Nick Hallam

Director

Nick has over 20 years professional experience working in the film and television industry and presently works as a Director or Photography and Camera Operator. Nick has DP’d over 25 shorts, two low budget feature films, TV Commercials, corporate videos, documentaries, dramas, broadcast tv and web series.  Most recently Nick was DOP both seasons of the award winning series “Girl Friday” along with several comedy series pilots in 2010, including a spin off for the Channel 10 police drama RUSH. He directed the comedy series pilot for “Three Day Growth” along with the “Welcome to the Cosmos” pilot episode. (Portfolio site)

Vanessa Burt

Writer/Producer

Vanessa is a screenwriter, producer and qualified lawyer who began her media career in advertising working on fashion TVCs, print ads and catalogues before moving into film distribution where she worked for Buena Vista International for 8 years.  In 2005 she produced the short “Three Months at Sea” financed by the AFC, which won a Highly Commended Award at Flickerfest in 2006 and was short-listed for Cannes selection.  Vanessa wrote and directed seasons 1 & 2 of the award-winning online series “Girl Friday” and has a number of creative projects in development while she continues to work freelance producing and freelance copywriting.

Studio Ish

Studio Ish is a hybrid studio that combines the best in TV production, technology and publishing with the insight, skills and knowhow to deeply engage with audiences wherever they are. Ish brings together award winning creative and technical talent to deliver quality content to digital platforms, including broadcast, online and mobile.

Ish Team

Debra Allanson, Karla Burt, Kylie Robertson

Kelly Lee Myers

Visual Effects Supervisor – Pilot Episode

Kelly Lee Myers, (aka “Kat”) is a VFX artist and CG Supervisor with a specialty in space-themed visual effects. Based in Canada, his extensive credits in TV and feature film over the past two decades include Stargate:SG1, Atlantis; Battlestar Galactica Seasons I-2; White Chicks (Warner Bros); Jerusalem Countdown (Sony), various indie films, the Cosmos pilot and most recently lead VFX artist in Tampere, Finland on the feature Iron Sky. Kelly was also a part of the team that won an Emmy and a Peabody for their outstanding VFX work on Battlestar Galactica.

Craig Barden

ACS – Director of Photography – Pilot Episode

Australian cinematographer, Craig Barden ACS, was responsible for creating the first visual template for the highly successful science fiction series, Farscape (Pilot & Season 1). His work on the series enabled him to develop extensive greenscreen and special effects lighting skills, whilst catering to the demands of prosthetics and animatronics. He is experienced in a broad range of genres including adult drama series (City Homicide, Last Man Standing, Crash Burn, Good Guys Bad Guys), telemovies (Halifax FP), mini series (Bootleg, Snowy), children’s television (Round The Twist, Ocean Girl), music videos and short films. He has won various Australian Cinematographer’s Society awards including Gold Awards for episodes of Farscape and Halifax FP. He was also nominated for an AFI award for Cinematography (Bootleg mini series).

Wicked of Oz Studios

Effects Make-up / Sets – Pilot Episode

Wicked of Oz is an award winning special effects studio established by Justin Dix to cater for the ever expanding film industry in Australia. Justin and his Wicked crew have created award winning prosthetic makeup effects, props, miniatures, animatronic characters and set pieces for the feature films, television and exhibition industry.

Justin has worked with respected directors such as George Lucas and Roger Donaldson, re-creating iconic robots R2-D2 and C3PO for STAR WARS Episode 2 & 3 and 1960’s Trinidad for the UK production “The Bank Job”. Wicked of Oz has also now established itself amongst a new breed of directors such as Greg McLean of “Wolf Creek” and Jamie Blanks of “Urban Legend”.

Known for injecting his enthusiasm into each and every project, Justin has lead his talented and professional team to be recognized internationally, being awarded ‘Best Special Effects Make-Up’ for their work on Jamie Blank’s Storm Warning.  This set a new benchmark for effects work in Australia. (Wicked of Oz website)

Paul Houseman

Original Music – Pilot Episode

Inspired by the works of Hollywood heavyweight composers such as Hans Zimmer and Alan Silvestri, Paul has been composing original music for the past 13 years. His enthusiasm and full orchestral sound has led him to work on many short films, video game scores, documentaries and several feature film projects. With an appreciation for action/adventure style film music, Paul has created an extensive customised sample library, along with numerous commercial sample libraries to create a full orchestral signature sound, acclaimed by leading industry professionals. Paul hopes to bring together a soundtrack that is a return to the thematic adventurous spirit that filled many film scores of the 1980s/90s, but is sadly absent in more modern film scores of today. (Paul Houseman music page)