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KEVIN HAWKINS

11/8/2019

KEVIN HAWKINS

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Kevin is a Melbourne-based writer who believes video cassettes are the most superior form of home-entertainment media. Underneath his desk are a few hundred VHS cassettes, most of which are either Disney kid’s flicks or Hitchcock murder mysteries.

When not playing with the tracking button on the remote, Kevin writes for Film Blerg and kevinaccessible.wordpress.com.

PHILIPPA HAWKER

11/8/2019

PHILIPPA HAWKER

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Philippa Hawker has been writing on film and the arts for The Age since 1997. She also writes for The Australian and is a former editor of the now defunct Australian film journal Cinema Papers.

REBECCA HARKINS-CROSS

11/8/2019

REBECCA
HARKINS-CROSS

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Rebecca is a writer, editor, critic and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia.

She is currently the film editor for The Big Issue, film columnist for The Lifted Brow and is undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at Monash University. She was a theatre critic at The Age from 2012-2015.

Her writing focuses on arts and culture, specialising in cinema, and has appeared in magazines, journals and newspapers across Australia and the world. These include CNN Style, Art Das Kunstmagazin (forthcoming), The Saturday Paper, The Australian, The Age, Meanjin, Island, Kill Your Darlings, Metro, Senses of Cinema and Fireflies.

In 2017, Rebecca is a participant in RMIT non/fictionLab’s Women Writers in the City project. Her work has been awarded several times by the Australian Film Critics Association, most recently receiving the 2016 Ivan Hutchinson Prize for the essay ‘The Shadow of the Rock‘. She named one of the Melbourne Writers Festival’s 30 Writers Under 30 in 2015 and took part in the Disquiet Literary Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. She was a finalist for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize and undertook a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship in 2014.

Rebecca has been a guest writer, presented panels and read her work at places like the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival, Women of Letters, the Emerging Writers Festival, the National Young Writers Festival, Screen Futures, New News, Express Media News Conference, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Shadow Electric Cinema, Palace Como and Cinema Nova.

She’s delivered writing and journalism workshops at a variety of high schools, universities and writers’ centres, including the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Swinburne University, University of Canberra, Writers Victoria (where she was one of their top-rated tutors) and the New South Wales Writers’ Centre. She also mentored emerging writers at the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Critics Campus and high school journalism program The Under Age, where she was the Project Coordinator from 2012-2014.

She’s also been a judge at the New Horizons Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland, as well as the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival and the Environmental Film Festival in Australia. She was invited to attend the 2016 Berlin Film Festival as a guest of the German Federal Government Visitors’ Programme.

Bio from Rebecca's personal website.

RICHARD HARIDY

11/8/2019

RICHARD HARIDY

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Former Chair of AFCA, Rich also does weekly segments for several ABC FM affiliates, hosts The Parallax Podcast - a podcast featuring a variety of film critics and posts on his website richonfilm.com.

JACQUI HAMMERTON

11/8/2019

JACQUI HAMMERTON

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Jacqui has more than 30 years' journalism experience as a news reporter, feature writer, reviewer, designer, sub-editor and section editor, with a focus on the arts, family issues and real estate, working in metropolitan newspapers, magazines and radio.

RICHARD GRAY

11/8/2019

RICHARD GRAY

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Richard began his career with the Bits back in the early part of the 21st century. Having scared everybody else off, Richard served as Editor-in-Chief of DVD Bits machine until its active closure in 2012. In 2010, Richard launched The Reel Bits. It is now the beast that you see before you.

Richard is also a regular columnist at Newsarama, and appears regularly on the ABC Radio Overnights program as a “film guru”.

Richard’s first book, Moving Target: The History and Evolution of Green Arrow, was published by Sequart in 2017.

Richard’s writing has also been published in places as diverse as Filmink, AUSTAR Magazine, Blockbuster Interaction, SBS Film’s Social Review, ArtsHub, Trespass Magazine, METRO Magazine, the official Japanese Film Festival Blog, Ultimate Disney and the KOFFIA program. Richard has also written and taken photos for FasterLouder, and was a regular contributor to AtTheCinema. In 2011, Richard was a Publicity Assistant on KOFFIA, helping to launch their first official blog as the KOFFIA Blog Editor. In 2012, Richard was a member of the jury for the KOFFIA Short Film Competition.

Richard is available for opinion pieces on radio and other media, having also appeared on ABC Local and Eagle FM. He has previously been on the Geek Actually podcast network as the co-host of three shows: Film Actually, Behind the Panels and Podcast Pillowfort.

PETER GEORGE

11/8/2019

PETER GEORGE

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Peter is a Melbourne based Producer, Writer, Interviewer and Script Editor.
His major credits include the award winning documentaries ORIGINAL SCHTICK, SCHTICK HAPPENS, THE DREAM OF LOVE & THE TRIANGLE WARS. Major fiction credits include ABSENCE and WILLIAM. ORIGINAL SCHTICK won 2 AFI awards and the prestigious Rouben Mamoulian Award at the Sydney Film Festival. Both ORIGINAL SCHTICKand WILLIAM were invited to screen at the Sundance Film Festival and all of his films have traveled widely around the globe.

His latest documentary THE TRIANGLE WARS which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival as part of the MIFF Premiere Fund, recently won best Australian documentary at the inaugural Antenna International Documentary Festival.

In 2014 Peter collaborated with Thomas Baricevic on the short film HOPE CITY, which premiered at the 31st Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin, and has gone on to screen at Flickerfest and the St Kilda Film Festivals in Australia. Peter is currently serving as Head of Film & Television at JMC Academy – Melbourne.

JARRET GAHAN

11/8/2019

JARRET GAHAN

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Jarret is the media manager at Monster Pictures and MonsterFest and co-hosts the FakeShemp.Net podcast with fellow AFCA member Glenn Cochrane.

A university graduate, Jarret has been toiling away in visual storytelling for well over a decade, producing award-winning films, television series, web-series, music videos and supplemental features for home entertainment releases.

In addition to production, Jarret has worked in entertainment journalism and marketing across a combination of the home entertainment, theatrical and video game industries for the past twenty years.

His passion from infancy has been cinema, christened on VHS, his education started early with his first filmic memories being awash of exploding heads, flying spheres and fallen AT ATs.

GLEN FALKENSTEIN

11/8/2019

GLEN FALKENTSTEIN

Glen is a film critic and editor based in Sydney. He writes for a number of publications including Falkenscreen and Artshub, produces Film Fight Club on 2SER, can be heard on ABC and is the founder of Festevez.com.

Film Fight Club | 2ser 107.3 | Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans & Virat Nehru

JAN EPSTEIN

11/8/2019

JAN EPSTEIN

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Jan has been writing and broadcasting on film since 1989, and has contributed articles to magazines, newspapers, and books such as Cinema Papers, Compass Theological Quarterly, The Australian Jewish News, The Age, The Australian, The Oxford Companion to Australian Film 1978 – 1994, and the Encyclopedia of British Film.

She broadcasts on ABC radio through network local radio and in 2000 co-wrote/produced for ABC television Selling Dreams: Australians at Cannes, a 30 minute documentary on the Cannes Film Festival, which she has been attending since 1991.

Jan is an associate member of the World Catholic Association for Communication (SIGNIS), and a member of the Australian Catholic Film Office. A Reform Jew, she has sat on ecumenical film juries in Australia since 1993, and represented SIGNIS on the ecumenical jury at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2003.