THE JURY

Luke is an independent producer and also set-up London-based distribution label Cinema16.

He began his career as a runner on films such as Interview with a Vampire before moving on to become Robert Jones’ assistant at his independent production company, The Jones Company (Dirty Pretty Things). He joined the UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund from its inception to become Production and Acquisitions Executive working on such productions as Gosford Park, Sylvia and L’Homme du Train. During this time Luke also produced the short film Je t’aime John Wayne winning the European Film Award, TCM Classic Shorts and a BAFTA nomination.

In 2003 Luke set up the Cinema 16 label producing and distributing a DVD of classic and award winning shorts from some the UK’s most celebrated directors - Ridley Scott, Mike Leigh, Stephen Daldry and Chris Nolan. It was a critical hit and remains a bestseller. In 2004 he produced a second Cinema 16 DVD with the support of European directors including Lars von Trier, Nanni Moretti and Jean-Luc Godard, which is distributed through the pan-European distribution network he established for the label. In 2006 he released Cinema16: American Short Films with the support of directors including George Lucas, Tim Burton, Alexander Payne, Todd Solondz and Gus van Sant. He’s currently producing a World Cinema16 with the support of directors including Park Chan Wook and Alfonso Cuaron, and has recently launched Cinema16 in the US, Japan and Australia.

He is currently producing a feature length music documentary, directed by Jonathan Caouette (Tarnation), featuring Nick Cave, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Belle and Sebastian, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith and Iggy Pop for release in 2008. The film will be the first music documentary to be created almost entirely from user generated material much of it collected over the internet. He is also preparing his debut feature with Toby MacDonald (Je t’aime John Wayne) - a school-set comedy – scheduled for a Summer 2008 shoot.

Peta joined National Geographic Channel in 2004 as the On-Air Scheduler and was promoted to Program and Acquisitions Manager in July 2005.

Bringing 20 years presentation and scheduling experience, Peta has worked at free-to-air networks’ Seven, Nine and Ten. Her roles have included Unit Manager for Network Ten Promotions and Network Presentation Manager, Network Ten.

Peta is responsible for strategic short and long-term program planning and oversees all aspects of programming, presentation, on-air promo placement, and ratings data and analysis.

As the programming manager for NGC in this region, Peta will also work with local Australian and New Zealand production companies and independent producers, continuing to boost NGC’s local offering while scouting for Australian content for global distribution

Flickerfest is presenting a workshop at this year’s festival with Australian Doco director Anna Broinowski. Anna Broinowski is an AFI award winning Director who has been making films since dropping out of acting in 1995. Her latest film is the real-life thriller FORBIDDEN LIE$, which released nationally through Palace films in 2007 after its Adelaide Film Festival premiere, has received 4 AFI nominations, scored in the top ten audience faves at Hotdocs Toronto and Melbourne, and won best documentary at the Rome Film Festival. Her other documentaries include the cult hit HELL BENTO!! (about the Japanese cultural underground), SEXING THE LABEL (about queer Sydney) and HELEN'S WAR (about anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott), which all released theatrically and picked up a few gongs, including a Dendy, a Columbus Bronze Plaque, an AFI and Best Direction at Films Des Femmes in France. Anna's shorts are TSUNAMI (in which Godzilla destroys Bondi Beach) and BURQA, which featured in the 2004 omnibus feature TIME TO GO JOHN.

This workshop is a must for anyone wanting to explore and discuss the role of documentary

Bruce Petty is one of Australia’s best known political satirists and cartoonists[citation needed]. He is a regular contributor to Melbourne's The Age newspaper.

His intricate images have been described as "doodle-bombs" for their free-associating of links between various ideas, people and institutions.

Petty began working for the Owen Brothers animation studio in Melbourne in 1949, before leaving in 1955 to work overseas with work being published in The New Yorker, Esquire and Punch. On his return to Australia, he worked at first for The Bulletin and The Australian before joining The Age in 1976. In 1976, he won an Oscar for his animated film Leisure. He has made a number of other award-winning animated films including "Art", "Australian History", "Hearts and Minds" and "Karl Marx".

A principal partner of Essential Viewing / RB Films, Kylie has produced both drama and documentary. In  2005 she appeared in Screen International’s  article “The Stars of Tomorrow”.

In 2008, Kylie will produce the telemovie SCORCHED for the Nine Network and Granada Int. In 2006 , Kylie produced the 26 part children’s series LOCKIE LEONARD for the Nine Network, Nickelodeon and  Jetix UK, adapted from Tim Winton’s novels of the same name. Lockie Leonard won the 2007 AFI and ATOM awards for the Best Children’s series and was nominated for a BAFTA award. In 2005 she produced the ABC telemovie STEPFATHER OF THE BRIDE, written by Geoffrey Atherden and directed by Roger Hodgman.

Other drama credits include include THE DJARN DJARNS, a half hour drama for SBS which won the Crystal Bear award at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, the first SMALL CLAIMS  telemovie, for Network Ten and UK TV which starred Claudia Karvan and Rebecca Gibney , the feature films FRESH AIR (Co-Producer) made in conjunction with SBS & Channel 4 UK and the award winning short films I WAS ROBERT MITCHUM (director Tim Slade) which sold to SBS, Film Four UK and was ATOM award nominated, CAPITAL V FOR VIRTUE, directed by Roland Gallois (winner Innovation in Direction, St Kilda Film festival) and BLACK TALK (director Wayne Blair) for SBS, AFC and the FTO which won the Best Achievement with an Original Screenplay at  the St Kilda Film Festival and the Dendy Award for Best Film. 

As the short films programmer for SBS TV, Lien Aguilar watches a huge selection of International and Australian short films from a myriad of festivals, distributors and filmmakers each year.
 
She currently programmes SOS (Shorts On Screen), the short film compilation programme on late Saturday nights and also short films where there is an opportunity in the schedule.
 
Before joining programming, Lien was part of the SBSi team for three years, where she had the privilege to work closely with Australian filmmakers on the delivery of quality Australian content to SBS TV.