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Maureen Barron - Chair
(Reappointed as Chair to 30 June 2008)
Maureen Barron has extensive business expertise specialising in the entertainment industry. Throughout 2006/07 she was General Manager Corporate for Southern Star Group Limited. Maureen has been a member of the Copyright Tribunal, the Copyright Law Review Committee and the Minister for Trade's WTO Advisory Group. |
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Paul Hamra - Deputy Chair
(Reappointed Deputy Chair for three years to 25 June 2008)
Paul Hamra is Managing Director of South Australian-based publishing company Solstice Media, publisher of The Independent Weekly newspaper. Paul has worked in media, politics and public relations for 20 years in Australia and the United States.
Over 11 years Paul built a national public relations company, specialising in corporate and consumer clients. He sold his business to Young & Rubicam and moved into publishing in 2003.
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Dominic Case
(Reappointed to 30 June 2008)
Dominic Case has over 30 years experience in the film industry, having worked mainly in film laboratories, but also as a post-production consultant on films ranging from What I Have Written (1993) to the restoration of The Sentimental Bloke (1919). He is Director of Communications for the Atlab Group. As Chair of FIBRE (Film Industry Broadband Resources Enterprise) he led an industry-wide group in developing business models for broadband access.
Dominic holds degrees in Physics and Mass Communications and is the author of two books on film and post-production methods. He has also published and presented papers locally and internationally.
He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and also of the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society (BKSTS). As a past Chair of SMPTE's Australian section, and International Governor, he has been honoured with the SMPTE Presidential Proclamation for his outstanding reputation and status in the industry. |
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Thomas A Kennedy
(Reappointed for three years to 7 August 2008)
Tom has over 20 years experience in media and technology, software publishing, distribution and interactive content creation and management. He has been CEO of Media Zoo P/L, a Photon Group Company, and Chairman of the Digital Content Action Agenda Experts Group. In 2005 he received the AIMIA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Industry.
Tom founded Brainwaave Interactive in 1995 as a division of John Fairfax Holdings, before spearheading a management buyout in 1998. He is a former board member and chairman of the Internet Industry Association 2003-05, and was president of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) 1997-98, as well as a board member for 8 years until 2003. He has been an advisor to the Australian Cultural Network and a member of the Digital Television Advisory Group, and is a member of the Joint Singapore Australia IT Council, the Australian Information Economy Advisory Council (AIEAC), and the National Bandwidth Enquiry.
From 2000 to 2004 Tom was a director of the Biennale of Sydney, a major contemporary international arts festival. |
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Sue Masters
(Appointed for three years to 6 June 2008)
Sue Masters has been Head of Drama at Network TEN since October 2000. She is one of Australia's most accomplished television producers.
In 1990 Sue produced Brides of Christ for ABC TV, one of the country's most successful mini-series, followed by a tenure at Roadshow, Coote & Carroll during which she created and produced G.P and Law of the Land. Sue has since been responsible for such acclaimed series as Janus, The Bite and Simone De Beauvoir's Babies. In 1998 she was appointed Head of Drama for ABC TV and in this capacity oversaw the development and production of A Difficult Woman, Wildside, Something in the Air, Grass Roots and Sea Change. Sue also commissioned The Farm, Changi and Head Start.
During Sue's time at Network TEN she has overseen the production of The Secret Life of Us, Heroes' Mountain, White Collar Blue, Crash Burn, The Falls, The Surgeon, The Society Murders and Joanna Lees: Murder in the Outback; the successful telemovie franchises Black Jack and Small Claims; as well as the acclaimed miniseries After the Deluge, Jessica, Tripping Over and Mary Bryant. |
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Rachel Perkins
(Reappointed to 30 June 2008)
Rachel is from the Arrernte and Kalkadoon nations. She is a graduate and past Council Member of the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Trained at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) in Alice Springs, Rachel went on to become an executive producer with both the SBS and ABC Indigenous Units, where she commissioned the National Indigenous Documentary Fund (NIDF) among other series.
Rachel has independently produced and directed a number of documentary series, and set up the finance for the AFC's first Indigenous drama initiative. Her features, Radiance and One Night the Moon, have screened (between them) at the Berlin, London, Toronto and Sundance film festivals, and received three Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. Rachel was awarded the Byron Kennedy AFI Award in 2002 for her contribution to the Australian film industry. She is currently completing an eight-hour series for SBS on the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, entitled First Australians. |
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Colin South
(Reappointed for three years to 30 June 2008)
Colin started in the television industry in 1972 working in the props department at Channel 10 in Melbourne. From 1975 he produced career and training films for the Federal Department of Labour before co-founding the independent production company Media World in 1982, producing live-to-air sport, music, documentaries and feature films.
Since establishing Animation Works Pty Ltd in 1994, Colin has produced six animated television series, including the current children's comedy series Dogstar.
With offices in Melbourne and Perth, Media World Pictures continues to develop and produce animated and live action film and television drama. Its latest productions are the mini-series The Circuit and the feature film, To Hell and Bourke. |
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Antonio Zeccola
(Reappointed to 30 June 2008)
Antonio Zeccola is the Managing Director of Palace Films and Palace Cinemas with a 40-year history of distributing quality local and international titles in Australia and New Zealand. He has received credit as Executive Producer for Paul Goldman's Australian Rules and Rolf de Heer's Alexandra's Project, which was officially selected for screening at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003, where it was nominated for a Golden Bear.
Antonio has a strong commitment to the Australian film industry and has invested in significant Australian films including The Book of Revelation, Irresistible and Macbeth.
Palace Cinemas is Antonio's exhibition division, with 73 screens across 21 locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Antonio's passion for restoring, reinvigorating and saving cinema icons has led him to acquire and refurbish the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney and the Westgarth in Melbourne. |
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