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Kirsty de Garis – Writer/Director/Producer
Kirsty de Garis completed an Arts degree at Sydney University in 1998, where part of her studies focused on the adaptation of books into films. She began her journalism career at The Observer newspaper in London, where she also completed a Masters degree at London Metropolitan University. At The Observer Kirsty wrote a variety of arts-based features such as TV and book reviews, and current affairs in the arts sphere. A highlight of her time at The Observer was a series of interview with people who whose lives had been developed into feature films - including Larry Flynt, Bella Freud, Frank Serpico and Frank Abagnale Jr.
She returned to Australia in 2004, where she secured a role in documentary at The Australians at War Film Archive, interviewing war veterans, The work took her across rural and metropolitan NSW, interviewing war veterans from World War Two, Vietnam and Korea. She developed skills in extensive, in-depth interviewing over long time periods. The material gathered by the archive is used as an oral history record & also for documentary films made about any conflict in which Australia has been involved. 2000 people were interviewed over the course of two years for the archive.
It was during this experience that the idea formed about making a documentary film about Dominick Dunne, when she interviewed him for the Australian magazine Autore.
Kirsty currently lives in Sydney, Australia and works as a freelance journalist for China Vogue, Belle and Vive and has contributed to British Elle, New Woman, Cooler and Heath & Fitness.
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne is her first feature-length documentary as co-director, writer, and producer.
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Timothy Jolley – Writer/Director/Producer
Tim graduated from the VCA School of Film and TV in 2004, where he completed the Post Grad. Dip. (Producing). At the VCA, Tim produced two acclaimed short films, Tin Truck and Blue Tongue, both with writer/director Justin Kurzel. Blue Tongue screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 in the Critics’ Week section. The film also screened at the New York Film Festival, the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival, where it won the prize for Best Australian Short Film.
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne is Tim's debut feature length documentary which he co-wrote, directed, and produced with his partner, Kirsty de Garis.
Tim has had an unusual path to filmmaking. Prior to pursuing his passion for filmmaking on a full-time basis, Tim worked for the international corporate strategy consultancy, Bain & Co., where he worked with the world's leading corporations across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Australia.
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Sue Maslin – Executive Producer
Sue Maslin is an award-winning screen and digital media producer with credits including the feature films Road to Nhill (1997), winner of Best Film at the Thessaloniki
International Film Festival and Japanese Story (2003) winner of Best Film at the Australian Film Institute Awards, Best Film at IF Showtime Awards and Best Film at Film Critics'
Circle of Australia. She has also independently produced many documentaries that have screened on ABC TV including A Mirror to the People (2000), The Highest Court (1998),
The Edge of the Possible (1998), Conspiracy (1994), Mr. Neal is Entitled to be an Agitator (1991) and Thanks Girls and Goodbye (1987). The Edge of the Possible, a film about Jørn Utzon
and the Sydney Opera House, won the Gold Plaque for Best Television Documentary at the 1999 Chicago International Film Festival. Her most recent projects include the broadband
interactive documentary about William Bligh launched on ABC On-Line and the non-fiction feature film, Hunt Angels which won 7 major awards in 2006 including Best Documentary - L'Oreal AFI Awards,
the Film Critics' Circle of Australia Award for Best Feature Documentary and ATOM Award for Best General Documentary Film. She is currently Producer of the feature,
The Messenger, Executive Producer of Celebrity: Dominick Dunne and about to commence production on the cross-platform broadband project Re-enchantment,
an interactive journey into the hidden world of well known fairy tales to be launched on ABC On-Line and ABC TV.
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Daryl Dellora – Executive Producer
Daryl Dellora has been making documentaries for many years. He is an award-winning writer and director and he executive produced, co-wrote
and directed his first feature length film, Against The Innocent, in 1989. Daryl has been a recipient of an AFC Documentary Fellowship and in 1991 his
Mr. Neal Is Entitled to be an Agitator won the Australian Human Rights Award. In 2005 he was accepted to the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation study centre in Bellagio.
Daryl co-produced the feature Hunt Angels (2006) and has worked closely with producer Sue Maslin through their company Film Art Doco on a raft of documentary
films including The Edge of The Possible, A Mirror to the People, Conspiracy, The Highest Court and Koories and Cops. In 2006 Daryl wrote and directed the
new media project www.williambligh.com.au which is currently available on ABC On-Line. Daryl's first film Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One screened at the
Melbourne Film Festival and was nominated for an AFI award. Daryl's films have screened and sold all over the world including in South East Asia, US,
UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Louisiana Museum Denmark, and the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Suresh Ayyar – Editor
Suresh Ayyar has edited a number of distinguished Australian feature films including Unfinished Sky, Romulus, My Father and The Interview. He has been nominated for seven AFI awards, winning in 1994 for his editing of Bad Boy Bubby.
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Andrew Commis – Director of Photography
Andrew has shot over 20 short films. His most recent credits include the feature length documentary Nature's Way directed by Jane Shearer (winner of the 2006 New Zealand Screen Awards Best Short Film and Technical Craft Achievement in a Short Film, official competition Cannes 2006, official selection Melbourne, London, Stockholm, and Sao Paolo) and Blue Tongue directed by Justin Kurzel (winner of Best Australian Short at Melbourne International Film Festival 2005, official competition Cannes Critics' Week 2005, official selection New York, Stockholm, Oberhausen). In 2007 Andrew shot the feature length documentary Naked on the Inside directed by Kim Farrant and produced by Ian Walker (nominated for a 2007 Dendy Award for Best Documentary and Film Critics' Circle of Australia Award).
Andrew has also shot music videos for the likes of You Am I, Midnight Oil and The Mess Hall as well as more than 100 television commercials. Andrew has won more than a dozen cinematography accolades including Gold Australian Cinematographers' Society Awards. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Film & Television, specialising in cinematography from the Australian Film Television & Radio School in Sydney.
Andrew has recently completed production on Rachel Ward's feature film Beautiful Kate, produced by Leah Churchill-Brown and Bryan Brown.
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Andrew Plain – Supervising Sound Editor
Andrew Plain and his company Huzzah Sound have been providing quality soundtracks to Australian and overseas films, documentaries and television series for the past 10 years. Huzzah has produced the soundtracks for such projects as Phillip Noyce's Catch A Fire; Jane Campion's In The Cut; Gillian Armstrong's Death Defying Acts, Charlotte Gray, Oscar And Lucinda and Unfolding Florence; Ray Lawrence's Lantana and Jindabyne; Neil Arnfield's Candy; Dwight Little's Anacondas: The Search for the Blood Orchid; Peter Duncan's Unfinished Sky; Sarah Watt's Look Both Ways; Rolf De Heer's Alexandra's Project and Bob Connelly and Robin Anderson's Facing The Music, to name a few. Over the years, Huzzah's work has been recognised with numerous awards including nine Australian Film Institute (AFI) nominations and three AFI Awards for Best Sound, an Inside Film (IF) Award for Best Sound Design and a Golden Reel (Motion Pictures Sound Editors - USA) nomination.
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Antony Partos – Composer
Antony Partos has composed the score for a huge variety of projects including the feature films Disgrace, Unfinished Sky, The Home Song Stories, Walking on Water, Monkey's Mask and Crush. His television credits include Always Greener, All Saints, Halifax fp. The Silence and White Collar Blue, while his extensive documentary work covers acclaimed films Growing Up and Going Home, Little Brother, Little Sister, Risky Business, I'll Call Australia Home, The Bridge and Australian Odyssey.
Antony has received a number of awards for his work including Best Music for a feature film AFI Award for The Home Song Stories, Best Music for a Soundtrack AGSC Award for Soft Fruit, Best Music New Zealand Film & Television Award, orchestral score for the feature film Crush, Best Music for a Documentary AGSC Award for Smart's Labyrinth, Best Music for a Documentary AGSC Award for Webs of Intrigue, and Best Music for a Short Film AGSC Award for Stroke.
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