Claire Harris has been producing documentaries since 2005. She has a background in visual arts and cultural anthropology and worked for many years in cinema exhibition and marketing in London and Adelaide. She is an experienced film and arts publicist.
Currently she is associate producer with Sydney producer Jenny Day, on Gillian Armstrong’s Love Lust & Lies. This feature length documentary is fifth in a groundbreaking series Gillian Armstrong began in the mid 1970’s and is due for cinema release in May 2010. In 2009 she produced award winning theatre writer/director Sean Riley’s first short drama Lure.
Claire co-wrote and produced Hearing James (SBSTV) with writer/director Cath Moore, produced the Matthew Bate directed experimental music documentary, What the Future Sounded Like (ABCTV), which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival where it was voted second in the Best Documentary Audience Award and went on to screen at film festivals around the world and was nominated for an ATOM Best Documentary award and an SA Screen Best Sound Award. In 2007 she partnered with Perth based director and producer Alan Carter to co-produce the SBS 4 part cross-platform documentary series Risking it All (SBSTV)
Kate Croser is an Adelaide-based producer and production manager. In 2007 she joined forces with fellow producer, Julie Ryan, to create cyanfilms, a production company based at the South Australian Film Corporation. Kate recently produced the Australian-Iranian feature film MY TEHRAN FOR SALE (Official Selection 2009 Toronto International Film Festival) which was shot entirely on location in Tehran, and for which Kate and her fellow producers received the 2009 IF Independent Spirit Award.
Previously Kate produced animated comedy series STANLEY & DEAN (2008 Palm Springs International Film Festival) as well as the short feature drama ANGELA’S DECISION. Kate has worked in production roles on feature films for Vertigo Productions and Kojo Pictures as well as in television, documentary and short film.
Kate is a committee member for the SA branch of the Australian Writers’ Guild and a Media Resource Centre board member.
After studying a Bachelor of Accounting/ Commerce Chad worked for 7 years in tax, business consulting and commerce in the private and public sector. He worked as Finance/ Administrator for the Media Resource Center before starting to produce short films and documentaries. He has worked as Production Accountant on the feature films "Beautiful" and "Coffin Rock". Chad's end is to produce for others and to write and direct his own financially viable and critically acclaimed features that sell on an international market, benefitting the local industry and having a positive effect on a broad audience.
Julie Byrne has worked variously in the SA film & television industry for 20 years including in community television, as an independent filmmaker of short form drama & documentary and in the last decade as a production manager of feature films, including Paul Cox's Innocence and Human Touch and on the popular television series McLeod's Daughters. In 2008 Julie was Line Producer on the feature Lucky Country and is currently co-producing the feature documentary Shut Up Little Man! with Closer Productions.
Julie recently created a producing partnership, Velvet Orange, with Vicki Sugars and are currently developing several projects. Velvet Orange is also under the umbrella of the newly formed alliance of SA film producers Cinergy Group.
Once upon a time, Ruth Estelle trained and worked as a journalist. Quickly miserable, she re-trained and ran a corporate yoga business to support her writing habit. But in 2007 she went against all sane advice and gave up her day job to launch into a writing career. Her supernatural thriller, Cornucopia, is currently in development with cyanfilms (draft 4 was short-listed in the 2008 national “Inscription” competition) and has secured the mentorship of Hollywood story-consultant, Michael Hauge.
Ruth’s romantic comedy The Angst of a Lemming commenced development in November 2009 (producer Scott McDonald, director Richard Jasek). Ruth has entered the industry with a determination to improve the status and representation of writers, and is on the Australian Writers’ Guild (SA) committee as well as SASIC.
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Ian Dinning is a Lecturer of Education, Arts and Social Sciences in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia. He is based at the Magill Campus.