Brad Francis

Like a lot of people I’ve wondered about time travel and the rules we put in place to explain its possibility.Thousands of stories exist about time travel in cinema, theatre and literature.

One story I thought would be great to tell, was my own childhood experience with trying to understand it with a young mind, and then trying to explain it to others.We all know there are rules to time travel, but actually testing these rules is something that seems fictional and silly.

‘Time’ is about one young boy’s exploration that the foolish idea of time travel might actually be possible.

The lead character, a 12-year-old named James, already endures a dysfunctional upbringing but now has to deal with the consequences of his own beliefs and the reactions of others from his school.

Julie Forster has been working in the film industry for the past 30 years. She started as a Production Secretary, working her way up to Production Manager and Line Producer. Her many projects include "Gettin' Square", "Answered By Fire", "Mabo" and the five series of "Sea Patrol". In 2012 she Line Produced "The Strange Calls" for ABC and Hoodlum Productions which goes to air in October and "Nim's Island II" with Bindi Irwin for the US company Walden Media.

Even tho "Time" is Julie's first producing credit, she brings a wealth of experience, reputation and connections to the table. Everyone in the Queensland film industry highly respects Julie and without her, the project would not have already received such crucial industry support. She is the rock, the solid foundation on which this film will grow towards success.

Lucas Thyer is an award winning filmmaker and media producer. His body of work exhibits his strong visual style, technical range and eye for detail. Bringing his unique creativity and enthusiasm to every project, it is little wonder his work has won awards and been screened around the world. Among others, his films have been shortlisted or finalist in the Brisbane International, Tropfest and Flickerfest Film Festivals.

Brad has always been an image creator, studying visual arts and Photography in the 90’s and moving into film/TV in 2001. He earned his first stripes in Adelaide on the successful Aussie TV Drama McLeod’s Daughter’s and feature films including “Travelling Light” and “Tempe Tip”.

His move to Qld opened up many horizons, in this time he forged new connections and worked on over a hundred different projects including TVCs, features like “Storage”, “Crooked Business”and others, documentaries, music videos, short films and reality shows.

Over 11 years in the industry has given Brad a solid well of knowledge and experience do draw from as a cinematographer. He has worked with the best in the business and learnt the skills that can never be taught in a class room, skills that come from dealing with the pressures of failing light, the craziness of international productions and how to make it look good on a non existent budget.

Brad brings an enthusiasm of pure creation to every project, for more of his work and photography visit:

www.singlesuntheory.com

Lisa Michell started her film career as a runner at BBC television studios in London in 2001. Where she quickly moved into production until her return home in to Australia in 2003. Settling in Brisbane, she worked as a freelance production assistant until making the move into art department in 2007, from where she has never looked back!

She was a buyer/dresser on the TV series K9 and has worked on films such as “Storage”, “The Reef” and New Holland pictures’ “Iron Sky”.

Lately Lisa has been very busy creating art installations for the Brisbane festival and designing for private clients.

Lisa loves period design and the quirky, intricate and deliberate juxtaposition of elements to compliment the story.

Starting her professional life working in fashion styling, she quickly found her true calling in motion film after delving into music videos. She has worked alongside many notable Australian artists including Silver chair, Missy Higgins, Super Jesus, Little Birdy, Tim Finn and The Grates.

Through music videos she moved into TV commercials in 2003 and then into features a little after that.Her feature credits also include Australian thriller Acolytes in 2007 starring Joel Edgerton, Michael Craft’s Storage in 2008, cult director Jon Hewitt’s King’s Cross thriller X in 2010 starring Viva Bianca and Hanna Mangan Lawrence, web series The Future Machine in 2011, Fox 8’s TV series SLiDE produced by Hoodlum & Playmaker Media in 2011 and ABC2's The Strange Calls series, starring Aussie legend Barry Crocker and Toby Truslove, to be released October 2012.

Just recently she wrapped up designing Ivan Sen’s latest feature film, murder mystery western, Mystery Road. Dressing an A-list cast including Hugo Weaving (The Matrix), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Aaron Pedersen (City Homicide).

With a primary focus in ‘people’, she is interested in human nature, the ‘human condition’ and how it is expressed through clothing. "I'm interested in what the everyday person is wearing, down to the fine tuning of accessories and different ways of wearing ordinary things. It's all about character". She has a deep curiosity with design processes and loves developing a character’s wardrobe.

Charlotte Cutting   Editor

With a surname like hers, Charlotte could have opened a hair salon with a very cool name but instead she felt an irresistible pull towards editing.

As an editor, Charlotte has had a widely varied career working with on short films, documentaries, television commercials, corporate videos, installation / performance visuals and promotional video works. She has edited short films that have screened at both national and international film festivals, as well as working as an in house editor at a number of production /arts companies in Brisbane.

In 2008 her short film ‘The Prams’was a finalist at the Queensland Short Film Festival and was selected to tour as part of the Currumbin ‘In the Bin’short film program and WOW Film Festival, which toured throughout Australia. ‘

6ft Hick: notes from the underground’, a hour long documentary for the ABC /jtv was Charlotte's first foray into editing a broadcast doco. She is currently in the midst of editing another ABC documentary called ABBA: Bang a Boomerang a look at Australia's love affair with ABBA.

Charlotte has a passion for real life stories and thoroughly enjoys the challenges of problem solving at the post stage and showing the viewers the human face of the subjects she is working with.

Tom McSweeney   Casting Director

One of Australia’s most reputable and leading Casting Directors, Tom McSweeney has worked on over 200 feature film, mini-series and tele-movie projects, as well as over 500 hours of episodic television production for the US, UK, Canadian and Australian markets. Tom has held membership in the Casting Society of America (CSA) for the past 19 years, serving on the Board of Directors of the organization prior to his move to Australia in 1998. This year brought fellow casting director, DAVID NEWMAN to the team with the formation of MCSWEENEY/NEWMAN CASTING with permanent offices in Sydney as well as at the Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.

Recognized by his peers on numerous occasions, Tom has received four Artios Award nominations from the CSA and was honoured with an Emmy nomination by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2007 for his work on the mini-series “The Starter Wife”. Tom has been instrumental in providing Australian actors with the opportunities which introduced them to international audiences including: ANNA TORV, EMILY BROWNING, MARTON CSOKAS, KARL URBAN, PHOEBE TONKIN, CLAUDIA KARVAN, JESSE SPENCER, EMILIE DeRAVEN, TAMMIN SURSOK, RACHAEL TAYLOR, CRAIG HORNER, DOMINIC PURCELL, CLAIRE HOLT, DICHEN LACHMAN, CAROLINE GOODALL and MIA WASIKOWSKA

Tom continues to work nurturing rising talent, his company Tom McSweeney Productions offers in-depth training in acting for film and television for the domestic as well as international markets. The company provides both on-going and short-form training in the form of; Short Courses, Workshops and Master Classes by working industry professionals.

Darwin Brooks   First Assistant Director

Darwin Brooks has worked in the film industry as an Assistant Director for over 15 years and is a member of the Directors Guild of America.
In that period of time he has worked on numerous Feature films in Australia (Railway Man, Peter Pan, Mao's Last Dancer and Baz Luhrmann's Australia) and Overseas (47 Ronin, Prince of Persia, Syriana and Alexander).
He has also worked on many Television Series and Tele Movies such as Sea Patrol, The Starter Wife, Nightmares and Dreamscapes and Beast Master).
In the last year he has progressed to a 1st Assistant Director role with credits including feature films Suicide Theory and Before Dawn and a long list of Short Films including Life As It Is, Salt Maiden, Godel Incomplete, BeetleFeeders and Touch.

Those that know Darwin, are familiar with his abundant energy and enthusiasm that he creates around set. We are lucky to have such a well established and experienced 1st to push this great project along. 

Paul Phillips  Stunt Coordinator

Everyone Knows Paul in the film industry, but very few actually know him as Paul…..

“Halfie”, as he is affectionately known is quite a well respected and loved character of the Australian  film scene, having been involved in it now for over 20 years. In fact I have known Halfie for many years now, but only just recently found out his real name, I guess I should read my call sheets more thoroughly.

Starting in 1992 as one of the crazy stunt men in the daily “Police Academy” stunt show at Movie World, Halfie quickly took to throwing himself off buildings on fire, like a duck does to water. With over 500 days as a stunt actor, he has pretty much jumped off, through, hit by, smashed, and blown up everything in his path. All doing this in the safest possible way with having 498 days as Safety Supervisor under his belt and now pushing 900 days as Stunt Coordinator, so even to the layman like myself, that is a LOT of experience.

If you ever need someone to drive any motorized anything, then Halfie is your man as he is still  currently a Movie World stunt driver in the “Hollywood” stunt show and has over 100 precision driving days external to that under his belt. Also, due to him being a professional Drift Car racer, he can definitely get anything sideways in spectacular style.

We are exceptionally lucky to have Halfie on our team and it isn’t just for his wealth of experience but more because of his energetic personality. You will be hard pressed to find a happier, more relaxed person on set and he has a very infectious personality that keeps everyone around him smiling, clam and enthusiastic.