Long, Clear View: Tim Winton’s The Turning

Shaun Gladwell is an Australian-born, London-based artist who works in a number of mediums, including painting and photography, but he is best known for his video installations. Gladwell’s video work frequently centres around improvised and choreographed performances of the body in motion, set aga... Read more

Writer, director, producer and visual artist, Claire McCarthy has been making internationally acclaimed short films and documentaries for over a decade. Her feature film, The Waiting City, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for three Film Critics Circle Awards, an... Read more

Tony Ayres is a principal and founding partner of Matchbox Pictures and an accomplished writer, director and producer for both film and television. His feature film, The Home Song Stories, premiered at Berlin and won 23 Australian and international awards including 8 AFI Awards. His first feature, W... Read more

Jonathan auf der Heide is a Victorian College of the Arts graduate who wrote, directed and edited the short film Hell’s Gates which won Best Student Film and Best Emerging Filmmaker at MIFF ‘08. He then adapted that short into the feature, Van Diemen’s Land, with co-writer Oscar Redding. The f... Read more

Tim Winton is the pre-eminent Australian novelist of his generation. He has published twenty-five books for adults and children and his books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. He lives in Western Australia. Tim’s literary reputation was established early when his first novel, An Op... Read more

Jub is a Nyul Nyul/Yawuru woman from the Beagle Bay and Broome regions of the Kimberley in WA. Graduating from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Jub spent many years as a theatre performer and is currently writing her first play, Dust. For film and television she has worked as casting d... Read more

Ian Meadows studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. His television writing credits include Spirited, Offspring, and Slide. Ian co-wrote and acted in the short film, Water, and co-wrote, directed and produced the short film A Parachute Falling in Siberia, which screened i... Read more

Marieka Walsh is an Australian director/animator whose AACTA/AFI award winning short film The Hunter has marked her out as a rising talent to watch. With a background in visual arts, Walsh’s work demonstrates a unique visual style and meticulous attention to detail that complements her emotionally... Read more

Warwick graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 1997 with a BA in Cinematography and has an extensive body of work as a cinematographer including feature films Here I Am and The Sapphires. Warwick’s feature film, Samson & Delilah, which he wrote, directed and shot, w... Read more

Robert Connolly is a multi-AFI award winning writer and director. He has written and directed three feature films The Bank, Three Dollars, Balibo and most recently, the Channel 10 telemovie, Underground: The Julian Assange Story. Together with John Maynard, he produced the award-winning films, The B... Read more

Rhys Graham is a Melbourne-based filmmaker and writer whose work traverses drama and documentary. His recent credits include co-directing the feature length documentaries Murundak – songs of freedom and Words from the City. He is also the director of a number of short dramas and documentaries ... Read more

Ashlee Page is a multi-award winning writer and director. Her short film The Kiss has received several prestigious awards including two AFI Awards, the Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award for Best Short and the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker. The Kiss... Read more

Mia Wasikowska is an actor who has established herself as a rising star of the big screen. Residing in Canberra, Mia is making her directorial debut with Long, Clear View. As an actress, Mia Wasikowska worked in Australian television and film before making her debut to US audiences as a suicidal tee... Read more

Simon Stone has established himself as one of the most acclaimed directors in the country. He has achieved critical and commercial success and was selected as one of Australia’s 10 emerging leaders in culture by the Weekend Australian. Simon was the founder of The Hayloft Project and his work for ... Read more

Justin’s background as one of Australia’s best theatrical designers informs his strong visual storytelling as a director. Justin graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts directing course where he was awarded the Most Outstanding Postgraduate Student. His work spans feature film, short fi... Read more

Sandy George presents films on SBS One and is long-time correspondent for the London-based industry trade magazine Screen International and the online news feed www.screendaily.com. She regularly writes for www.SBS.com.au/film and contributes to a range of other websites and publications. She has be... Read more