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Project
Director:
Enda Murray has 21 years experience in community arts, media activism and political
filmmaking and has worked in Ireland, England, USA, Europe and Australia. Educated
at Trinity College Dublin and St. Martin's School of Art in London, he has produced
award winning drama and documentary which has screened on ABC and SBS and the
international festival circuit. | | Associate
Producer:
Cinzia Guaraldi has worked in the fields of education, community development and
community cultural development for the past 25 years. She has worked as a Multicultural
Arts Officer for both the Liverpool and Blacktown Migrant Resource Centres, as
Cultural Worker and Film Festival Administrator for Penrith’s Foundation
for Creative Enterprise and as Manager for the Western Sydney visual arts organisation,
Garage Graphix Inc. She presently works as Cultural Officer at Holroyd City Council.
More recently Cinzia has been involved in film and television work producing numerous
short films, a training video in CCD for artists and a 30 minute documentary "Always
a Visitor" for SBSTV. She has also worked on the Australian feature film
"La Spagnola". | | Dramaturg:
TJ Eckleberg has been a performer, director, educator and musician for
the past fifteen years, working across disciplines and principally in the south-west
of Sydney. As a teacher at Birrong Boys' High School he established Drama as a
subject and was artistic director / coordinator of the massive site specific events
held at the school 'Risk it for the biscuit' and 'Survivor 3001' multi-media interdisciplinary
projects inspired by his work with Welfare State International. His debut album
was 2SER feature album, and he has just released his third cd illumineon having
returned from London (where he taught Drama) and New York in 2002. He has designed
sound for shows at Shopfront Theatre for Young People, The Performance Space and
several short films. He is currently a tutor at Shopfront Theatre and has recently
finished performing with Urban Theatre Projects in Mechanix. | | Script
Development: Patrick Abboud is an interdisciplinary Artist and
Artsworker. Across the mediums of video, sound and performance, his work to date
has explored notions of home, belonging and the politics of cultural identity.
Abboud has created video projection for theatre sets, site-specific sound and
video installation and facilitated a number of community arts projects. Recent
works include 4DA –CARZ, a major outdoor sound installation at the Powerhouse
Museum, in collaboration with Sydney street car enthusiasts. And, Heartland, a
theatre project focused around identity and landscape, for which he created video
projections. Abboud is currently working on a sound and video installation for
the [i remember 1948] exhibition at The Performance Space, due to open May 2003.
He also currently produces and presents the arts program, Alchemy Untitled, broadcast
around Australia on SBS radio [97.7FM]. Abboud aims to continue working with diverse
communities to explore new ways of achieving social justice and equality through
the arts.
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Assistant: Lamia
Dabboussy is a skilled communicator and has produced video and multimedia projects
with her company, Biscuit Media. She has a BA in Media and Communications and
has taught web-design at UNSW. Lamia also worked in media research at Sydney University
and is currently in Media and Public Affairs. | | | Claudia
Chidiac:
My
practice is a reflection of what has and does exist in my environment. My environment
is where Arabic radio 2ME meets Mix 106.5; where tabouli and hommos meet fish
and chips; it is a place where hospitality towards your neighbours is a must meets
Australian government rejecting people in need and of colour, it is a place where
people of middle eastern appearance are held responsible for ethnic violence.
This has been the source for my practice. Drawing upon the traditional aspects
from my Arabic culture as well as western culture, I use elements such as dance,
music, food, religion, western icons and imagery to capture a performance practice
that questions, challenges, and deconstructs perceptions and misconceptions of
cultural stereotypes and notions of identity.
| | Web
Creator: Melissa Cooper has been creating
interactive multimedia for over five years. Over the past two years she has been
freelancing with a particular focus on the community and arts industries. | | Videographer:
Canadian-born Brian Rapsey is an experienced documentary filmmaker. His
films have screened on national television and at several national and international
festivals. He holds a BA from the University of Western Australia and a Post-Graduate
Degree in Film Production from the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film
and Television. He works as the Regional Content Manager and Online Editor at
FLY, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s digital youth channel. | | Online
consultant: Monique Potts has worked in online development for 10 years
with a background in youth work and creative media production. From 1999 to 2002,
she worked for the Open Training Education Network (OTEN) co-ordinating production
of online learning and multimedia products. She is now the Community Development
Producer at ABC New Media where she co-ordinates the development of interactive
and community development features for ABC Online and digital media services.
Monique is currently studying an MA in New Media with University of NSW. | | |
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