Meet the team

David Tiley (Editor)
David has written more than 50 documentaries (including the recent Lionel and Do Not Resuscitate, and was script editor for the controversial documentary Ten Conditions of Love) and the feature film (Noise – 2008) “nobody else wanted me for thiry years”. Two (widely separated) stints writing for the CSIRO have given him an uncanny knowledge of agricultural pests, and a lifetime in the industry has given him a practical knowledge of the non-agricultural varieties. He believes that his career might have been hampered by an early decision to drop Peter Greenaway in an English bog, before exposing him to sub-zero temperatures in a very large wind-tunnel. For six years he was the Documentary Program Manager for the Australian Film Commission, before managing the ABC-Film Victoria Game On initiative, Desperation eventually drove him from the bureacracy and back into filmmaking.

Keith Barclay (Editor, New Zealand)
Based in Auckland, Keith is repsonsible for the New Zealand content of Screen Hub, as well of for bringing his art department / crew experience to the editorial mix. Keith worked in theatre in the UK, before moving to New Zealand and discovering these funny things called “screens”. His credits include Shortland Street, Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess, as well as “an enormous number of TVCs – they pay better” and live events. He spent the years 2001-2003 explaining to people that there were only so many Orcs available, and that they had to share them! He has lived and worked in many different countries, including Britain (born there), the U.S., most of Western Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, China, Japan, Indonesia, Australia and now New Zealand.

Anne Richey (Assistant Editor)
Anne spent seven years working for an electricity company and writing screenplays before starting work at Screen Hub. She is currently an Associates Representative on the Victorian Australian Writers' Guild committee, and has been the recipient of two New Writers grants. She looks after the jobs, events and production report sections of Screen Hub, as well as writing articles. Anne is currently in the uniquely writer's version of hell – having sold the options to scripts, and seen nothing make it to production – yet!

Luisa Mirabilio (Advertising & Sales)
Luisa is the only member of the Screen Hub team with music video credits (art direction), and before joining Screen Hub was the Short Course Program Coordinator for Metro Screen. Somewhat strangely for an advertising salesperson, she has qualifications in editing, VFX, in continuity and as a 1st AD. She also spent five years as the manager of iconic online music store Waterfront Records, where she helped promote independent Australian music. All of which means that she knows an awful lot about advertising and online sales from the advertisers side of the business, and a thorough working knowledge of the film and television industries. And really good taste in music.

Breeze Prakit (Webmaster)
Breeze has a Bachelor of Computing from La Trobe University, and is completing her Masters at RMIT. She is responsible for maintaining a website and looks after the technical support of Screen Hub.

Alex Prior (Managing Director)
Alex combines being management with acting as Screen Hub's financial journalist. He has the distressing habit of reading (and understanding) the accounts section of other people's annual reports. He co-founded Screen Hub in 2004, and has a particular liking for the word “eclectic”, having worked as a playwright (14 commissioned works), production manager, freelance journalist, conference and festival organiser, theatre manager, artistic director and in half a dozen other occupations (often simultaneously). He can rig lights, operate heavy machinery, build sets, construct budgets, raise millions in sponsorship and government funding, run teams, execute marketing plans in all media - and inevitably and with joy, write. He defines "career" as moving rapidly with little control - the essential aim being to avoid smashing into something solid enough to cause damage.

John Paxinos (Director)
John Paxinos co-founded Screen Hub in 2004 and provides the financial brains. His firm, John Paxinos & Associates, provides financial and management services to arts organisations and festivals and manages Auspicious Arts Projects Inc. He is a bit of a legend in the circus world, having been General Manager of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus from late 1979 to 1985. In partnership with Bomber Perrier he planned and executed the first two tours to Canada as well as premier seasons in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, and continues to provide financial advise to people who make a living from activities even more uncertain than film.

The Regulars
Many industry professsionals contribute their knowledge and skills to Screen Hub – but none quite as regularly as this lot.

Dominic Case (post-production)
Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and also of the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society (BKSTS), Dominic is a past Chair of SMPTE's Australian section, and an International Governor. He is also a former Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission. Dominic's credits range from What I Have Written (1993) to the restoration of The Sentimental Bloke (1919). He holds degrees in Physics and Mass Communications and is the author of two books on film and post-production methods. As Chair of FIBRE (Film Industry Broadband Resources Enterprise) he led an industry-wide group in developing business models for broadband access.

Tina Kaufman (feature film)
A long time Australian film critic and journalist, Tina edited the late Film News and served on the board of the Sydney Film Festival for 25 years. ABC Radio once described her as “one of the people who know where all the bodies are buried in the Australian film business.” She is quite happy to dig them up and have a chat for us. Her latest book on Wake in Fright has recently been published by Currency Press.

Mark Poole (documentary & education)
Documentary director and writer Mark Poole (Fearless, India Rising, Birth of a Film Festival, among others), also has an intimate knowledge of tertiary education policy in the film and television sectors. He is a former board member of both the Australian Writers' Guild and the Australian Directors Guild.

Rachael Turk
Rachael is the former Communications Manager for animation house Animal Logic (1997-2003), and editor of Inside Film (2003-08). She has a television series in development with Southern Star-John Edwards for the ABC, and a feature film with the same company. She has written and directed at least four successful short films (that she admits to). She also curates and moderates the Australian Film, Television and Radio School's 'Friday On My Mind' industry Q&A sessions.