The current production team and links to their individual bios. This is one very talented team. Just wait until you see the film!

Jai Koutrae
Lead Actor

David Di Muro
Writer/Director

Dan Balcaban
Producer

Carl Robertson A.C.S.
Director of Photography

Marc Barold
Production Designer

Basil Hogios
Composer, Head of Music

Savannah Purcell
Wardrobe, Costume Designer

Amelia Gebler
Wardrobe, Costume Designer

Danny Janevski
Visual FX Supervisor

Kate McKee
Writer, Script Supervisor

Jai Koutrae is an Australian actor who garnered fame for his role as Nathan Chapel in ‘Death's Requiem’, for which he received an Australian Screen Actors Guild Award. Koutrae has starred in many other successful short and feature films including ‘Mortal Fools’. He has also appeared in many television series including ‘McLeod's Daughters’, ‘All Saints’ and ‘Home and Away’. He has starred in four feature films, most recently in the US thriller ‘Dark Island’. Working in Los Angeles, he has raised his profile through his lead role in the TNT sleeper hit ‘Lucky Chance’ - and is now filming its second season. Jai has a few surprise features coming up which will ensure he is a household name very soon, including a lead role opposite Toni Collette in Scarb Girl Asylum.

Danny is a seasoned visual effects guru. He has worked for powerhouse Industrial Light and Magic and is current freelancing for Animal Logic. Experienced in all facets of visual effects, he has worked on major motion pictures including ‘Transformers’, ‘Rush Hour 3’, ‘Iron Man’, ‘Star Trek’, ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’, ‘Surrogates’ and ‘Cubik’.

Amelia has a Graduate Diploma of Costume Design from AFTRS, Bachelor of Arts in Design - Fashion and Textiles, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications - Social Enquiry from UTS. She specialises in costume design, buying, sewing, various forms of construction, styling, assisting and supervision. Amelia has been involved in more than 25 productions on television, commercials, video clips and films. A couple of her films have been nominated for best short at the AFI awards. One of the films, “Four”, took the AFI best short film prize in 2007.

Savannah is one half of the Purcell sisters who setup the fashion label Hallican Boodie. She has established herself as a world-wide name, with her designs being worn by celebrities such as Kate Bosworth, Paris Hilton, Kimberly Stewart, Heidi Middleton, Deni Hines, Jennifer Hawkins and Tammin Sursok. Having her own label set up allows her to quickly create and produce quality apparel and teaming up with Amelia Gebler on this production will enable her to cross over into the film world.

Basil is an award-winning composer and sound designer who has worked in literary and musical theatre, dance and devised performance, film and installation. He has collaborated with some of Australia’s theatre greats on mainstage shows for Sydney Theatre Co, Melbourne Theatre Co, Company B, Bell Shakespeare, and Griffin. He received the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Score for the critically acclaimed ‘Three Furies’, (Sydney, Auckland, Perth and Adelaide Arts Festivals), directed by Jim Sharman and written by Stephen Sewell. He also composed and conducted live music for ‘Dream Masons’, a devised outdoor theatrical spectacle which opened Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island. For the screen, he composed the score for the feature film ‘Romulus My Father’,for which he was nominated for an AFI and FCCA Award. A graduate of the AFTRS Screen Composing course, his orchestral score for the devised movement film ‘SUB’- was nominated for an APRA/AGSC award for Best Score for a Short Film and won the prestigious Directors Choice Gold Medal at the Park City Film Music Festival.

Marc Barold has graduated from AFTRS in Art Direction and with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNSW. Marc has been the production designer on 40+ commercials for major brands world-wide. He has also designed numerous sets and props, including for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Cirque du Soleil, New York Fashion Week and Euro Disney. He has taken the top gong for Sculptures by the Sea, two MTV best video clip awards, Dance Music Awards best video clip and an ARIA Best Music Clip award. His involvement in feature films includes ‘Sexy Beast’, ‘Dark City’, ‘Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones’, ‘West’, ‘Newcastle’ and ‘The Nothing Men’.