DIRECTOR - KAREN MCPHERSON

Karen, originally from Germany and an RMIT graduate (2005) has worked on many productions internationally and in Australia including features, short films, documentaries and music videos. After taking a few years out to build her family Karen discovered she was inspired to not be scared of challenges such as working with children, rabbits or clowns on set. She was recently awarded 1st prize in the SBS competition “Join In” for her work with a bunch of very happy pre-school aged children. She has also been working on a short documentary series with cinematographer Timothy Arch, which is due to be released early 2015.

PRODUCER - BRONNY LANE

Bronny a Melbourne University B.Mus Graduate always figured her love of film would eventuate in penning the great Australian score. As it turned out, her career began behind the camera firstly producing advertising content, before eventually producing a documentary for the Australian National Academy of Music. Continuing to dabble behind the scenes Bronny has produced two successful crowd funding campaigns and many corporate video's. Her work on POP marks her first venture into short films.  Bronny is also a writer and write's for MamaMia and Woman.com to name a couple, she is also the author of the My Super Family children's book series and runs Little Train Marketing Solutions.

CINEMATOGRAPHER - TIMOTHY ARCH

With over 10 years of experience behind the lens Tim has filmed, produced, directed, edited, and assisted on a range of projects, including the 2006 Hollywood feature  “Irresistible”, but also  live music festivals, world championship sporting events, government promos, and live to air television. Tim first learned to take a decent exposure with his dad’s fully manual Olympus OM-2 in his teens, and soon found himself drawn to the lure of creating the image. Most recently, Tim has been working on a short documentary series with director Karen McPherson, as well as shooting the award winning SBS promo - “Join In”. 

CAST 

BRUNO - SIMON CONLON


Simon has worked as an actor and performer for over a decade since graduating from the RSAMD in Scotland. As an experienced theatre performer, Simon gravitates toward the collaborative storytelling that working with new writing and devising can lend itself to. Working under the guidance of Magdalena Shamberger, Simon has found clowning as his preferred method of performance, and is constantly plumbing new depths to his own idiocy. Simon is also part of the “No Job Too Big” clown troupe in  Melbourne.

DOCTOR MOLLY - BRIAR SEYB-HAYDEN


Briar graduated from theatre school and, being captivated by the magic of the circus, went on to study circus at Circo Arts, New Zealand's circus school. Since then she has performed and taught circus and clown all over the world. She has worked with Circus OZ, Circus Aotearoa and The Westside Circus to name a few. Briar is a founding director of Clowns Without Borders Australia, a humanitarian arts organisation dedicated to improving the psychosocial wellbeing of children and communities in need across the world. Briar also spends her time working for the Starlight Children’s Foundation at the Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne.