Alana holds First Class Honours in Film and Television Production at the Griffith Film School (2006) and has worked on numerous productions over the past 11 years. With over 20 independent Film and Television credits to date, including First Assistant Director on the feature films All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (Bunker Productions International, 2006) and Crooked Business (by writer/director Chris Nyst, 2007), her other film credits include various music videos, television commercials and short films.
Alana has extensive Festivals and Events Management experience. She was the National Event Manager of the 48 Hour Film Project in Australia, managing the competition and events from inception in Brisbane in 2004 to hand-over in 2009. In addition she has worked as the Festivals Liaison Officer for the Griffith Film School from 2005 to 2007, the Event Coordinator for the Brisbane Open-air and Bondi Open-air Cinemas in 2007 and 2008, and the Awards Coordinator for the St. George Bank Brisbane International Film Festival Queensland New Filmmakers Awards and Courier-Mail Queensland Short Film Competition (2008). In addition, she is a competent administrator with a current AQF level 4 certificate in Business Administration.
Alana founded Perception Pictures Pty Ltd in 2004, and is still currently a Company Director. She recently worked with the Blacklab International team as their in-house Production Coordinator, on various television commercials. Alana's passion lies with the written word, and she has assisted many filmmakers as a script editor and writer.
View Alana's full filmography here.
After graduating from a Bachelor of Arts Honours majoring in Creative Writing Production at the Queensland University of Technology, Jade van der Lei moved onto Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art to study a Bachelor of Film and Television Production.
Whilst there, she was able to work on many projects both within and independent of the university, including her graduating film I’ve Met the Devil, which has screened at many national and international film festivals including the 2006 Annual Chicago Horror Film Festival, the 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and the 2005 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Since graduating, Jade has produced several independent projects, and continues to focus on her film and television career, writing and producing films, corporate videos and music clips. In 2006, she joined the 48 Hour Film Project as the Brisbane Event Coordinator and became a company director of Perception Pictures.
In 2007, Jade completed her first feature film as a producer, All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, which premiered at the 2007 Brisbane International Film Festival and started its theatrical release through Greater Union Birch Carroll and Coyle in November 2007. The film has enjoyed great success, being officially selected for the 2008 Inside Film Awards and Australian Film Institute Awards while also winning the Audience Award at Nat Filmfestivalen in Denmark and Best Feature Film at Barbican’s London Australian Film Festival.
In 2008, AMFALB screened at the 21st Singapore International Film Festival, the Dungog Film Festival and at Cinema des Antipodes at the Cannes International Film Festival, the Pacific Meridian Film Festival and Saint-Tropez Antipodes. It also screened theatrically in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Northern Territory, with an extended overseas theatrical release taking place from late 2008 to early 2009. Recently the film has enjoyed a wide television success, screening on HBO in July in 2009, in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. It will also be shown on the Movie Network later this year.
Jade completed work on Chris Nyst’s (Getting Square) directorial feature debut Crooked Business as Line Producer in August 2007 and worked on the Brisbane feature film Storage as Production Coordinator under the well respected Production Manager Julie Forster. and Producer Elizabeth Symes in 2008. She has also recently completed working on feature documentary My America as Production Manager with established documentary filmmaker Peter Hegedus and Executive Producer Trish Lake.
View Jade's full filmography here.
After studying film and television at high school, Josh Tanner attended Inverell TAFE from 2004 to 2006 to further his skills and interests in this area. Over his three years there he directed, wrote, shot and edited a number of films that explored many different genres.
In 2007, at age 19, Josh began work on his first independent short film; the psychological thriller The Man Amongst Trees. As the director, writer, producer, director or photography, editor and sound designer it was a big challege and he spent six months to get it from concept to the finished product. The time spent certainly paid off when the film was officially selected for the 2007 Melbourne Underground Film Festival and Sydney Underground Film Festival. The Man Amongst Trees was also selected for the 2008 Queensland New Filmmaker Awards and was the most nominated film of that year’s competition.
Josh moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland in January 2008 to pursue his filmmaking career. After working on various music clips and TVCs in the camera department, Josh moved on to features in the role of Data Wrangler working on Storage and Triangle as well as the feature documentary My America.
Josh directed his first short film with Perception Pictures Embrace, in late 2008 which was completed in January 2009. He is currently in post-production on his final two short films, Deliberation and The Foal, where he worked with prestigious actors David Roberts (Matrix 2 & 3, Gettin' Square, Fool's Gold) and Henry Nixon (Noise, Triangle and The Pacific).
In the last quarter of 2009 Josh will begin early pre-production for his first feature film, Stray .He is also in development for a feature project based on his short film, The Man Amongst Trees.
You can see Josh's full filmography here.
Adam has been working in both the film and theatre industries for the last ten years as an accomplished actor with roles in over twenty stage, film and television productions. In addition, Adam has expanded his knowledge and experience in various film and television crew roles, from promotional videos to short films. His credits include Second Assistant Director on All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane and First Assistant Director on Tropfest short film Married Life (Pfitzner Creative, 2006).
Adam’s work as on-set photographer, in the short film Notation (QPIX 2005) was published in the European Media Arts Festival (Germany) program. He wrote and directed his first short film with Perception Pictures in 2007, Unseen, which won a Queensland New Filmmakers Award for Best Drama 10-30mins in the Open Category in 2008.
Adam was the Artistic Director of the 48 Hour Film Project Australia from 2006 to 2008, successfully developing the thematic style of the competition’s launch event, whilst also editing the competition's event promotional clips. He also produced, edited and starred in his second Perception Pictures film Mike and Michael in 2008.
Currently developing is professional creative photographic portfolio, which you can see here. Adam is also in post-production for his third Perception Pictures short film, Camp Zombie (2009).
After finishing a two-year film course at the Southbank Institute of TAFE, Nicholas Gribben completed a degree in Film and Television Production at the Queensland College of Art. Whilst at uni, he was able to develop his interests in stop motion animation, cinematography and directing, through both university production and his personal projects.
Shortly after graduating, Nic gained further experience in cinematography by shooting various low budget short films and music videos. Nic later worked as a freelance Camera Assistant on feature films, All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, Unfinished Sky, The Condemned and Australia.
In the year 2005 Nic established his own studio workshop called Cinenic, specalising in stop motion animation productions. At the 2007 Australian Cinematography Society (ACS) Awards Nic won two gold state awards and two national awards for a clay-animated television commercial called BU. Nic was the director, cinematogapher and animator for the Perception Pictures and UKB joint production, The Homestead, an animated promotional trailer. Nic is currently making his first big budget animated short film whilst working in the props and modelling department of the feature film Narnia: Voyage of the Dawntreader.
Perception Pictures has also established ongoing working relationships with the following film and television professionals, amongst many others
Bernard Houston - Composer
Simon Harding - Cinematographer, steadicam operator
Milan Holec - steadicam operator
Regatta Studios - post-sound studio
Nicole Bourke - continuity and editor
alana jessop
mob: 0409 527 103
alana@perceptionpictures.com.au
jade van der lei
mob: 0403 742 266
jade@perceptionpictures.com.au
josh tanner
mob: 0414 515 393
josh@perceptionpictures.com.au