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The 2008 Festival Judges
Genevieve Lemon
AFI nominee Genevieve Lemon has worked professionally as an actor/singer for 21 years. A strong working relationship with award winning director Jane Campion, has seen Genevieve star in Sweetie (for which she won the Australian Film Critics Award for Best Actress), The Piano, Holy Smoke, and most recently, The Water Diary. Other Australian films include The Well, Soft Fruit, and Suburban Mayhem (to be released). TV credits includes Prisoner, Neighbours, Three Men and a Baby Grand, Seven Deadly Sins, and Always Greener.
Most recently Genevieve has performed in the Sydney Theatre Company’s productions of Summer Rain, Harbour, and Victory. In 2005 she was nominated for a MO Award for best Female Actor in a Play, with the one woman show My Brilliant Divorce. 2007 saw her performing in the stage production of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, while 2008 has her performing in the stage version of Billy Elliot.
A seasoned cabaret performer, Genevieve is currently touring with The Wharf Revue, and over the years has written and performed in her self devised shows Narrabeen Girl, Lemon, Live and Bitter and Lone Star Lemon. With a talented trio of daughters, Genevieve is in denial about being a potential stage mother.
 Garry Maddox
Garry Maddox is the film writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
He's also a former policy manager for the Film Finance Corporation and editor of Encore Magazine and Total Sport.
Philip Gwynne
 Phillip Gwynne is one of eight children and grew up in country South Australia. He played Australian Rules football for Woodville before a serious knee injury finished his career. Phillip has a degree in Marine Biology and has worked in a number of jobs including computer programming. Phillip lives in the Blue Mountains with his wife and two children.
Phillip Gwynne's first novel Deadly, Unna? was the literary hit of 1998. It went on to win numerous awards including highly coveted 1999 Children’s Book Council's Book of the Year Award (Older Readers), Children's Peace Literature Award, SA Festival Award for Children’s Literature and the 1999 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. It has now sold over 180,000 copies.
The German translation of Deadly, Unna? was short listed for a prestigious literary award in Germany, and Phillip received an Australia Council grant to attend the Berlin Literary Festival in September 2003.
Phillip has since written The Worst Team Ever and Born To Bake for the Aussie Bites series, and Nukkin Ya, the eagerly awaited sequel to Deadly, Unna?. Nukkin Ya was short-listed for several awards and was deemed a notable book by the Children’s Book Council in 2001. It has recently been published in Germany.
Australian Rules, the critically regarded feature movie based on Deadly, Unna? was selected for a number of international and local film festivals including Sundance, Edinburgh, Stockholm and closing night of the Melbourne Film Festival. Australian Rules was nominated for 18 Awards in 2002 and Phillip won the AFI award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Phillip’s latest book, Jetty Rats, was published in February 2004 by Penguin. With support from the Australian Children’s Television Foundation he is currently writing a screenplay based on the book.
The Build Up, a crime fiction novel based in Darwin will be published in July 2008 by Pan MacMillan. Film rights have already been taken out by Chris Noonan, director of Babe and Ms Potter.
Mark Lee
 Mark has worked in film and theatre for over thirty years. Following a role in Peter Weir’s ‘Gallipoli’ in 1981, he has appeared in numerous projects.
Films include ‘Sahara’, ‘Love Stories’, ‘Chameleon’ ‘Emma’s War’ and ‘Blackwater Trail’. Television work in Kennedy/Miller’s ‘Vietnam’, ABC’s ‘Out There’ and several American/Australian productions.
His stage work includes ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ (QTC), ‘The Cobra’ (STC), ‘Hay Fever’ (Playhouse), ‘Miracle of the Rose’ (Belvoir St) ‘Unit 46’ (Director/lead – Sidetrack Theatre), ‘Men Of Honour’ (Ensemble Theatre), ‘The Time Machine’ (One man show @ Cat and Fiddle and Glenn St. Theatres) ‘The Frail Man’ (Darlinghurst Theatre)and most recently ‘The Good German’ (Black Pearl productions, Seymour Centre).
In 2002 Mark began directing short films ‘At The Edge of the Bed’, ‘El Burro’, ‘Stranger so Familiar’ and in 2005 he directed his debut feature film ‘The Bet’ (Gerrycan Productions) which was released nationally in 2007.
Mark also works with a three piece blues/roots band ‘Mark Lee & the Co-Pilots’, which was formed in 2006. His album - ‘you may hear footsteps…’ - was independently released in 2007. |
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