General Manager: Christina Alvarez

Finance and Administration
Finance Manager: Nadine Wheeler
Administrator: Jane Grimley
Administration Assistant: Robert Gadsbey
metro@metroscreen.org.au

Marketing, Publicity AND MEMBERSHIP
Marketing + Communications Manager: Katrina Tucker marketing@metroscreen.org.au
Web & Design Coordinator: Benjamin Maher b.maher@metroscreen.org.au
Metro Screen Network Coordinator: Kate Taylor network@metroscreen.org.au
      
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT STAFF CONTACT DETAILS
Learning and Development Manager: Bethany Bruce
Program Coordinator - short courses | part-time Certificate IV in Screen + Media | Young Filmmakers: Kate Vinen
Program Coordinator - full-time Certificate IV in Screen + Media | Scholarship courses: Liz Cooper
Program Coordinator - Tailored Training| Mobile Unit | Scholarship courses: currently vacant
learn@metroscreen.org.au

HIRE AND POST PRODUCTION
Hire and Post Production Manager: Ingrid Rowell
Hire and Post Production Coordinator: John-Paul McElwee
Hire and Post Production Assistant: Pete Ward
Technical Manager: Matt Webster
hire.post@metroscreen.org.au
      
PRODUCTIONS AND Projects
Productions and Projects Manager: David Opitz
Production and Projects Coordinator: Craig Boreham
d.opitz@metroscreen.org.au

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marcus Gillezeau: President
Marcus is an innovator in digital media and cross-platform content creation and is
co-director of Firelight Productions. As a producer, Marcus’ slate has covered a
diverse range of formats and subjects from social political documentaries,
entertainment television, adventure travel series and screen biographies. He has
delivered two documentary series and nine international documentary co-productions in the last eight years. This year Marcus won the International Digital Emmy Award for Digital Program: Fiction by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his all-media drama Scorched. It is the first time an Australian project has won this
prestigious award. Marcus was the NSW Chapter Head at the Screen Producers’ Association of Australia for 4 years. Marcus has also published Hands On – New Technology in Documentary Making and Hands On – A Practical Guide to Production and Technologies in Film/TV and New Media. He has delivered presentations at numerous industry conferences and seminars.

Liz Watts: Vice President  news  news  news
Liz Watts is an independent producer and partner of Porchlight Films based in Sydney and her feature credits include the Cannes and Sundance selected Jewboy [2005, Director Tony Krawitz], Animal Kingdom [2009, Director David Michôd], The Home Song Stories [2007, Director Tony Ayres], Little Fish  [2005, Director Rowan Woods] and Walking On Water, [2002 Director Tony Ayres]. Liz’s television credits include Like A Virgin [2009 ABC TV], Martha's New Coat [2003, SBS, Director Rachel Ward], Delivery Day [2001, SBS, Director Jane Manning] as well as documentaries including Buried Country [2000, SBS]; The Pitch [1998, ABC] and Island Style [1999, SBS]. Liz has worked with all key investment bodies throughout Australia, has strong international ties with financiers and production entities, and is known for working with the very best in Australian directing, writing and acting talent.

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.

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.

Sharon Connolly
Sharon Connolly has more than 20 years experience in the Australian film and television industry. She has been a writer, script editor, director and producer in film, television and multimedia. In the 1980s she co-founded Yarra Bank Films, for which she produced and directed documentaries including Red Matildas, Keen as Mustard, Land Bilong Islanders and Paper Trail. Sharon has held senior positions with Film Victoria, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Film Australia. As Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Film Australia from 1997-2004 she led the company through a major and successful repositioning whilst overseeing production of some of its highest profile titles.

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.

Eloise Schnierer
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, specialising in media and entertainment. She is also employed as a part-time Senior Researcher with the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. 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.

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.  

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.

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.