Director - Geoff Hitchins

Geoff Hitchins has been working as a film editor for over a decade, with experience in his early career also including camera assistant work on student films, cinematography
for several low budget productions, and two years as junior producer for an advertising agency. He made the transition to editing drama with the AFI award winning childrens’
television show Eugenie Sandler PI. In addition to many short films, Geoff edited the 50 minute telemovies The Glenmoore Job and Roy Hollsdotter Live – the latter earning him an AFI Award nomination in 2003.

In 2006 Geoff edited the feature film Noise, which was invited to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Ultimately Noise was nominated for an AFI Award for Editing in 2007, as well as winning Best Editing from the IF Awards and the Film Critics Circle Awards. More recent work has included the horror film Storm Warning (co-edited with director Jamie Blanks) the feature film The Tumbler, and Lowdown, a television comedy pilot.

Producer - Chris Kamen

Chris is one of Melbourne's most exciting young emerging producers. Chris pays his rent by producing commercials for his director brother Matt at The Guild (www.guildfilm.com) and has also been gaining valuable experience by producing various music videos and short films for some of Melbourne’s best young directorial talent. During a Film Victoria funded producer’s attachment in 2006, Chris was mentored by producers Ann Darrouzet and Pete Ford on the set of indie-horror feature STORM WARNING (www.stormwarningmovie.com). Most recently Chris has produced the short film DIRECTIONS for Kasimir Burgess. Previously Chris produced the 2007 Raindance Trailer LONE RIDER which Kasmir wrote and directed along with friend and collaborator Edwin McGill (www.edwinmcgill.com) (who Chris also happens to occasionally produce for).

You can view some of Chris’ work at: www.kamen.com.au