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Anna Kaplan is head of production and impact at Regen Studios. She has worked extensively in production and distribution in the UK and Australia, including in-house roles at BBC Documentaries, ITV Factual, Granada Productions, VicScreen and Madman. In 2020 Anna co-founded Regen Studios with Damon Gameau to focus on screen storytelling that inspires and activates audiences. Their production Regenerating Australia was released in early 2022 in partnership with WWF-Australia. In 2019 Anna received the Natalie Miller Fellowship to research best-practice in sustainable screen production. She is a Co-founder and Co-Chair of Sustainable Screens Australia, an industry-led organisation that is addressing the pressing need to reduce the collective environmental impact of screen production in Australia.

George McClements is a designer dedicated to delivering bespoke projects with a sustainable focus. Her approach is founded in her time as a screen producer where she worked with most major Australian broadcast networks, producing projects that uniquely captured Australian audiences. With production companies including Princess Pictures, Roving Enterprises, CornerBox and Renegade she helped deliver a diverse slate of projects from Summer Heights High to Skithouse. Georgina also worked on building the next generation of screen professionals as a lecturer in Screen Production and Entertainment Business. She is the owner and creative director of George Garden Studio delivering beautiful, sustainable landscape designs.

Jeni Thornley is a documentary filmmaker, writer and film valuer. Her poetic essay documentaries: Maidens (1978), collaborative feature film and Penguin book, For Love or Money: a history of women and work in Australia (1983), To the Other Shore (1996), Island Home Country (2008) and Memory Film: a filmmaker’s diary are landmark films in Australian independent and feminist cinema, widely distributed and also broadcast on ABC TV and SBS. Her films are available via beamafilm, Ronin Films, Anandi Films. Memory Film will be available via Antidote Films later in 2024.

Janice Loreck is a senior lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research and teaching centres on women’s cinema, Australian screen history, and experimental filmmaking. Her writing on women and cinema has been published in Australian Humanities Review, Feminist Media Studies and Australian Feminist Studies. She is also an organiser of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival.

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