| Beck Cole is an Alice Springs-based filmmaker of the Warumungu and Luritja nations. Her work spans many genres including drama, documentary, comedy, animation, children’s television. Her debut feature film Here I Am, premiered at the 2011 Adelaide Film Festival. She was direct some of Australia’s most popular and award-winning television series from Black Comedy to Wentworth. Her work has screened at film festivals around the world including Sundance, Montreal, Telluride, New York, Melbourne, Sydney and beyond. Tracey Rigney is a Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri woman. She is a storyteller: a published playwright and filmmaker. Her directing credits include Steven Oliver’s web series, A Chance Affair (2018), short films Man Real (2015) and Abalone (2013) . More recently her short film Elders (directed by Tony Briggs) premiered at Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. Danielle Maclean is a Warumungu, Luritja woman and an experienced writer, producer, and director. Her short film My Colour Your Kind (1998) was nominated for AFI and Film Critics awards. Her work has screened nationally at Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival & Brisbane International Film Festival; Internationally at Telluride Film Festival, Valladolid International Film Festival and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Dena Curtis is a writer, director, producer and Warrumungu, Warlpiri and Arrernte woman. Dena has also worked at National Indigenous Television, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Dena’s directing credits include award- winning short films Hush, Jacob and Nan and a Whole Lot of Trouble. Her work has screened at ImagineNative, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Cretiel Film Des Femmes Festival. National film festivals include Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and CinefestOZ. Writer and Director Tim Worrall is a Ngāi Tūhoe man and an alum of The Elam Art School. He was a script advisor on NIki Caro’s Whale Rider and other writing and directing credits include Tits On a Bull, Only in Aotearoa, and This is Piki. Richard Curtis (Te Arawa) is a Ngāti Rongomai, Ngāti Pikiao man and filmmaker with over 30 years experience in the screen industry primarily as a camera op and cinematographer. Ahi Kaa written and directed by Richard won the Best Short Film award at the Hawaii International Film Festival 2015. He is the creator and director of the popular series Hunting Aotearoa now in its fifteenth season. He is currently DOP on Kai Safari & Hunting Aotearoa. Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāpuhi Renae Maihi is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter. Her short films include Mannahatta and Ka Puta Ko Au, and her first feature film, Waru, was released in 2017. She is Māori of Ngāpuhi and Te Arawa descent. Her work has been shown at Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and the ImagiNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto among others. Renae Maihi is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter. Her short films include Mannahatta and Ka Puta Ko Au, and her first feature film, Waru, was released in 2017. She is Māori of Ngāpuhi and Te Arawa descent. Her work has been shown at Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and the ImagiNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto among others. Writer and Director Miki Magasiva is an alum of Film and Television school in Wellington. He has a host of commercial credits to his name as well as short films and television including The Panthers, Brother, Rites of Courage. A member of the well-known comedy group The Naked Samoans, Mario Gaoa is also a well-known actor with credits including What We Do In The Shadows, The Almighty Johnsons, Bro’Town (for which he was also a writer), Samoan Wedding, and Diplomatic Immunity. In addition to directing his share of We Are Still Here he also wrote the script. Other directing credits include Teine Sa, Game of Bros, and radiradirah. |
Beck Cole, Renae Maihi, Tracey Rigney, Chantelle Burgoyne, Mario Gaoa, Miki Magasiva, Richard Curtis, Tim Worrall, Dena Curtis, Danielle MacLean
16 September 2022