Richard Jones

A former Australian Broadcasting Corporation cinematographer and journalist, Richard is an independent filmmaker and teacher. He has won about $7 million in funding achieved through competitive grant schemes and commercial tenders. Richard has made 34 publicly financed film, video and interactive programs as a Writer, Producer and/or Director, primarily in the fields of social justice, health and wellbeing, and education. His productions have garnered national and international awards and accolades.

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Daniel Elliott

Daniel Elliott

Creative Practice: 

Animation // Illustration // Video Production // Game Development // Photography // Creative Workshops

Artist Statement:

Daniel Elliott is a highly experienced Australian animator, photographer, and filmmaker with over 20 years of industry experience. He has worked in a variety of fields, including online marketing, television/streaming, and music video production, with the proceeds of this work being used to self-financed art, such as short films, comics, and independent game development. Daniel’s passion for art has taken his skill set and ideas around Australia as well as overseas.

In 2007, Daniel founded Visitors From Dreams, a production house that specializes in creating video content for advertising and television, as well as original short-form media and interactive entertainment. Throughout his career, Daniel has had the opportunity to work on advertising and marketing campaigns for brands such as Volkswagen, Coca-Cola, and Google, while also collaborating on and directing visual effects sequences in animated TV series for streaming services like Netflix. Daniel’s work in all mediums is known for its tactile nature, often utilizing tools such as vintage camera lenses and post-production effects like film grain to try and remove any and all digital sheen. He holds a core belief that imperfections are the key to creating work that feels entirely human in an increasingly digital age.

Growing up in the arts hub that is The Northern Rivers of NSW (currently residing in Armidale, New England, NSW), Daniel has been surrounded by creative media and the arts for the entirety of his life. However, without access to much in the way of arts education, he is entirely self-taught in all mediums. This has resulted in a melting pot of influences, from photographic styles such as Street Photography, more commonly associated with urban and city centers, to the marriage of visuals and music by filmmakers like Alby Falzon and David Elfick. Even 70s and 80s BBC animation from the UK, with its generally low budgets and herky-jerky appearance, plays a large role in his creative process thanks to its constant airtime on the ABC during his childhood. Daniel mixes these influencers and many more while striving to create media that is not just stereotypically Australian, but at its core is a unique reflection of Regional Australia and its people.

Recognition : 

Festival Screening
The Client Is Always Right - Setting Sun Film Festival


CONTACT:
Daniel Elliott

Phone: 0407 079 064

Email: visitorsfromdreams@gmail.com

Website: https://visitorsfromdreams.com/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/visitorsfromdreams/

Vimeo: Visitors From Dreams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-elliott-41a26b28/

Helena Pastor

Helena Pastor

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Literature and Music

ARTIST STATEMENT

Helena Pastor is a regional writer living on Anaiwan Country in Armidale, NSW. Through memoir and fiction, she aims to encourage discussion around topics close to her heart including all stages of motherhood, the aftershocks of war, and growing up in an immigrant family. Her writing has attracted two Australian Society of Authors’ Mentorships, along with residencies at Varuna Writers’ House, Bundanon, Booranga and KSP Writers’ Centres, The Gunyah, and a 2021 Bush Retreat for Eco-Writers (BREW) Residency at Tamborine Mountain. She has also completed two postgraduate degrees on the transformative possibilities of Creative Nonfiction writing. Helena’s first book, Wild Boys: A Parent’s Story of Tough Love (UQP, 2015) is an intimate insight into reconnecting troubled teenagers with their families and communities. She is also a songwriter and lyricist, working in the narrative tradition of songwriting and collaborating with composer Christopher Purcell. They are currently recording their catalogue of songs for an Arts project called ‘Stories in Song’ (funded by Arts North West and Regional Arts NSW).

Listen to Helena Pastor online via Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/pastor_purcell

 

CONTACT

helenapastor2@gmail.com

 



James Warren

James Warren

CREATIVE PRACTICE

writing, visual art and performance

ARTIST STATEMENT

James Arthur Warren aka Thundercloud Repairian is creator and director of the Australian Poetry Hall of Fame in Guyra. James has over 15 years experience as a portrait artist and is a prolific poet.

As Thundercloud, he’s been a finalist in the Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup amd placed third in the 2019 Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Competition. He has a number of self published poetry and children’s books and you can catch him most days at the Australian Poetry Hall of Fame in Guyra.

REGOGNITION

Bachelor of Science in Australian Environmental Studies

Master of TESOL

Finalist 2017 Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup

3rd 2019 Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Competition

 

CONTACT

1english1@gmail.com
0423 478 656