damian walshe-howling
writer/director
One of Australia’s most accomplished actors, Damian Walshe-Howling's many screen credits include the critically-acclaimed television series, Underbelly, (for which he earned an AFI Award), as well as The Secret Life of Us, East West 101 and Blue Heelers. Damian also has appeared in several films, including Macbeth, He Died with a Felafel in his Hand and The Reef. As a director, Damian’s first short film, THE BLOODY SWEET HIT, was screened at festivals around the world such as Flickerfest, London’s SOHO Rushes and Miami Film Festival. Recently, he acted as Fred Schepisi’s director’s attachment on the film, Eye of the Storm.
denson baker acs
director of photography
Denson Baker ACS is cinematographer of international feature films, music videos, documentaries, commercials as well as Director/DP of award winning and Australian Top 10 music videos. He has photographed Academy Award Nominated, Golden Globe & AFI Award winning actors, Grammy & Aria Award winning musicians, international supermodels and distinguished individuals including Toni Collette, The Black Eyed Peas, Tony Hawk, Gemma Ward and Pope Benedict XVI. His feature film credits include The Waiting City, Oranges and Sunshine, The Black Balloon, Birthday and Deck Dogz. In 2005 he was accredited by the Australian Cinematographers Society.
luke doolan
editor
Doolan started working in the film industry in 1997 as an assistant editor. His resume includes editing and director of photography (DOP) work on Australian feature films, short films and commercials. He worked as an assistant editor on Moulin Rouge, which led to a job on Baz Luhrmann’s Alexander The Great in 2003. He recently edited the 2010 Sundance Jury Prize winning feature, Animal Kingdom, as well as Hesher, also screening at Sundance this year. His own credits as a director include the multi-award-winning short film MIRACLE FISH, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010.
lisa shaunessy
producer
Lisa has worked in a variety of production capacities on large-scale Hollywood producitons including Star Wars: Episodes II & III, Peter Pan, and Superman Returns.
in 2006, lisa became the creative executive at Seed Productions, hugh jackman, john palermo and deborra-lee furness' production company, where she developed several feature films and worked on several television series and feature fils such as Xmen Origins: Wolverine and Deception. At chaotic pictures, lisa has produced eight short films and is developing her first feature.
elly bradbury
executive producer
Elly Bradbury has dedicated 20 years to film and television production with credits on 6 Telemovies, 2 Feature films, 2 light entertainment shows, a mini series and over 100 episodes of television. Working for 5 years with Columbia Tristar productions Sydney, Elly played a significant role in the investment of $20 million through a high volume production slate, seeing projects nominated for 4 AFI awards. In the last four years, Elly has travelled the world Producing documentary stories of poverty alleviation for World Vision, most notably starring Hugh Jackman's investigation of micro economic development across Ethiopia. Rebecca Gibney's journey to Malawi investigating Maternal Child Health and Damian Walshe-Howling's road trip across Cambodia investigating human trafficking.
phoebe morgan-hunn
co-producer
Before coming on as a producer at Chaotic Pictures, Phoebe worked on commercial film and television projects in Paris, where she lived after studying for a Commerce degree and a Media and Film Theory degree in Sydney. Recently she produced the Kids At Risk music video clip, 'Doing the Best that we Can', after working closely with them on the Jameson Whiskey funded film, Everything is Super, which she associate produced and production managed. Also in the Jameson series, Phoebe was associate producer on Roman's Ark and production coordinator on Gracie Otto's Seamstress. Currently in development, Phoebe has a TV series and a web series and she is also involved in the development of Chaotic feature film, Chronical. At Chaotic Phoebe produces in-house productions, as well as post-produces client work at sister company, Chaotic Post.
gareth davies
production designer
Designer of numerous campaigns for advertising agencies and design studions, Gareth Davies’ design career began in graphic design. He began working in film as a tech advisor on Superman Returns and since then has worked on many films in design, including early concept work on Leon Ford’s critically-acclaimed Griff The Invisible and as production designer on two Seth Larney shorts: The Clearing and Roman’s Ark. He is the co-writer, co- director, designer and animator of One, a short film screened as one of the 16 finalists in the 2010 Movie Extra Tropfest. He is also the director of the 2010 John Jameson/Chaotic Pictures Production, Everything is Super.
seth larney
vfx supervisor
seth worked for many years as a technical advisor and supervisor on major motion pictures such as the Matrix II and III, Star Wars: Episode III, Superman Returns, Fools Gold and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
seth is also a post production and vfx supervisor as well as being a red camera and workflow specialist. in addition to his cuttig edge technical knowledge, his talents as a visual artist were also engaged on many of the same productions and his reputation as a computer artist in well known. seth has also directed several short films, as well as created many visual effects for both film, website and corporate designs. his talents as a visual director extend also to camera operation and now primarily visual effects supervision and short and long form directing.