature Film for Coffin Rock.

In 2011 Adrian edited 2 episodes of the new Fox8 drama series Slide and is about to start on a feature called Venice.

Caitlin Yeo - Original Music

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:11:17 +1000

Caitlin Yeo is a unique and versatile film composer. Since graduating from Screen Composition at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2003, Caitlin has scored 4 feature films, including All My Friends are Leaving Brisbane, and the recently released Jucy, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival to sell-out audiences.

She has also scored 20 TV documentaries including My America, Footy Chicks and The Matilda Candidate, 2 documentary series, and many short films.

On March 14th this year, Caitlin won the APRA professional development award, which included a trip to Los Angeles to attend the ASCAP Film and TV Scoring Workshop to study scoring techniques with Hollywood composers.

In 2007, Caitlin won an APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award (Best Music for a Documentary) for her highly original score for Bomb Harvest, about an Australian bomb disposal expert in Laos. Caitlin was nominated again in 2008 for the same award, for documentary, The Last Trimate, and for a third time in 2010 for her score for The Long Goodbye.