Contacts

Chief Executive: Christina Alvarez

Operations

Operations Manager: Stella Collier

Finance Manager: Nadine Wheeler

Administrator: Jane Grimley

Administration Assistant: Robert Gadsbey 

metro@metroscreen.org.au

Marketing, Sponsorship and Events

Marketing and Communications Manager: Tiani Chillemi

t.chillemi@metroscreen.org.au

Web & Design Coordinator: Damien Dunstan

d.dunstan@metroscreen.org.au

Metro Screen Network Coordinator: Craig Boreham

network@metroscreen.org.au

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Learning and Development Manager: Bethany Bruce

Program Coordinator - Certificate IV in Screen + Media | Scholarships: Carine Chai

Program Coordinator - Short Courses | PT Certificate IV in Screen + Media | Young Filmmakers: Mary Kirkness

Program Coordinator - Scholarships: Erin Good

learning@metroscreen.org.au

HIRE AND POST PRODUCTION

Hire and Post Production Manager: Martin Renaud

Hire and Post Production Assistant: Leigh Ockey & William Pidgeon

Technical Manager: Matt Webster

hire.post@metroscreen.org.au

PRODUCTIONS AND PROJECTS

Productions and Projects Manager: David Opitz

Productions and Projects Coordinator: Craig Boreham

d.opitz@metroscreen.org.au

Board of Directors

kath shelper: President

Kath’s most recent production is Beck Cole’s first feature 'Here I Am', which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in February this year. Prior to this, Kath produced Warwick Thornton’s feature film 'Samson & Delilah', which won the Camera d’Or for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. She also produced Beck Cole’s documentary about the making of the film - 'Making Samson & Delilah' - which premiered at Melbourne Film Festival and screened at Telluride Film Festival alongside the feature film. Kath has made lots of short films including 'Plains Empty' (Sundance), 'Green Bush' (Best Panorama Short Film, Berlin Film Fest), 'Confessions of a Headhunter' (Best Short, Australian Film Institute Awards), 'Above the Dust Level' (Best Comedy, Melbourne Film Festival), and 'House Taken Over' (nominated, Australian Film Institute Awards). She also produced the TV series 'Bit of Black Business' of which NANA (Crystal Bear, Berlin Film Fest) and 'Hush' (Audience Prize, Creteil Women’s Film Fest) were a part. She received the Inside Film Award for Rising Talent in 2005.

Eloise schnierer: Vice President

Eloise was born and raised in Byron Bay on the North Coast of NSW. She is of Torres Strait, New Caledonian and Hungarian descent. Eloise is a lawyer and runs her own practice, Watego Legal and Consulting, a firm specialising in media, arts, entertainment and Indigenous legal issues as well as legal and social research. Eloise has anchored the weekend edition of NITV National News and presented sports news on the Barefoot Rugby League Show on National Indigenous Television. She has also previously worked as a lawyer for FOXTEL, Legal Aid and SBS. While at SBS, she read the National Aboriginal News on the SBS Aboriginal radio program.

Grant Logan: Treasurer

Grant joins the board as Treasurer. Grant is currently a director with Corporate Express Australia Limited having joined the company as Chief Financial Officer in 2003. Grant has extensive business and financial experience, and has held senior executive positions with a number of international, private and publicly listed companies, including Goodman Fielder, Philips Electronics and Bayer Australia. During his career Grant has held direct accountability for finance, audit, treasury, legal, secretariat, corporate communications and IT functions.

Brad Cooke

Brad is a Bidjigal man from La Perouse in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. The director of Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships, he works closely with Indigenous communities in Redfern-Waterloo. He began his working career at the Commonwealth Employment Service as an Employment Officer and left in 1996 to join the Office of Film and Literature Classification as a Client Liaison Officer. During his time at the OFLC, Brad became the first Indigenous person in Australia to assess material for classification. Whilst at the OFLC, he became a community broadcaster at Eastside Radio 89.7FM in Paddington on the Cinemascape movie review show in 2000. Following this, he joined the Eastside Radio Sport's team and then presented his own magazine style radio show Game On. In August of 2003, Brad became the General manager of Gadigal Information Service and helped it grow to where it is today. He still continues to broadcast on Koori Radio on the award winning Sweet Science National Boxing Show on Monday nights. Recently Brad has ventured into television as host of the Barefoot Rugby League Show on National Indigenous Television and is also lead commentator on their coverage of Cricket, Rugby League, Rugby Union, and Touch Football.

Michael Easton

With over 12 years experience as a lawyer in the media and entertainment industries, Michael Easton is the principal of Michael Easton Legal. He has worked on numerous large and small budget film projects, broadcasting and online legals, music publishing and recording contracts, event management, advertising agency work, performers contracts and many other kinds of creative industry issues. Michael has also worked in-house for public and pay tv broadcasters and helped set up FBi Radio, of which he is now a life member. In 1990 Michael's filmmaking career began and ended with the no-budget zombie film - My Kitchen Your Funeral.

Ian Gardiner

Ian is the co-founder and CEO of Viocorp, Australia's leading online video company. Ian co-founded the company in 2002 and has successfully grown it into an established and profitable operation. Viocorp employs almost 30 staff from its headquarters in East Sydney. He is the co-founder and President of the Australian arm of the Oxford Business Alumni. He is also a member of the advisory board for Sydney University's Business Information Systems department where he guest lectures on innovation and entrepreneurialism. Ian holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Oxford where he also won two rowing blues.

JAROD GREEN

Jarod began his own digital media company in 2001 with a dream to revolutionise content distribution in the education system. Nine years later he sold the business to become a partner of the Sydney-based social media strategy and content company - Radical Love. Focusing on digital distribution methods and building social marketplaces, Jarod has collaborated on digital media concepts for brands including 20th Century Fox, Diageo, Virgin Blue, Novartis and Westpac. In 2010 he helped pioneer a new social-broadcast distribution model with ABC TV for the series Beached Az – a case study in successful online content creation that turned a $16 film into a multi-million dollar brand – developing strategies for distribution across social networks, broadcast channels, mobile applications, online and retail. He is also a contributor and consultant to the NSW government on digital media and the social media ambassador for his beloved Sydney Swans.
 

CLAIRE MORGAN

Claire is an adult education professional who is passionate about life-long learning and innovative program delivery. She currently works as a literacy and ESL teacher in two Sydney prisons where she teaches both sentenced prisoners and those on remand. Claire was Metro Screen's Learning and Development Manager from 2006 to 2010 where she increased the range of training courses on offer, established e-learning programs and introduced the Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media. In the world of media education, Claire has also served as a board member of Arts Training NSW and worked as a teacher trainer for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. Earlier professional roles have included print and radio journalism, translation, media strategy with UK agency Futerra and environmental policy for British Telecom and the UNEP. Claire speaks Spanish and French and is learning Italian. She was educated at the University of Cambridge, the University of Technology, Sydney and Middlesex University.

EMMA MORONEY

Emma is the Supervising Producer at Movie Network Channels, part of the Foxtel/Austar subscription television platform. After a career spanning 16 years working in all manner of productions from world class ad campaigns, to TV series including the seminal Secret Life of Us, and feature films such as Philip Noyce's Quiet American, in recent years Emma has produced a number of large scale TV events and series in the highly competitive multi-channel environment that is subscription TV. Credits include drama series Chandon Pictures, The Jesters, & Small Time Gangster, light entertainment programs Flickerfest on Extra, AFI Awards, Movie Extra Tropfest, Henry Rollins Live From Melbourne, CDLIVE, & Crown Australian Celebrity Poker Challenge and factual series 'To Be Or Not To Be'. Recently, Emma has immersed herself in the multi-platform media environment in support of the drama series The Jesters & Movie Extra Tropfest and in 2010 launched Movie Extra Webfest to help encourage emerging filmmakers into the online content space.

Cate Smith

Cate has over 20 years experience in the entertainment industry. Key positions include Marketing Director BMG Music, Creative Director BMG Music, and VP Global Marketing Asia-Pacific SonyBMG. Cate currently holds the position of Marketing Director at Paramount Pictures Australia where she is responsible for developing innovative marketing solutions to launch in excess of 20 films per year both from Australian and International filmmakers.

LOUISE SMITH

Louise Smith has been working in the production of television commercials and feature films for more fifteen years. She has gained an international reputation for her collaborations with stellar directing talents including Nash and Joel Edgerton, renowned actor Rachel Griffiths, and internationally recognised commercials director Derin Seale. Her work has screened at festivals such as SXSW, Sydney International Film Festival (In Competition), Telluride, Sundance, Aspen and Berlin and has been awarded honours by the Toronto Short Film Festival, Palm Sprints and Puchon. In 2002 she co-produced the feature film 'The Rage in Placid Lake' staring Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Garry McDonald and Miranda Richardson. In 2008, she produced the feature film 'The Square', directed by Nash Edgerton and written by Joel Edgerton & Matthew Dabner which was nominated for 7 AFI Awards and has been theatrically released in France and the USA.

Chris Winter

Chris Winter works for the ABC’s Innovation Division, and comes from a long background in new media [interactive TV, multi-platform projects, recent datacasting and mobile TV trials, iTV free-to-air] and for three years was the establishing manager of ABC2. Chris was recently invited to join the Federal Government’s Information Technology Industry Innovation Council. Chris’s previous life was in radio, including several years as international marketing manager for an ABC developed non-linear audio editing system sold to some of the biggest radio newsrooms in the world. He is a member of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, the Music Council of Australia, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. He has contributed to the annual conferences of the Screen Producers Association of Australia since 1999 and participated in every XMediaLab held in Australia. In 2004 Chris was the joint recipient of an ARIA Award for Best Music DVD for his production work on Midnight Oil’s Best of Both Worlds, and was presented with AIMIA’s 2007 Outstanding Contribution Award.