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Film Victoria & me
An epic cinematic experience, working with the best little Victorian State Government statutory body there ever was.
From 2007 to 2016, as the "locations guy", I worked in production attraction, production support marketing and communications. I worked cross-departmentally, cross state lines with other government screen agencies collaboratively, internationally with American, Chinese and Indian film studios and intergalactically with (fictional) universes far, far away (and basing physical production in Melbourne).
watch showreels and motion graphics produced for Film Victoria
Here's high-level snapshot of 9 years:
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Successfully attracted production, including Knowing, The Dressmaker, Killer Elite, Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark, HBO’s The Pacific, HBO’s The Leftovers via development of bespoke content, services, websites, participation in government and industry campaigns and direct engagement with studios; supported several local productions, e.g.: Offspring, Neighbours, Jack Irish, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Holding the Man
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Launched several websites including Locations Gallery, Industry Directory and Image Lounge websites, assisted other State agencies in developing their own locations and lounge websites
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Hosted Sir Ridley Scott (and entourage), during his Australian survey for feature films The Martian and Alien: Covenant; Gale Ann-Herd, (executive producer of The Walking Dead) surveyed and chose Melbourne for the sci-fi series Hunters; Glenn Gainor, President of Physical Production of Screen Gems (division of Sony Entertainment); and several teams from HBO representing The Pacific and The Leftovers, both chose Melbourne to base productions
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Collaborated with a cross-departmental team to deliver the Filming Approval Act (2014), simplifying approval processes for permit-applications across all Victorian councils; championed advocacy and resolved road-blocks for councils, audited council permitting configurations, their websites and developed new permit application model
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Cultivated partnership between the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council (VAHC) and Film Victoria, delivered maps functionality on Locations website representing Registered Aboriginal Parties (RAPs established by the State Government as authorities for Indigenous Cultural Heritage); functionality allowed screen production to connect with Indigenous authorities to begin dialogue
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Contributed to the development of The Victorian Code of Conduct, outlining legal protocols, health and safety framework, which all Victorian screen production adheres
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Delivered lectures to higher education (Swinburne, VCA) in collaboration with Victoria Police on The Victorian Screen Industry Code of Conduct, orientating students to legalities of Victorian screen production
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Created a public-service allowing Victorians to register their homes for screen production
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Photographed thousands of new locations assets, growing Film Victoria’s database used to attract and support screen production
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Locations photography published in Location Magazine and VCE Media Studies textbooks, used in marketing for Dockland Studios Melbourne, Ausfilm, Screen Australia
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Formed partnership with Tourism Victoria and produced several location videos used to promote Victoria
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Produced and edited several showreels and videos celebrating Victorian Screen Industry champions, screened at Victoria events including Seen & Screened, The Screen Leader Awards and The Melbourne International Film Festival
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