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 12 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 and is currently Business Manager at Queensland Arts Council.
Alana founded Perception Pictures Pty Ltd in 2004, and is 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.
In 2007, Jade completed her first feature film as a producer, All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane. The film received a national and international theatrical release as well as a worldwide DVD release and broadcast in several countries. In 2008, the filmwas officially selected for the Inside Film Awards and the Australian Film Institute Awards while also winning the Audience Award at Nat Filmfestivalen in Denmark and Best Film at Barbican’s London Australian Film Festival.
Jade work on Chris Nyst’s (Getting’ Square) Crooked Business as Line Producer in August 2007 and worked on Storage as Production Coordinator under the well respected Production Manager Julie Forster and Producer Elizabeth Symes in 2008. From late 2008 to mid 2010, she worked on feature documentary My America (which recently premiered at the Sydney International Film Festival)as Associate Producer and Production Manager with Producer Trish Lake. In late 2010, she moved onto the feature thriller Crawl as Production Manager with Producer Brian Breheny.
More recently, Jade completed work as Production Coordinator on the New Holland Pictures production Iron Sky, under renowned Production Manager Amanda Crittenden. She is currently working with Brisbane and Sydney based company Wild Fury on various documentaries.
In between feature projects, Jade has produced several short films. Her latest, The Foal, won Best Film at the 2010 In the Bin Film Festival, the 2010 Shorts on the Green Film Festivals and the 2011 Angry Film Festival. It also placed as 1st Runner Up of the Super Short Golden Oosikar Award at the 2010 Anchorage International Film Festival. The film has screen at over twenty-five international and national film festivals including Palm Springs, Brooklyn, Rhode Island, Long Island, Fort Lauderdale, Newport Beach, St Louis, Whistler, St Kilda and Dungog film festivals.
View Jade's full filmography here.
At age 19, Josh finished his first short film The Man Amongst Trees as the director, writer, producer, DOP, editor and sound designer. The film went on to be selected for the 2007 Melbourne and Sydney Underground Film Festivals as well as the 2008 Queensland New Filmmaker Awards, where it was the most nominated film of the year.
In January 2008, Josh starting working on music clips and TVCs in the camera department, before moving onto features including Storage and Triangle and My America as Data Wrangler. He also completed his second short film The Accountant and the Clown as director, writer, producer, DOP and editor.
Josh directed his first short with Perception Pictures, Embrace in early 2009 and recently completed his latest two short films, Deliberation and The Foal, with actors David Roberts (Matrix 2&3, The Square, Fools Gold) and Henry Nixon (Noise, The Pacific). The Foal won Best Film at the 2010 In the Bin Film Festival, the 2010 Shorts on the Green Film Festivals and the 2011 Angry Film Festival. It also placed as 1st Runner Up of the Super Short Golden Oosikar Award at the 2010 Anchorage International Film Festival. The film has screen at over twenty-five international and national film festivals including Palm Springs, Rhode Island, Fort Lauderdale, Newport Beach, St Louis, Whistler, St Kilda and Dungog film festivals.
You can see Josh's full filmography here.
*Josh also became a company director of Perception Pictures in 2010.
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) and is completing a Diploma of Film and Television at Metropolitan South Insitute of Tafe in 2010.
From as young as 9 years old Nic Gribben dreamed of becoming a filmmaker. His early knowledge of film was passed on by his Mother, who introduced him to classic cinema. However, it was always science fiction and the stop motion works of Ray Harryhausen that interested him the most.
By making use of his older brother’s large collection of Lego, and with much guidance from his parents, Nic developed his creative talent. Nic realised his filmmaking dream was possible in High School, when his class film won Best Overall Student Film at the Queensland New Filmmaker Awards in 2000.
After completing a two-year film course at Southbank Institute, Nicholas Gribben enrolled in Bachelor of Screen 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 productions and personal projects.
Shortly after graduating, Nic gained further experience in cinematography by shooting various low budget short films and music videos. He 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 2007 Nic established the Cinenic Studio Workshop, a production house specialising in stop motion animation. At the 2007 Australian Cinematography Society (ACS) Awards Nic won two Gold State Awards and two National Awards for the clay-animated television commercial, BU. Since then, Nic has collected 10 Cinematography awards for his stop animation works including a Golden Tripod, the highest available award in a category, at the 2008 National ACS Awards for his TVC Keffords.
In between stop animation jobs, Nic has worked as a Props Sculptor on Singularity and Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, sculpting many unique and one-off creations, including The Book of Incantations, a heavily featured hero prop.
In late 2009 Nic travelled to General Lift in Los Angeles, and met with company director Joe Lewis. Nic negotiated the purchase of a Genuflex Motion Control Rig, a robotically controlled camera crane, to further advance the quality of his work. This is one of only four rigs in Australia, and the only one of its kind in Queensland.
More recently, Nic has built a new stop motion animation studio in Anstead, Brisbane, which now houses the motion control rig, and comprises of separate wood and metal working areas, sculpting and moulding stations, welding facilities, a postproduction editing and visual effects suite, and a 12x12 meter lightproof studio floor for stop motion animation. The Cinenic Studio Workshop will be open to the public in late 2010, and will be the largest stop motion animation facility in Queensland.
As an ambitious filmmaker and passionate stop motion animator, Nic Gribben always strives for a higher quality of work. He has many projects in the making, and aims to put Brisbane and Australia on the map with stop motion animation.
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