DirecteD by: rob carlton & alex Weinress

Premieres thursday 19th march at 9.30Pmencore screeninGs Friday 10.30Pm & saturday 5.30Pm

Premieres thursday 19th march at 9.30Pm

encore screeninGs Friday 10.30Pm & saturday 5.30Pm

www.movieextra.tv/chandonSEASON 2

Chandon Pictures premiered exclusively on MOVIE EXTRA in 2007 to wide critical acclaim. The show was nominated for Best Television Comedy Series at the L’Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards, and Rob Carlton was nominated for Best Performance in a Comedy Television Series for his role as Tom Chandon.

This popular comedy show returns in 2009 with a much anticipated second season.

The series follows the misadventures of Tom Chandon (Rob Carlton) and his fledgling video production company Chandon Pictures.

Tom’s portfolio doesn’t extend much beyond the odd wedding video or kid’s birthday party, but he is a dreamer and along with his long suffering crew, is determined to make it as a serious ‘documenteur’.

In Chandon’s second season, Tom returns somewhat defeated from a brief stint in Hollywood. The Chandon house has been sold, his brother Carmichael has taken a job in Singapore and Chandon Pictures have opened up new headquarters. Tom’s cousin Larraby (Charlie Garber) moves in, taking over the role of business manager. At first Tom, the once overzealous filmmaker and driving force behind the team, seems to have lost his special touch. But with some coaxing from his enthusiastic crew, he might just rediscover the great ‘documenteur’ within.

Returning to the team in Season 2 are loyal cameraman Nick (Darren Gileshenan) and pragmatic ‘Executive Producer’ Lucy (Rebecca Massey), while Charlie Garber also joins the show as Tom’s business savvy cousin, Larraby Chandon.

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The team has been asked to film a wedding video - with a twist. Dion (Matt Zeremes) and Kelly (Catherine Moore) are renewing their vows to include a ‘swingers’ clause.

Though they are happily married, Dion and Kelly want to enjoy the freedom of ‘The Lifestyle’: an alternative life that encourages them to explore relationships with other partners. The Chandon team, of course, are ready to capture all the action. Larraby in particular is curious, and decides to tag along on the shoot for some experience behind the camera.

With seasoned swingers Krystal (Claire Bowan) and Benji (David James) on hand for advice, they all head off for Dion and Kelly’s first official swingers party. But they’re about to discover an important lesson in marriage: that three (…or even four or five) really is a crowd!

ShOrt SyNOpSiSThe team have been asked to film an unusual wedding for a couple who are renewing their vows to include a ‘swingers’ clause. Dion (Matt Zeremes) and Kelly (Catherine Moore) are keen to explore the freedom of ‘The Lifestyle’ and the Chandon team are ready to capture all the action. But they’re about to discover an important lesson in marriage: that three (…or even four or five) really is a crowd!

GuESt StArriNG Matt Zeremes (Dion), Catherine Moore (Kelly), roy Billing (Celebrant), David James (Benji), Clare Bowan (Krystal), Matt Moore (Jodee), Josh Lawson (Carmichael)

ep 1: the lifestyle

Lucy’s past comes back to haunt her when her father Arty (Doug Scroope) shows up unexpectedly at the Chandon house. He has decided to sell his greyhound farm, and asks Chandon Pictures to film the TV ‘advertorial’.

Lucy is mortified as the rest of the team ridicule her ‘bogan’ family, but Tom is determined to turn this story into a great documentary. He’s concerned Lucy’s too close to the topic and asks her to back off, but she won’t compromise the integrity of her family, and reluctantly agrees to be involved.

The crew head to the farm where Lucy grew up, enthusiastic and ready to film the secrets to great greyhound training. But Lucy must face some long suppressed secrets of her own, in particular the revelation of an ex-flame named Boysie (Don Hany), a larrikin farm hand with an unusual hobby.

ShOrt SyNOpSiSLucy’s past comes back to haunt her when her father Arty (Doug Scroope) shows up unexpectedly at the Chandon house. He’s decided to sell his greyhound farm, and asks Chandon Pictures to film the TV ‘advertorial’. The crew head to the farm where Lucy grew up, enthusiastic and ready to film the secrets to great greyhound training. But Lucy must face some secrets of her own, in particular the revelation of an ex-flame named Boysie (Don Hany), a larrikin farmhand with an unusual hobby.

GuESt StArriNGDan hany (Boysie), Doug Scroope (Arty), Barbara Angell (Margs)

ep 2: run bitch run

An old school friend of Lucy’s, Angelique (Kelly Butler), ropes Lucy into a scheme to sell a range of “hydreaux cosmetics”. When the rest of the team are enlisted to shoot a training video, they find themselves caught up in the scheme too. But Angelique is an expert manipulator and Lucy soon finds herself in way over her head.

Meanwhile, now that Nick has become a Dad to twins, Larraby steps in to help out behind-the-scenes with the Chandon crew. Nick feels threatened and the tension mounts, but Tom is too busy flirting with a pretty young hydreaux cosmetic agent named Sarah (Laura Brent) to notice the jealousy creeping into his team.

ShOrt SyNOpSiS An old school friend of Lucy’s, Angelique (Kelly Butler), ropes Lucy into a scheme to sell a range of “hydreaux cosmetics”. When the rest of the team are enlisted to shoot a training video, they find themselves caught up in the scheme too. But Angelique is an expert manipulator and Lucy soon finds herself in way over her head.

GuESt StArriNGKelly Butler (Angelique), Laura Brent (Sarah)

ep 3: not a Pyramid

Chandon Pictures has been asked to shoot a real estate ‘virtual tour’ for a wealthy Sydney couple. Basil (Marshall Napier), a famous Sydney gynaecologist, is selling the luxurious home he shares with his wife Lorelei (Lynette Curran).

Tom sees the opportunity to make more of this project by telling the story behind the man in a doco titled Confessions of a Gynaecologist. But the ‘perfect life’ of this successful couple is not all it appears to be on the surface, and this might turn out to be Chandon Pictures’ most explosive documentary yet.

Back at the Chandon office, there is drama behind the scenes as well: Tom has finally found his mojo. Inspired by a beautiful young woman, he wants to make a major motion picture; all he needs is a script! Nick is feeling increasingly threatened by Larraby, who feels he needs to assert his place

in the team. Tom’s relationship with Sarah is also becoming more serious, a further cause of tension in the Chandon team.

ShOrt SyNOpSiSChandon Pictures has been asked to shoot a real estate ‘virtual tour’ for a wealthy Sydney couple. Basil (Marshall Napier), a famous Sydney gynaecologist, is selling the luxurious home he shares with his wife Lorelei (Lynette Curran). The ‘perfect life’ of this successful couple is not all it appears to be on the surface, and this might turn out to be Chandon Pictures’ most explosive documentary yet.

GuESt StArriNGMarshall Napier (Basil), Lynette Curran (Lorelei)

ep 4: the man with the Dancing Fingers

Megan (Helen Dallimore) doesn’t appear to be your usual desperate and dateless loser, but she’s looking for the right partner and isn’t afraid to use a dating service to help her find that person. She enlists the help of an executive companion service specialising in corporate matchmaking: “Executive Connections: The Business of Love”.

When the service sends the Chandon crew to film her profile video, Megan and Tom don’t exactly hit it off. The first attempt at a profile video attracts the wrong kind of men, and she insists on a re-shoot. Tom’s more interested in filming her story as a documentary and in the process, it seems Megan is unexpectedly falling for Tom.

Meanwhile both Tom and Lucy seem to be caught up in some love dilemmas of their own.

ShOrt SyNOpSiS Megan (Helen Dallimore) enlists the help of an executive companion service who specialise in corporate matchmaking: “Executive Connections: The Business of Love”. When the service sends the Chandon crew to film her profile video, Tom’s more interested in filming her story as a documentary. In the process, it seems Megan is unexpectedly falling for Tom.

GuESt StArriNGhelen Dallimore (Megan), russell Kiefel (Warwick), Elaine hudson (Enrollment Officer), Laura Brent (Sarah)

ep 5: she’s 22

Larraby’s colleague Jodee (Matt Moore) asks Tom to film a video for his trendy nightclub, Pack, and it seems this straight-laced businessman has a secret “other” life. By day he is a conservative banker – on the side he runs one of the hottest clubs in town.

The Chandon team see this as an opportunity to make a video with “edge”, but they are distracted on the job. Tom has fallen into a depression over the demise of his relationship with Sarah (Laura Brent), and his lack of inspiration to write his own script. And Lucy is desperate to recruit her new boyfriend Warwick (Russell Kiefel) to the team.

ShOrt SyNOpSiSLarraby’s colleague Jodee (Matt Moore) asks Tom to film a video for his trendy nightclub, Pack - by day he is a conservative banker – on the side he runs one of the hottest nightclubs in town. The Chandon team see this as an opportunity to make a video with “edge”, but they are distracted on the job.

GuESt StArriNGMatt Moore (Jodee), Bruiser (teo Gebert), Laura Brent (Sarah), russell Kiefel (Warwick), Jonathan Dutto (harley)

ep 6: Pack

Chandon Pictures has been recruited to film training sessions for an over enthusiastic motivational consultant. Derek (Lachy Hulme) is hosting seminars to improve the presentation skills of a group of deadbeat salespeople needing inspiration. His techniques go down like a lead balloon, but Tom steps in to save the day.

Meanwhile, Larraby has unexpectedly written a film script in just one weekend and the Chandon crew are ready to dive in and make a feature film. The only problem is none of them have read it!

And Nick drops a bombshell – could he really be leaving Chandon Pictures for good?

ShOrt SyNOpSiSChandon Pictures has been recruited to film training sessions for Derek (Lachy Hulme), an over enthusiastic motivational consultant. Meanwhile Larraby completes a feature film script and Nick drops a bombshell.

GuESt StArriNGLachy hulme (Derek), Chris Burke (Malcolm), rhonda Doyle (Melanie), russell Kiefel (Warwick), Monique Dykstra (trace), Andrew ryan (Simon)

ep 7: a script is Written

The Chandon team have scored a huge coup – their first rock video! Rockstar Tracks Wilcox (Dan Wyllie) is finally going solo from his band and he needs an A-list team to shoot his video, “You Wanna Give”.

Chandon Pictures set about making a spectacular rock video for Tracks and his manager Scotty (Damon Herriman). In the process, they soon find themselves being dragged into the debaucherous rock star lifestyle. Carmichael (Josh Lawson) returns to find the house, and the team, in total disarray.

Could this spell the end for Chandon Pictures - or are all their dreams finally about to be realised?

ShOrt SyNOpSiSRockstar Tracks Wilcox (Dan Wyllie) needs an A-list team to shoot his first video, “You Wanna Give”. Chandon Pictures set about making a spectacular video, and soon find themselves being dragged into the debaucherous rock star lifestyle. Carmichael (Josh Lawson) returns to find the house, and the team, in total disarray. Could this spell the end for Chandon Pictures?

GuESt StArriNGDan Wyllie (tracks), Damon herriman (Scotty), Josh Lawson (Carmichael), russell Kiefel (Warwick)

ep 8: rock$tar - season Final

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Director, writer, producer and actor, Rob Carlton, started developing Chandon Pictures over ten years ago. He shot a 48 minute show, which Rob concedes wasn’t very good, but inspired the character of Tom Chandon.

Rob then began developing the idea of this character and the world around the desperate documentary maker. Over the next three years Rob bought in other key development writers Russell Smyth and Alex Weinress, who would also be co-director on the project.

Alex’s background echoed the world of Tom’s in some ways which created immediate appeal for Alex. He says, “The project was about a documentary filmmaker who had made one documentary and thought he was this great filmmaker but who made wedding videos to survive, and that is basically what I was doing at the time!”

After initial rejection of the idea from some networks, Rob and Alex decided to create a variation of the show for

chandon Pictures the beginning

Tropfest: Carmichael and Shane, about a father raising twins by favouring one over the other. They utilised Alex’s “verite doc style to capture the story. The films were due on the Thursday; we shot it on the Saturday morning - there was no script but we knew the story”, explains Rob.

Carmichael and Shane got accepted in to the Top 16, and went on to win Best Film, and it was at a Tropfest party that Rob met Peter Jenetsky from Movie Network Channels.

Peter Jenetsky, General Manager, Marketing & Content Strategy for Movie Network Channels, acts as Executive in Charge of Production on the project. He credits Rob’s comedic talent and his success with Tropfest in making the development deal a feasible one.

He says, “Both Rob and Alex can thank John Polson and Tropfest for the opportunity to meet and pitch to executives from Movie Network Channels, resulting in finding a suitable home for Chandon Pictures on our MOVIE EXTRA

channel – which is unique in that it seeks out edgy, original and provocative series.

Our ongoing relationship with Tropfest and its film and television production arm, the Tropfest Feature Program, is based around a shared ambition of unearthing and providing opportunity to emerging local film and television writers, producers, actors, directors and technicians.”

Casting the principal actors that make up the team is pivotal to the show, and the key cast returns in Season 2. Tom Chandon helms Chandon Pictures with his trusted and loyal staff cinematographer, Nick Brenner (Darren Gilshenan) and producer, Lucy Canon (Rebecca Massey). Charlie Garber also joins the show in Season 2 as Tom’s cousin and business mentor, Larraby Chandon.

Rob had worked with Darren previously in a role reversal, when Darren had cast Rob in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. As Darren recalls then, “we forged a really strong relationship based on a mutual kind of understanding where comedy was at and teaching each other.” Darren’s character Nick was in fact drawn from something Rob had seen Darren do in a theatre production.

Rob also knew Rebecca’s work very well but they had never worked together previously. Rebecca said her involvement was a simple offer, “I was writing a TV series and asked Rob to come and do a bit of collaboration to see if we could work together. We didn’t end up working together on my project but he asked me to come and shoot this pilot.”

With the exit of Tom’s brother Carmichael (Josh Lawson) in

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Season 2, a new role was also created for Charlie Garber, who Rob thought would be perfect to play Tom’s nervy and naïve younger cousin, Larraby.

According to Rob, “Charlie Garber is a really exciting, new acting talent. He’s one of the funniest creatures I’ve ever seen on stage. He’s quite phenomenal.” Charlie was equally excited to have the opportunity to work with Rob and the rest of the cast, “To get a phone call saying, ‘I’ve got a character in this comedy show that I’d like you to read for,’ is great. Especially having seen you act and maybe put that into how they’ve written the character. These were actors I had seen a lot of, so I was really excited to work with them.”

The guest stars for the episodes are equally as important as the main team, as each guest brings with them not only a new story but also a different dynamic.

As Rob says, “This show is largely built on the calibre of our guesties, and the characters that we ask them to bring to life. The idea of each guest is to put pressure on the leads. So what area of the leads do we want to explore, and how can we get this guest cast to come in and push their buttons?”

Rob is therefore very particular about the casting process and draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience with a variety of Australian film and television actors.

Veteran Australian actor Lynette Curran came in as a guest actor in Season 2 and felt the process was both collaborative and creative, “You’re on your toes, and everybody’s working together. And if something doesn’t suit you then speak up, or forever hold your peace. It’s democratic in that way. There’s the right attitude to it and there’s a fairness and there’s no anger, or the anger’s used in a creative way.”

The unique aspect of filming both Season 1 and Season 2 of Chandon Pictures is that as well as the two production cameras, the character of Nick Brenner is also constantly filming. So Rob, Alex and editor Stafford Wales edit into each episode the fly on the wall footage that Darren takes during filming, creating within the series a kind of documentary ‘feel’. Co-director Alex Weinress also draws on his videographer background to create this feel for the show.

According to Alex, while filming the second season, he and Rob were able to take a lot of their experience from Season 1 on board to improve on their product, “we worked a lot faster, we were able to understand what we were doing and knew the kind of show we were making…and also just not having the brand of ‘first time director.’ We kind of had some credibility from the first season, so it just took a lot of the pressure off.” The production quality is also higher in Season 2, which was shot in HD, achieving what Alex describes as “a whole new look”.

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Line Producer Catherine Durr was a new addition to the team in Season 2, having been recommended to Rob by the Producer of Comedy Inc. She says selecting the crew was crucial, “Rob was very particular about who to include in this production. He probably spoke to me about a year ahead of it even going into pre-production. And he took as much care in selecting everybody else as he did in finding my role.”

She felt the freedom of working for Movie Network Channels allowed a creative working space for the directors and crew that is quite unique, “Once they were across casting and writing, once they were across Rob’s vision, they were actually quite hands off, which is refreshing. So they agreed in principle to the vision, but they don’t have to be there standing over the director’s shoulder or at rushes every night. (Executive Producer) Ted Robinson certainly represents them and so he will view rushes. But on the whole they are very supportive, much more actually than a commercial network.”

She adds that Rob and Alex’s directing style has also developed since Season 1, and they work well together as co-directors, “Rob and Alex are used to working as a team, and they’re used to being business partners and they know how each other thinks…they’re both very generous in letting each other fulfil their creative vision.”

Key cast

rOB DESCriBES tOM iN SEASON 2: “he flies high and low. he’s a passionate guy that can have his optimism pulled from him. i think that’s what makes him compelling. he can be hugely empathetic, he can be hugely supportive, he can be dark and black. and i think we’ve got that in all of us. season 2 picks up, tom has come back from los angeles, clearly there’s been some sort of breakdown. tom comes back from hollywood deflated from that major dream but we still get that great tom passion, what was charming about tom was that he always wanted to do something great while he was alive. about four seconds with a beautiful woman reinspires him to make the great movie.”

Rob Carlton has been a professional actor since he was 14 years old. He is a recognised face in Australia for both comedy and drama in TV, film and theatre.

Rob’s TV credits include roles in All Saints, Fireflies, McLeod’s Daughters and Water Rats.

In 2006, Rob wrote, starred in, co-directed and co-produced the short film Carmichael and Shane, which won Tropfest. Rob also starred in the film How Many Doctors Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb, which won Best Comedy at the festival. He also won Best Actor for his two performances in both films – the first time an actor has appeared in two finalist’s films.

Rob’s play A-Framed, was first produced by his company in 1998 to critical and box office success and has since been produced in Sydney and Melbourne.

In 2008, Rob was nominated at the L’Oréal Paris 2008 AFI Awards for Best Performance in a Television Comedy Series for his role as Tom Chandon in Season 1 of Chandon Pictures.

rob carlton - tom chandon

rEBECCA DESCriBES LuCy iN SEASON 2:“it’s a combination of a really driven person, who is not very smart...she’s really ambitious but doesn’t have such great skills. When we start off, the whole team’s a little bit vulnerable and kind of fragile because tom’s abandoned us to go to hollywood. and lucy, you learn more about her, where she’s from...she finds love...a lot happens to her and it’s been a great adventure.”

Rebecca graduated with an Honours Degree in Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Auckland University, New Zealand. She worked for three months as a lawyer before bursting into tears, leaving at lunch and never returning.

Since moving to Australia, Rebecca has worked extensively with Company B, most recently as Queen Marie in Exit the King starring Geoffrey Rush, and Gertrude in The Underpants. Other credits with Company B include: Macbeth, Cloudstreet, The Small Poppies (Sydney Festival and Dublin Festival productions), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Seagull, WASP and The Alchemist.

Rebecca’s TV credits include All Saints, Stepfather of the Bride, Small Claims, Grass Roots and Bloodsports.

Rebecca has appeared in the feature film Son of the Mask as well as Gary Eck’s short film Final Call and The Black Balloon, a feature starring Toni Collette and Gemma Ward. She recently finished filming Accidents Happen starring Geena Davis and Erik Thomson.

Rebecca was nominated for a Helpmann Award for her role in Steve Martin’s play The Underpants. Rebecca won a Green Room Award for Best Female Performer in the role of Pearl in Stephen Sewell’s play It Just Stopped. Rebecca has recently been nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Supporting Actress in It Just Stopped.

rebecca massey - lucy canon

Graduating from The National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1988, Darren has made 15 appearances with Bell Shakespeare, including Measure For Measure, Wars Of The Roses, The Servant Of Two Masters - for which he received the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play in 2004, The Comedy Of Errors - for which he received a Green Room Award nomination, Henry 4, Henry 5, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming Of The Shrew, Pericles, Twelfth Night and Macbeth. Darren created the movement design for the players in Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He has also conducted student workshops for Bell Shakespeare’s Education Programme. Darren was recently awarded the Gloria Dawn Gloria Payten Scholarship for 2007 and will be heading to England to co-write a one man show based on Shakespeare’s clowns with Christopher Harris from the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Other theatre credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Players and Last Cab To Darwin for Pork Chop Productions; Moby Dick, a Queensland Theatre Company and Marion Street Theatre co-production; A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Botanical Gardens; Alive At Williamstown Pier for Griffin Theatre Company; The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) for Spirit Entertainment; and The Venetian Twins for the 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. Darren was recently seen as Cuddlepie in Neil Armfield’s production of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie for Company B and the Sydney Festival. He is currently rehearsing Not Like Beckett for Northern Rivers Performing Arts. Later this year he will be seen in Bell Shakespeare’s The Government Inspector alongside William Zappa.

Darren’s film and television credits include Idiot Box, Dark City, Swinger (winner Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize), Police Rescue, Full Frontal and Dossa and Joe (BBC/Granada). In 2005, he wrote, co-directed and starred in Derrick, which was launched on the Comedy Channel.

Darren Gilshenan - nick brenner DArrEN DESCriBES NiCK iN SEASON 2:“nick unfortunately has no social skills whatsoever. so he’ll just blurt stuff out without any sense of consequence. but we discovered the best way to do it is with love. in this season nick kind of separates a little bit emotionally. the twins come, he is kind of a father in season 2 and dealing with all that. so the dilemma for my character as the breadwinner, is to find some bread. i think it’s been a really fertile storyline for me.”

ChArLiE DESCriBES LArrABy iN SEASON 2:“larraby’s the straight guy, he’s kind of naive, a little bit innocent, he can be kind of goofy. i guess in some ways the audience might be seeing the other characters through larraby’s eyes...he’s just a young guy who’s a bit serious and sensible and has to deal with people who aren’t. a lot of the comedy is seeing larraby react to what the other characters are doing. initially, he’s looking up to his older cousin because he thinks he’s a filmmaker, realises that might not be the case, and then he himself gets the bug to be a filmmaker. and that takes him to a really interesting place.”

Since embarking on his acting career in productions for the University of Sydney from 2001 – 2003, Charlie Garber has established a reputation as an accomplished young talent in Australian theatre, television and film.

His theatre credits include Julius Caesar for the Sydney Theatre Company (2005); Merchant of Venice for the Bell Shakespeare Company (2006); and Glass Boat and Simply Fancy for small theatre group Pig Island, a creative collaboration with actors Claudia O’Doherty and Nick Coyle (2007 - 2008).

In 2004, Charlie played Phil in the popular Working Dog television production, Russell Coight’s Celebrity Challenge, starring Glenn Robbins. His film work includes Lost Things (2003) and Ghost Rider (2004).

charlie Garber - larraby chandon

Key creW

alex Weinress - co-Director

American born director, producer, writer, cinematographer and editor, Alex Weinress, is an award winning filmmaker. Alex and good friend Rob Carlton won the 1st Prize at the 2006 Tropfest for their short film Carmichael and Shane, the 6 minute black comedy about a single father who has a unique approach to raising his two-year old twin boys. The film has gone on to win the Audience Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival as well as screenings at the Telluride, Tribeca and Seattle Film Festivals.

Alex also produced and directed the critically acclaimed documentary feature, The Last Game. The film premiered at SXSW in 2002, won Best Documentary at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival and received the Special Jury Award at the 2003 Worlfest in Houston.

Kim batterham - DoP

Award winning DOP, Kim Batterham, has more than 20 years experience in the Australian and international film and television industries. Her impressive body of work includes AFI winning documentaries Gumshoe (1992), Watch the Watch (1993) and The Maitland Wonder – Les Darcy (1997), as well as the Emmy nominated children’s television series, Johnson and Friends (1991). Her extensive television credits include the four hour mini-series The Potato Factory, the SBS documentary series First Australians and McLeod’s Daughters on Channel 9. In 2002 she worked on the Peter Weir directed feature Master and Commander, which was nominated for an Oscar® for Cinematography in 2004. Most recently Kim completed work on the upcoming feature film Elise, starring Natalie Imbruglia.

rob carlton - co-Director

heath Watt - executive Producer

Heath has been involved in the Australian film and television production business for over a decade. He spent a considerable period working as a television and film lawyer and business affairs executive both in private practice and in-house, representing both television broadcasters and independent producers. More recently, Heath has held senior executive positions with Australia’s international television network, Australia Network.

catherine Durr - line Producer

Catherine began her career in production management in 1994 at Beyond Productions, where she produced various series for the Nine Network, Discovery Channel and ABC. She then spent several years working at the Seven Network as Production Manager and Production Management Supervisor, Light Entertainment, where her credits included Border Security, The Mole, Auction Squad and Undercover Angels. In 2004 she was contracted to Washington DC by Beyond Productions to produce a makeover series for the Discovery Channel called Garage Takeover. Since then she has been working regularly as a Production Manager for Australian television and her impressive list of credits include Missing Persons Unit, My Restaurant Rules, Australian Idol, Project Greenlight, Ready Steady Cook, Make Me a Supermodel and Deal or No Deal.

russell smyth - script development

Russell is a Creative Director at high profile Sydney advertising agency, the Campaign Palace. Strangely enough, he also spent nine years working as a high school science teacher. He developed his comedy writing skills over that time by writing for Doug Mulray’s Triple M breakfast radio program, later making a successful leap into stand-up comedy and featuring at many of Sydney and Melbourne’s major comedy venues.

ingrid Weir -costume Designer

For the past decade Ingrid has had a varied and creative career, working as a venue Event Designer, Art Director for television commercials, and Costume Designer for theatre, film and television. Her costume designing credits for television include The Potato Factory for Channel Seven as well as Changi, Playschool and The Chaser’s War on Everything for the ABC. She worked as Assistant to the Designer on Gillian Armstrong’s Oscar and Lucinda in 1996, and in 2003 for Art Department Graphic Design on Master and Commander, directed by Peter Weir.

stafford Wales - editor

A graduate of the AFTRS Editing programme, Stafford started out as an Assembly Editor on All Saints. After various television editing work, including Pizza for SBS and JTV for the ABC, and further Assembly Editing on McLeod’s Daughters and Love My Way, he worked as editor on The Surgeon (Dir Matt Saville), and later on McLeod’s Daughters (Dir Steve Jodrell).

ted robinson - executive Producer

Ted Robinson has been involved in Australian television, film and theatre for over three decades. In recent years he has had several satirical comedy series on the ABC (The Glass House, The Side Show etc.) and on free to air commercial TV Good News Week - Network Ten. Ted was also Executive Producer for Chandon Pictures Season 1.

Peter Jenetsky - executive in

charge of Production

With 17 years experience in the media industry, Peter has worked with some of Australia’s largest media organisations, including senior roles with Austereo and The Seven Network, and is now GM of Marketing and Content Strategy for Movie Network Channels. In this role he is responsible for the marketing of the channel brands as well as developing new content opportunities for the channels. In recent years he has expanded the programming to include both scripted series, observational documentary, and entertainment formats such as the filmmaking competition, Project Greenlight, and the television adaptation of the live theatre event, Short & Sweet.

Full cast creDits

tom chanDon ROB CARLTON

nicK brenner DARREN GILSHENAN

lucy canon REBECCA MASSEY

larraby chanDon CHARLIE GARBER

carmichael chanDon JOSH LAWSON

Dion MATT ZEREMES

Kelly CATHERINE MOORE

celebrant ROY BILLING

benJi DAVID JAMES

Krystal CLARE BOWAN

houseWiFe CATHERINE DURR

younG male executive NICK HERNANDEZ

JoDee MATT MOORE

boysie DAN HANY

arty DOUG SCROOPE

marGs BARBARA ANGELL

customer NATASHA CALI

anGelique KELLY BUTLER

sarah LAURA BRENT

Presentation attenDee 1 ANNA ERICKSON

Presentation attenDee 2 KYLIE FRANCIS

Presentation attenDee 3 THERESA HARPER

basil MARSHALL NAPIER

lorelei LYNETTE CURRAN

meGan HELEN DALLIMORE

WarWicK RUSSELL KIEFEL

enrollment oFFice ELAINE HUDSON

caFe Patron 1 KATHY HARWOOD

caFe Patron 2 DIONNE FYVIE

caFe Patron 3 NIKAYLA FYVIE

bruiser TEO GEBERT

harley JONATHAN DUTTO

trevor PAUL WHITE

Female Dancer SHANNON O’SHEA

DereK LACHY HULME

malcolm CHRIS BURKE

melanie RHONDA DOYLE

trace MONIQUE DYKSTRA

simon ANDREW RYAN

tracKs Wilcox DAN WYLLIE

scotty DAMON HERRIMAN

tracK’s Girl REBECCA WOOD

larraby’s Girl SAMANTHA SILVA

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