ICS Designers & Cinematographers

Helen Dallimore

When she's not performing, Helen has been a key player in the independent theatre scene since 1996, as a founding member – and for several years Artistic Director – of the theatre company Hair of the Dog.

Helen co-wrote and directed Light Particles at The Stables Theatre, and directed The New Inhabitant, Will Eno's Tragedy; a tragedy, and the musical Jumpin' the Q by Dean Bryant and Matthew Frank at the Old Fitzroy Hotel.

For Belvoir Street's BSharp Helen directed Sean Monro's Art of Penetration and Sweet Phoebe by Michael Gow.

Helen also wrote and directed the short film Eternally Yours, selected for Best of the Rest at Tropfest.

Since returning from London recently where she starred as Glinda in the Original West End cast of Wicked, Helen has been focusing on writing television comedy, with her own series Bloom currently in the birthing process.

— Download Helen's CV (PDF, 68kb)

Abe Forsythe

Abe Forsythe is an Australian actor/writer/director. He made his professional debut at the age of ten in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Shadowlands. Most recently his acting work includes Fireflies (nominated best actor 2005 Logie Awards), Mary Bryant (ITV - UK) and the acclaimed John Doyle mini-series Marking Time for which he won best actor at the 2004 Australian Film Institute Awards. In 2006 he starred in the Australian/British co-production Tripping Over.

He won the Tropfest Tropicana Award at the age of sixteen for his film Guided By The Light Of The Lord. Two years later he wrote and directed the cult 50min Computer Boy, which spoofed and was filmed on the same locations as The Matrix. To this day it is still one of the most successful long form movies on the internet, having been downloaded over 500,000 times on ifilm and a number of other sites. In 2003 he wrote, directed and starred in the feature comedy Ned, which was released theatrically in Australia by Icon Entertainment.

He has written a number of feature screenplays and was part of the Tropfest/Fox writers initiative Tropnest in 2001 and is currently finalising financing for the horror film Video 8 for Generator Entertainment UK. He has also written hundreds of sketches for the Channel 9 show Comedy Inc and the upcoming Double Take to be screened on Channel 7.

Most recently his short film Being Carl Williams won 2nd place and best comedy at Tropfest 2009.

— Download Abe's CV (PDF, 60kb)

David Lowe

As a student at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (specialising in scriptwriting), David's two major projects were the short dramas Freestyle and The Two-Wheeled Time Machine, which he wrote and directed. Both films have enjoyed considerable international success.

Film festival appearances include Clermont-Ferrand (twice), Tampere (twice), St Kilda (twice), Hamburg, San Diego, Cork, Forum Cannes (twice) and London Film Festival. Television sales include Germany and France (Arte), UK (Channel 4), Spain and Poland (Canal+), Italy (Telepiu) and Australia (SBS).

Freestyle won the Golden Eve Award for Best Editing at the 1998 Festival dei Festival (Italy), The Patrons' Award for Best Short Film at the 1997 San Diego Film Festival (USA), Most Popular Short Film at the 1997 Australian International Film Festival (Canberra) and Best Short Thriller at the 1998 Noir in Festival (Italy).

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine was selected by Village Roadshow to support Cosi in its 2004 DVD release. It was also chosen by Cinema des Antipodes, in France, to appear as a bonus in the Peter Weir Collector's Edition DVD box set.

Since graduating from AFTRS, David has created numerous projects for film, TV and interactive media, as well as writing history, notably his major biography, Out of the Box: the amazing story of war hero and quiz champion Frank Partridge VC.

In 2004 David attended the AFC's residential script workshop, Spark. Since then he's been developing a number of feature screenplays, including Cloudcatcher (funded for development by the AFC), One in a Million (with Panckhurst Productions), Ash Wednesday (with Wonderland Productions) and Human Race (in development with the NSWFTO).

David is currently collaborating with the producer Helen Panckhurst on various film and television projects, and writing his first novel, Hourglass & Partners.

— Visit David's website.

— Download David's CV (PDF, 80kb)

Judy Morris

Judy Morris is one of Australia's leading artists who works internationally in performing, writing and directing. She has played lead roles in many theatre, film and television productions and is the winner of AFI and Logie Best Actress Awards. A NIDA graduate, Judy also has an extensive musical background being AMEB qualified in music and RAD qualified in dance. Her other numerous credits include writer on Dinotopia (Hallmark USA), writer on Meerkat Manor The Movie (Oxford/Discovery/Animal Planet), writer of BBC film projects including The Hoggs. Director of the feature film Luigi's Ladies which was selected for competition in the American Film Institute Cinetex Comedy Awards and co-writer of Babe, Pig In The City (Universal/Kennedy Miller). Judy also co-wrote and co-directed the feature Happy Feet (Warner Bros/Kennedy Miller). The film Happy Feet won an Academy Award and Bafta award. She has recently completed a screenplay adaptation of Patrick White's Nobel Prize winning novel Eye Of The Storm.

— Download Judy's CV (PDF, 68kb)

Marty Sacks

After thirty years acting in various film and television roles, Martin turned his hand to directing. His directorial debut, in 2003, was a short film he wrote entitled Crushed, which screened as a finalist at the St. Kilda and Los Angeles Short Film Festivals. Martin went on to direct numerous episodes of award winning Australian dramas Blue Heelers and All Saints.

He is currently writing a 13 part drama, set in and around the Australian music industry.