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Statement concerning the AFC-ScreenSound Australia integration

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We who have signed this statement believe that the National Film and Sound Archive must be an independent body and that its integrity and autonomy should be protected by legislation. We recommend that:

1. The National Film and Sound Archive be established as an independent Statutory Authority of the Australian Parliament;

2. In the meantime, the AFC should act as caretaker of the NFSA and keep it intact as an autonomous entity within the AFC;

3. Dismantling of structures already begun be reversed, and no further changes occur until a new Director of the Archive is appointed, and there has been a renewed process of consultation with stakeholders and Government which is proper, expert, open and extensive.

Signed by

(in alphabetical order; organizations listed for identification purposes only)

A

Prof. Richard Abel, Robert Altman Professor of Film Studies, University of Michigan, USA
Peter Aberg, Education Producer
Erica Addis, Director of Cinematography, Film & Television Director
Dr. Jan Alderhoven, Green Cape Wildlife Films (Kangaroos: Faces in the Mob, Attenborough Series, include Trials of Life, Life of Birds)
Sven Allerstrand, Director, Swedish National Moving Image and Recorded Sound Archive
Barbara Alysen, Lecturer, School of Communication, Design and Media; author, (The Electronic Reporter, Broadcast Journalism in Australia)
Christina Andreef, Writer/Director (Soft Fruit, Shiver)
Martha Ansara, Documentary director/producer, film historian; project and former fund manager, Australian Film Commission; AFI Byron Kennedy Award 1989 / Sydney
Gil Appleton, Commissioner AFC 1983-86, Chair, NSW Arts Advisory Council 1999-2003
Ray Argall, Film and television director, Cinematographer

 

B

Michelle Baddiley, Senior archive Researcher/Producer, Four Corners, ABC Television
Julie James Bailey, Emeritus Professor Film & Media, Griffith University, fmr member Australian Broadcasting Tribunal
Gara Baldwin
Iola Baines, Swyddog Datblygu Ffilm/Film Development Officer, Archif Sgrin a Sain Genedlaethol Cymru, National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
Steven
Ball, Research Fellow, British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection, Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, London
Prof. Geremie Barmé, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University, filmmaker
Antonia Barnard, Producer, Line Producer
Tony Barry, Actor
Tony Barta, Research Fellow, History and Film Studies, La Trobe University
William Barton, Musician, Composer
Dr Linda Barwick, Director, PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) and Senior Research Fellow Department of Music, University of Sydney
Lucy Battersby
, Australia Secretary, Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive
Malcolm Batty, Producer
Victoria D Belarmino, Culture and Arts Officer/Film Archivist, Visual, Literary and Media Arts Department, Cultural Center of the Philippines
Sharon
Bell, Documentary film producer, Film Educator, Former Head of Studies AFTRS
Massimo Benvegnù, Film Critic and Archivist, Venice Film Festival, Italy
Dr Ina Bertrand (chair), Principal fellow, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne; Co-editor ‘Oxford Companion to Australian Film’; writer, film and television researcher/ Melbourne

Lourdes Blanco, Author, Conservator, fmr Director National Audiovisual Archive of Venezuela, National Library of Venezuela
Annette Blonski, script editor, consultant, writer
Don Boadle, Director, Charles Sturt University Regional Archives
Kirsty Bolton: Curator
Wendy Borchers, Archive Producer/Researcher, Australian Brodcasting Corporation, specialising in Australian history television productions
Stephanie Boris PFAF Document Imaging Project, Berkely Art Museum, University of
California
Prof. Anne Boyd AM, Composer, Professor of Music, Music Department, Sydney University
David Bradbury, Documentary Filmmaker, Twice nominated Academy Award
Veronica Brady, Hon. Snr Research Fellow Dept. English, University of WA
James Bradley, Writer
Gil Brealey AO, Producer/Director, Founding Chair and Dir. SA Film Corporation, Fdg Chair
Tasmanian Film Corporation
Frank Bren, actor, playwright, film and theatre historian
Nicole Brenez, Curator Avant-Garde Programs, Cinematheque Francaise; Maitre de Conferences, Paris I University
Dr Jody Brooks, Senior Lecturer, School of Theatre, Film & Dance, UNSW
Bryan Brown, Actor
Kevin Brownlow, author, film and television producer, film historian and restorer, UK
Kent Buchanan Education/Public Programs Officer, Dubbo Regional Gallery
Anthony Buckley AM, Film and television producer and historian; producer of Caddie; former commissioner, Australian Film Commission; AFI Raymond Longford Award 2000; SSA Ken G. Hall Award 2000; BIFF Chauvel Award 2003/ Port Douglas
Greg Burgmann, Oscar Nomination for Sound, The Thin Red Line; Twice ASSG award winner
Geoff Burton, ACS Cinematographer, Drama/Documentary Director,

Peter Butt, Documentary director/producer specialising in history/archive productions/ Sydney

C

Mary Ann Cade - Excess/Reinsurance Coordinator, CCMSI, Danville, Illinois USA
Neil Carmona-Vickery,
Teacher (Media), Ringwood Secondary College
Corinne
Cantrill, Filmmaker, Co-editor/Publisher Cantrill's Filmnotes
Arthur Cantrill, Filmmaker, Senior Associate Professor (Emeritus) Media Arts, University of Melbourne
Belina SB Capul, Senior Archivist, Staff Director, Motion Picture Division, Philippine Information Agency, Philippines
Raffaele Caputo, film writer
Suzanne Chauvel Carlsson, Author, daughter of Charles & Elsa Chauvel, filmmakers
Philip Carrick, Broadcaster
Glen Carruthers, Green Cape Wildlife Films (Kangaroos: Faces in the Mob, Attenborough Series, include Trials of Life, Life of Birds, )
Lisa M Carter, Audio-Visual Archivist, University of Kentucky, USA
Owen Chambers, Producer
Annmarie Chandler, Director, Emerging Field of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Technology, Sydney
David Chandler, Arts Media & Entertainment Producer
Wayne Chapman, Producer
Roz Cheney, Radio Broadcaster, Fmr Arts Editor, ABC Radio
Dr. Paolo Cherchi Usai, Film archive director, author, teacher, USA
Barbara Chobocky, Documentary Director, Former Director, Board of the Australian Film Institute
Christine Choo, Independent Scholar and Historian
A/Prof. Hart Cohen, School of Communication, Design & Media, University of Western Sydney
Bob Connolly, Documentary filmmaker, Academy Award Nominee, Black Harvest, Rats in the Ranks, Facing the Music
Dr. Jane Connors, Historian, Broadcaster, Radio National, ABC
Dany Cooper, Australia Film Editor (The Well, Queen of the Damned)
Hunter Cordaiy, Film writer, Lecturer in Communications and Scriptwriting, University of Western Sydney
Michael Cordell, Documentary Filmmaker, M D Hilton Cordell Productions, fmr member ScreenSound Interim Council
Eva Cox, Commentator on public affairs
Donald Crombie, Film & Television Director (Caddie), President Australian Screen Directors' Association
Mick Counihan, Snr Research Fellow, School of Applied Communication, RMIT University
Professor Ann Curthoys, Manning Clark Professor of History, Australian National University/ Canberra

 

D

Henry Dangar, ASE Past President, Australian Screen Editors Guild
John Daniell AM, Film Consultant, Director Project Development, Australian Film Commission 1975-82, Former Exec Dir. Screen Producersí Association
Dr. Adrian Danks, Cinema Studies Coordinator, School of Applied Communication, RMIT University, President/Co-Curator Melbourne Cinematheque

Mark Davis, Presenter Dateline SBS TV
Jane de Couvreur, Writer
Robin de Crespigny, Writer/Director, fmr Lecturer in Directing, AFTRS
Dr. Brian Crozier, Senior Curator Social History, Queensland Museum
Associate Professor Jonathan Dawson, University of Tasmania, academic,writer, film maker
Anne Deveson AO, Broadcaster, Writer, fmr head AFTRS
Glenys Dimond, Consultant historical researcher and museum curator
Margaret Drane
, Writer/producer
Dr Livio Dobrez, Reader, Humanities, Arts Faculty, Australian National University
Dr. Patricia Dobrez, Visiting Fellow, Humanities, Arts Faculty, Australian National University
Gary Doust, Documentary Filmmaker, Founder Popcorn Taxi, AFI Byron Kennedy Award
John Duigan Director (Flirting, Molly, Wide Sargasso Sea)

E

Tom Eccles, Audiovisual Archivist, Canberra
Ray Edmondson OAM (secretary), International archiving consultant, writer and teacher; former Deputy Director, National Film and Sound Archive (1984 - 2001); former President, SEAPAVAA (1996-2002); AMIA Silver Light Award 2003 / Canberra
Michael Edols, ACS Cinematographer
Helen Edwards, Music Teacher
Dr. Ross Edwards AM, Composer
Prof. Thomas Elsaesser, Professor of Art and Culture, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Debi Enker, Chief Television Writer, The Green Guide, The Age

F

Anne Fleming: fmr Keeper of the Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive; fmr Curator of the BFI's National Film and Television Archive
Pat
Fiske, Documentary Filmmaker, Business Behind Bars
A/Prof William Fitzwater, TV producer and director
Gerard Foley, State Film Archivest: Battye Library, State Library of Western Australia
David Francis OBE, Archival consultant and writer, former Curator, National Film Archive (UK; former Chief, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (USA) / Washington DC (USA)
Malcolm Fraser
AC CH; Former President, CARE International (1990-95), former Prime Minister (1975-83)
Lisa
French, Fmr Director, St. Kilda Film Festival, Lecturer in Cinema Studies and Communication, Writer

G

Brett Galt-Smith, Member, Indigenous Reference Group, ScreenSound Australia, Fmr Research Director, Strehlow Research Centre
Lars Gaustad, Technical Committee Chair International Assosiation of Sound and AudioVisual Archives
Jackie
Gelling , Negative Cutter/Matcher, Chris Rowell Productions P/L
Nancy Goldman, Head, PFA Library and Film Study Centre, Pacific Film Archive, USA
Prof. Lyn Gorman, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University
Trevor Graham, Documentary Director, Mabo:Life of an Island Man, former Head of Documentary AFTRS
Paul Griffiths, Broadcaster

 

H

Kathleen Hackett, Photo Librarian, Powerhouse Museum (fmr Senior Film Researcher, ABC TV)
Albrecht
Haefner, Radio archivist, Past Secretary-General, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, Germany
David Hannay, Producer
Verne Harris, Director, South African History Archive, South africa
Chris Harrison, Fmr Audiovisual Cataloger, National Library of Australia, Exec Committee
Member, Friends of the NFSA
Prof. Sylvia Harvey, Professor of Broadcasting Policy, Principal Associate Director, AHRB Centre for British Film & Television Studies,University of Lincoln UK
Dr. Wendy Haslem, Cinema Studies, University of Melbourne
Denise Haslem ASE , Producer/Editor, Mabo - Life of an Island Man, Past President Australian Screen Editors Guild
Mark Hastings, Radio Producer
Dr. Felix Hayman, Producer
Megan Heyward, New Media Artist, Program Coordinator - Media Arts and Production, University of Technology, Sydney
Roger Hillman, Head, Film Studies, Australian National University
Bruce Hodsdon, Audiovisual Coordinator, State Library of Queensland
Bob Hogg AO, Issues management consultant, former Prime Ministerial adviser
Jan-Christopher Horak, AV Archive Director, Editor of AMIA journal The Moving Image , USA
Alexander Horwath, Fmr Head, Vienna Film Festival, Director Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Austria

I

Bridget Ikin, Film Producer, Angel at My Table, The Tracker
Louis Irving ASC, Cinematographer.(Water Rats, The Cooks, The Alice, Wrong Side of the Road and many more)
Dr. Terry Irving, Historian, Past President, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Akira Isogawa, Fashion Designer

 

J

Prof. Liz Jacka, Film & Television Historian, Interim Director Transforming Cultures & Fmr Dean, Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences, UTS,
Renée Jackaman, Archivist, Cornwall Record Office, UK
Steve
Jacobs, Film Director
Clyde Jeavons, Film historian, Archivist, fmr Director National Film &Television Archive, BFI
Tom Jeffrey AM, Film and television company director; Chair, CREATE Australia; former Chair, Australian Film and Television School (1976-81); former President, Screen Producers’ Association of Australia (1997-2000) / Sydney
Karen Johnson
Erica Jolly,
Australia Teacher of media, former member Flinders University Council,
Education Liaison Australian Federation of University Women, S.A.
Caroline Jones AO, Radio and television broadcaster, film producer, presenter Australian Story ABC TV
Ronald Jones, Director, Jones & Whitehead
Nicholas Jose, Writer

K

Tina Kaufman, Freelance Writer on Film & Media, Fmr Editor Film News
Tony Kelly, Company Director - Digital Lucida, Victoria, Australia
Brendon Kelson, Museum Consultant, Fmr Director, Australian War Memorial (1990-94); fmr Deputy Director, Australian National Gallery (1982-90)
Tom Kenneally AO, Writer, Booker Prize for Schindlerís Ark 1982
Richard Keys, Fmr Project Officer, Australian Film Commission, Curator Emeritus, NFSA
Prof. Martin Koerber M.A. Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
Edith R.
Kramer, Senior film curator and Director, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley California,
Sam
Kula, Past President, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) (2000-2004), Board member, AV Preservation Trust of Canada

L

Lorna Lander, Administrative Officer
Sylvia Lawson, Writer
Sylvie Le Clezio, Documentary Filmmaker, fmr Film Distributor, Festival Director
James Leahy, Film historian, scriptwriter, lecturer and actor, editor, Vertigo (Film Journal) UK
Denise Leitch, Writer
Tim Lewis, Film Editor (AFI doco editing award), owner of post facility The Joinery.
Penny Lomax, Producer
Pat Lovell AM MBE, Film Producer, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli,
Mark Lower, Marketing Manager
Peter Luck, Documentary Filmmaker, Historian, Broadcaster, This Day Tonight, Four Corners, This Fabulous Century
John Lyons, Broadcaster, Editor

M

David MacDougall, Ethnographic Filmmaker, Professorial Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
Prof. Stuart MacIntyre, Professor of History, Dean Faculty of Arts, Melbourne University
Lachlan Madsen, Senior Writer Producer, Walt Disney Television (Disney Channel - Creative Services)
Debora Magyar, Freelance Asst. Negative Cutter
James Malone, University lecturer and communications consultant; former Executive Director, Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations (FACTS); member, Advisory Committee on the National Film Archive (1981-84); Deputy Chair, National Film and Sound Archive Advisory Committee (1984/85)/ Melbourne
Prof. Richard
Maltby, Professor of Screen Studies and Head of the School of Humantiies, Flinders University
Sarah Ziebell Mann, Director of Collections, American Museum of Moving Image; Chair, Cataloguing Standards Review Subcommittee, Association of Moving Image Archivists, Board of Directors, Independent Media Arts Preservation, USA
Natasha Marfutenko, Client Services Coordinator, ABC Archives
Barbara Masel, Television Script Editor & Commissioning Editor
Gwenda Matthews, Retired Official, UN
Brian May, Researcher, ABC Archives
John Maynard, Producer, The Bank, The Boys, The Navigator
Dr. Alan Mayne, Snr Lecturer in History, University of Melbourne
Janet McBain Curator, Scottish Screen Archive, UK
James McCarthy, Past President, Australasian Sound Recordings Association & International Association of Sound Archives
Dr Sigrid McCausland (deputy secretary), University Archivist, Australian National University/ Canberra
Peter McGregor, Lecturer, Media & Film Studies, University of Western Sydney
Siobhan McHugh, Author, Documentary Maker, Oral Historian, Winner NSW Premier's Award for Non-Fiction
Simon Mclean, Writer on cinema
Andrew McLennan, Director
Dr. Don McMichael CBE, Fmr Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs, Fmr Director, National Museum of Australia
Kathryn Millard, Writer, Director
Jenni Meaney Documentary Cinematographer
Sue Milliken, Independent film producer; former Chair, Australian Film Commission (1994-97); AFI Raymond Longford Award, 1993/ Sydney
Jane Mills, Film Writer, Lecturer, Fmr Head Screen Studies, AFTRS
James Mitchell, Producer
Dr. Gino Moliterno, Head, School of Humanities, ANU, teacher of film studies
Anna-Maria Monticelli, Film Producer/Writer
Mary Moody, Writer
Ingrid Mueller, Senior Photo Archivist, Austrian Filmmuseum
David Muir, Scriptwiter/director/cinematographer; Past President Victorian branch Australian Cinematographers Society , lecturer Victorian College of the Arts, School of Film and Television.
Bronwyn Murphy, Sound Recordist, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Cup, Mabo - The Life and Times of an Island Man
Justin Murphy, Australia Broadcaster
Margaret Murphy, Exec. Producer SBS, TV, film director and producer
Dr. Gabrielle Murray, Cinema Studies, La Trobe University
John B Murray, Director/Producer; fmr Pres., Producers & Directors Guild of Australia (Vic); Inaugural Exec. Dir. Film Radio & TV Board, Australia Council for the Arts

 

N

Margot Nash, Writer, Director (Vacant Possession)
A/Prof. Virginia Nightingale, School of Communication, Design and Media, University of Western Sydney
Phillip Noyce, Film director ( Newsfront, Heatwave, The Phantom, Clear and Present Danger,The Quiet American, Rabbit Proof Fence)

 

O

William O'Farrell, Chief, Moving Image and Audio Preservation, National Archives of Canada
Vincent O'Donnell, Exec. Producer, Arts Alive, Past Pres/Life member Producers & Directors Guild of Victoria
Susan Oliver Company director and strategic planning consultant; former chair, ScreenSound Australia Advisory Council (1998-2003)
Christine Olsen Writer/Producer (Rabbit Proof Fence)
Dennis O'Rourke Documentary Filmmaker (Half Life, Cunnamulla) Best Film Berlin Film Festival, Director's Prize - Extraordinary Achievement, Sundance, AFI Byron Kennedy Award.

P

David Parker, Cinematographer, producer, director (The Miracle Worker, Malcolm)
Brigitte Paulowitz, Head of Collections, Austrian Filmmuseum, Austria
David Perry, Producer/Director, Ozco Archival Film Project
Cathy Peters, Producer
Frances Peters-Little, Filmmaker, Historian
Bruce Petty, Filmmaker, Cartoonist, Directed Oscar winner Leisure 1977
Andrew Pike, Film historian, film producer, distributor and exhibitor
Vincent Plush, Composer/Broadcaster/Teacher
Prof. Dana Polan, Professor Critical Studies, School of Cinema-TV, University of Southern California, USA
Professor Chris Puplick AM (deputy chair) Executive Officer, Centre for the Advancement of International Health, University of Wollongong; former Senator and Shadow Arts Minister/ Sydney
Margaret Purcell, Lecturer, Film & Television, North Sydney College of TAFE

R

Dennis Rawady, Director/Producer, Bicorn Productions
Wendy Rawady,
Producer/Writer, Bicorn Productions / ABC TV
Barbara Reed
Director, Recordkeeping Innovation Pty Ltd
Corinna
Reicher, Senior Film Archivist, Austrian Filmmuseum, Austria
Prof. Keith Reader, Professor of Modern French Studies, University of Glasgow
Dean Reynolds, Radio Announcer, Television Producer, Voice Over Artist
Catalina Ribas, University of Barcelona, Spain
Katy Richmond, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, La Trobe University
Jill Robb, Film Producer (Careful He might hear you), Producer ABC Drama 1989-93, Deputy Chair Australian Film Finance Corporation
Nikki Roller, Film Producer
Jon Rose, Musician
Dr. William D. Routt, Writer, (Retíd) Senior Lecturer, Cinema Studies, La Trobe University
Chris Rowell, Negative Cutter/Matcher, Chris Rowell Productions P/L
Mike Rubbo, Documentary Filmmaker, Emmy Award winner
Victoria Rubensohn AM, Fmr chair, NFSA Advisory Council
Richard Ruhle, Secretary, Musicians Union of NSW
Geoffrey Rush Actor
Jeff Rushton AM, Oral Historian, Academic, Fmr Council Member, AFTRS (1981-1987), Fmr Member Advisory Committee and Interim Council National Film & Sound Archive (1984-1991)
Tom Ryan, Film Critic, The Sunday Age

S

Jennifer Sabine, Head, School of Film and Television, Victorian College of the Arts
David
Salter, Independent Television Producer, Journalist
David Sanderson, Manager Digital Cinema - GA&JR Regional Business Unit, Kodak Entertainment Imaging
Sarah Sanderson, Librarian, AFI Research Collection, School of Applied Communication, RMIT University
A/Prof. Eric Schaefer, Dept. Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College, USA
A/Prof. Huib Schippers, Director Qld Conservatorium Research Centre
Peter Sculthorpe AO OBE MBE, Composer
John Seale AM DUniv ACS ASC Cinematographer (The English Patient Oscar for best cinematography; Harry Potter, Ghosts of Missisippi, Dead Poets' Society, Gorillas in the Mist, Witness)
Alan Seymour Playwright/scriptwriter
Brett Sheehy, Festival Director
Jon Shibata, Asst. Film Archivist, Pacific Film Archive, California, USA
Graham Shirley, Film historian, oral historian, film archive researcher; documentary film director specialising in history/archive productions; former board member, Office of Film and Literature Classification/ Sydney
Diana Simmonds, Journalist, Arts Columnist
Clive Smith, Retired Archivist (former Archivist, World Bank, Washington DC)
Jo Smith, Executive Director, Australian Guild of Screen Composers
Scott D. Smith C.A.S. Chicago Audio Works, Inc., Production Sound Mixer, Audio Restoration Specialist (BAFTA -Best Feature Sound "The Fugitive"; Cinema Audio Society Award-Best Feature Mixing "The Fugitive")
Roger Smither, Fmr Secretary-General, International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF); Editor, This Film is Dangerous (UK)
Prof. Pierre Sorlin, Professor of Film, the Sorbonne, Paris, France
Paul Spehr, Archiving consultant, former senior AV archivist, Library of Congress. AMIA Silver Light Award, USA
David Stewart, Education Publisher, Phoenix Education
Esben Storm, Film & Television Writer/Director
A/Prof Jennifer Strauss, School of Literary, Visual and Performing Studies, Monash University
Jill Sykes, Writer, Critic, Editor

 

T

Nadia Tass, Director, producer (Malcolm, Child Star, Miracle Worker)
Hsu-Ming Teo, Historian
Allan James Thomas, Lecturer in Cinema and Communications, RMIT University
Rick Thompson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Cinema Studies, LaTrobe University
Albie Thoms, Filmmaker, author Surfmovies (a history of Australian surfing films)
Merle Thornton, Author, academic, writer/producer/director educational documentaries; member of original National Film and Sound Archive Advisory Committee 1984/85 / Melbourne
Margaret Throsby, Broadcaster
Nick Torrens, Documentary Filmmaker
Dr. Lisa Trahair, Senior Lecturer, School of Theatre, Film and Dance, UNSW
Victoria Treole Senior Acquisitions Executive Miramax Australasia, Former Executive Creative Affairs and former Manager of International Market Development, AFC.
Christopher Tuckfield, Documentary Director/Producer
Dennis Tupicoff, Writer, Director, Animator
Sophia Turkiewicz, Film & Television Director, Acting Head of Directing, AFTRS
John Turner, President, Australian Council of Film Societies
Angela Turner, Research Assistant

V

Frans Vandenburg, Feature and Documentary Film Editor, Restoration Supervisor Newsfront
Deb Verhoeven (webmaster) Senior lecturer, School of Applied Communication and Manager, AFI Research Collection, RMIT University; film critic, 774 ABC; former CEO Australian Film Institute 2000-2002 / Melbourne
Fiona Villela, Editor, Senses of cinema (international online film journal)

W

Dr Mike Walsh Head, Screen Studies Department, Flinders University; convenor of Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand conference 2002/ Adelaide
Storry Walton AM Film producer, writer, arts and museum consultant; former CEO International Cultural Corporation Australia; former Director, Australian Film and Television School / Sydney
Jenny Ward, Sound Editor, Babe 2, Dirty Deeds (2 AFI Awards)
Georg Wasner , Independent Filmmaker, Film Critic, Austria
John Weiley , Film producer; producer of the Imax films The Edge and Antarctica/ Sydney
Rod Webb, Film and television programming consultant, fmr Director Sydney Film Festival, fmr Head of programming SBS TV
Peter Weir, AM, Film director (BAFTA Best Director Master and Commander, The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society, Picnic at Hanging Rock)
George
Whaley, Director/Writer/Actor, Fmr Head Directing AFTRS, Fmr Head of Acting, NIDA
Elisabeth Wheeler
Warner Whiteford, Administrative Officer
Georgina Whitehead, Director, Jones & Whitehead; member Professional Historiansí Association
Anne Whitehead, Author/Historian, "Paradise Mislaid" (winner NSW Premier's Award for Australian History 1998)
Dr Deane Williams, Senior Lecturer, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, Monash University
Kristin Williamson, Novelist, Film & Television Screenwriter (Dog's Head Bay)
David Williamson AO, Playwright, Screenwriter (Gallipoli, Donís Party)
Eleanor Witcombe, Playwright, Screenwriter (My Brilliant Career)
Janette Wright, Director RMIT Publishing, Fmr member ScreenCound Australia Council

Y

Stewart Young Editor, Stanley Hawes Award for Services to Australian Documentary

Z

Andrew Zielinski Coordinator, Australian Cinema, Flinders University

 

 


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