Dungog Film Festival

Presented by the director and the producer

Friday, 28-May-2010

11:00 AM

at: ClarkeKann Theatre

Credits: Dir: Gregory Miller / Prod: Liz Courtney / Cast: Hayley Warner, Narelle Long, and Malcolm Lynch, Professor Robert Swan OBE / 2010

Duration: 60 mins

STUDENT PROGRAM FRIENDLY

For the International Year of Youth, forty teenagers gathered at the bottom of the world in search of new climate change solutions. Three enthusiastic, imaginative Australians joined delegates from India, China, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, UK, Ireland, the USA, and Canada, on a voyage of discovery. Director Gregory Miller recorded this epic mission and will present some footage and background for this incredible undertaking. Join in to explore climate change through the eyes of our selected young delegates as they experience the awe-inspiring natural world of Antarctica.


Gregory Miller: Executive Producer/Director

Miller's film career began in music videos and training films, and in exhibition ad distribution including managing Melbourne's Valhalla Cinema and Sydney's Chauvel Cinemas for the AFI. He has since produced documentary series - Angels in New York (2009) 4 x 28 mins SBS TV C-Director/Co-producer with Liz Courtney (two young Australian-Chinese men took on Broadway) and If It Doesn’t Kill You (99, SBS /AFC) a 5 x 28 min observational documentary series about a group of kids in crisis who learn to sail a pearling lugger through Bass Strait. Not to mention award-winning, one-off documentaries for television including, New Beijing Reinventing a City (2009) Co-Producer with director Georgia Wallace-Crabbe, where the world's super star architects show off their extravagant Beijing icons as Beijing goes through a massive urban transformation - screening SFF 2010. The Final Sacrifice (2007) Discovery Channel Asia, Australian Film Commission, a feature doc about the Gypsies of South India. Besieged-The Ned Kelly Story (2003) Director/ Co-producer with Prod's Ireland ((Network 9, TG4 Ireland, History Channel UK). Life Chances (’95), (SBS/FFC) screened at international festivals worldwide and King Of The Market (2001 SBS/FFC filmed in India) screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival, as well as directing the short dramas, Los Perros (93) and Worlds Apart (97 SBS).



Liz Courtney: Executive Producer/Director

Courtney has a strong international communications background in marketing and journalism spanning over the last 20 years. This marriage of business acumen with creative vision has fuelled a slate of diverse and innovative programming that challenges the audience's definition of television documentary and has created a new genre 'Arts/Adventure' taking arts to a new high and travel to a new level of intelligence. Her drive to expand into the production industry lead to the establishment of Guiding Light Productions in 2002, which followed with the award for the SPAA '2004 Redlich Holding Award', and the development and production of a number of arts/adventure series for local and international broadcasters. Over the last five years, she has Executive Produced: A 7x 30 min Art series titled Art in Reverse for Ovation Cable Channel and ABC TV: Written and directed a short 5 x 5 min series titled Opera Diaries for Ovation Channel; created and executive produced 6 x 30 mins Arts/Adventure series for ABC TV, Discovery International HD. In 2007 she produced the series Monumental Vision HD 6 x 30 min (ABCTV, Discovery International ) and in 2009 Angels in New York 4 x 28 mins SBS .


http://www.filmprojects.com.au/

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