 While Drew Jarvis has plenty of experience behind the camera – even funding his own horror movie called All Hallows Eve, which he wrote and directed in 2002, The Shak is his first foray into television presenting. Drew plays Curio, the founder and natural leader of The Shak, whose love of science is not only fun and informative but also entirely infectious. Drew has appeared in many theatre productions around Brisbane, winning awards for his role as “Trev” in Reg Cribb’s “The Return”. He has also been involved in numerous locally produced short films, scoring a 2007 Queensland New Filmmaker’s Award Best Male Lead nomination for his role in “Imaginary Ordinary” and a Best Male Lead second runner-up award in the 2007 48 Hour Film Festival. Drew is also a member of the “Edge Improvisational Troupe” who perform weekly shows throughout Brisbane.
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 John Willsteed is a lecturer in sound design at QUT. He has a long and varied career as a musician, travelling the world and leaving a legacy of hummable basslines and unpaid bar tabs. He is a graduate of the AFTRS and Griffith University, a winner of multiple AFI awards and a partner in Brisbane’s newest and neatest sound post facility, LCR Film Sound in New Farm. He will be performing with Ed Kuepper at this year’s Queensland Music Festival and is currently the bass player in The Black Dog. Judging, though, is his one true love.
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 Stephen Kanaris completed a BA in Film and Television at QUT where he directed a number of short films and documentaries. He has gone on to write, direct and edit TV commercials and segments as a freelancer and also with Channel 10. Currently he works as an in-house writer/director at Brisbane Marketing and also lectures film and television part time at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art). In 2007 his screenplay Boundless was selected for funding by the NSW Film and Television Office and in 2009 Boundless won BEST FILM and BEST DIRECTOR at Australia’s most prestigious short film festival, St. Kilda. The film has since gone on to play at the Brisbane International Film Festival, New Orleans International Film Festival and was selected as a finalist in this year’s ATOM Awards.
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 Veronica Fury is an Independent Producer. She is the company director of Fury Productions. After graduating from Griffith University's Film School in 2003 she produced two QPIX Short Documentaries for ABC TV. She went on to co-write and produce with Mark Chapman of Big Island Pictures, a one-hour historical documentary for SBS TV entitled "Black Solider Blues" (Writer/Director Nicole McCuaig), which was short-listed for the prestigious NSW Premiers Award.
After recently completing "The Glamour Game" series for SBS, Fury in now in production on a one-hour biography of the late artist Ian Fairweather for ABC TV (Writer/Director Aviva Ziegler). She is also financing "The Curse of the Gothic Symphony" (Writer/Director Anthony Mullins), an exciting arts documentary for ABC TV. Fury currently has a number of projects in various stages of development.
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 John Cox
Academy Award Winner-Founder of John Cox Creature Workshop
At age 14, having just watched the original 'King Kong' on late night
television John Cox decided that he was going to make creatures for the
movies. He spent every afternoon after school and every weekend sequestered
in his parents' garage drawing, sculpting and experimenting with materials,
determined to learn the craft of making monsters. Nineteen years later
John won a 1995 Academy Award (yes that is an Oscar) for Visual Effects
for the movie 'Babe'.
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Linton Vivian has a wealth of experience as a cinematographer, shootingproductions across Australia and overseas. His footage has aired on all Australian Television Networks and has been projected on cinema screensthroughout Australia, Norway and Germany. He has received numerous awardsincluding the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Queensland Judges' Award for drama in 2002. Most recently Linton's work was seen on thedocumentary series "Unlikely Travellers", which was screened on ABC TV,selected for the Brisbane International Film Festival and won the 2007 Inside Film Award for Best Documentary.
"Unlikely Travellers" is available on DVD through JB HiFi and ABC Bookshops.
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 Sally McKenzie recently completed 52 min arts documentary actingclassof1977.com . She has several documentaries in development including SM!TA: Short Men In The Arts and Seeing Red: Rages on the 21st Century, as well as feature films Blue Woman and Option 15. In production is documentary series actormyspace, which follows 5 Australian actors in 5 yearly intervals over a 10-year period from 1999 to 2009. A graduate from Australia’s prestigious acting school, the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sally also holds a MFA with a writing directing film major from QUT. Other works include short films Death by Art, Shopping for Baby (New Filmmakers Awards winner) and No Man’s Land, along with stage plays i dot luv dot u☺ and Scattered Lives (both AWGIE nominees) and multi-media theatre piece episodes. Winner of many acting awards including the National Television Society’s Penguin Award for Best Performance by An Actress in a Serial, Sally has worked as an actor for over 30 years. She is company director for Coalface Communications, a company established in 1998 to produce screen and multimedia theatre product.
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 Sean Maher is an award winning short filmmaker, PhD candidate researching the city and cinema and lecturer in film and television at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
He holds a Masters of Arts (Research) Honours First Class, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Film Studies, a Masters of Arts Coursework, Film and Theatre, UNSW, a Bachelor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong and University of Massachusetts, USA.
Prior to being appointed at QUT he has held lecturing positions at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), UNSW, and the University of Technology, Sydney In 2001, he was a media policy researcher at the Communications Law Centre and author of the 2004 Australian Film Commission report, Internationalisation of Australian Film and Television. He has contributed feature articles for the Sydney Film Festival, written regular film and theatre reviews and worked as a film festival organiser for the New York Anthology Film Archives. He is currently making a documentary on Brisbane featuring a noir narrative as the methodology that underpins the historiography.
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 Steve
Baker Winner Tropfest's Best Film for 2007 and AFI Nominee
has been making films since the turn of the century. In that short amount
of time he has written and directed multi-award winning short films that
have traveled the world over, including - 'Confessions of an Animation',
one of the most popular and sought after films on the international circuit
since 2004. His latest film - 'An Imaginary Life' took out first
prize at this year's Tropfest, the world's largest short film festival,
and has recently picked up an AFI nomination for Best Short Animation.
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 Kerry
Farrell - Senior Editor with Cutting Edge
The winner of the editing category will get the opportunity to work with
Brisbane's leading Senior Editor Kerry Farrell. Kerry has more than thirteen
years of experience in the field of editing and special effects and has
won numerous awards. Visit www.cuttingedge.com.au
to view Kerry's showreel of work.
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