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Tim Bain  

Tim Bain

Curriculum Specialist, Illustrator

Tim Bain is an award-winning filmmaker, animator, TV writer and children’s playwright. An audio-visual jack-of-all-trades, he writes, directs, produces and edits television commercials, promotional films, documentaries and animation, and writes television comedy.

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Thomas Caldwell  

Thomas Caldwell

Author, Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist

Thomas Caldwell is a freelance writer, broadcaster and public speaker who specialises in film criticism and educational writing on film. He is the author of the secondary school textbook Film Analysis Handbook, he writes the film criticism blog Cinema Autopsy and he reviews films for the Breakfasters on Melbourne independent community radio station Triple R (3RRR 102.7FM). He also co-hosts the Triple R film criticism podcast Plato’s Cave, regularly reviews films for The Big Issue and is one of the film and television columnists for Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog.

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Fiona Capp  

Fiona Capp

Author, Curriculum Specialist

Fiona Capp is the internationally published author of three works of non-fiction including That Oceanic Feeling, a memoir about her love for the sea and surfing. She is also the author of three novels – Night Surfing, Last of the Sane Days and Musk & Byrne. Her most recent book is part memoir, part journey through the landscapes which inspired Australian poet Judith Wright, My Blood’s Country.

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Karen Ford  

Karen Ford

Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist

Karen Ford (B.Ed, MA) is a senior English teacher with 26 years’ experience. She holds a Masters in Cinema from LaTrobe University and has lectured at LaTrobe University and the Victorian College of the Arts. Karen is a Clinical Specialist with the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.

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Frank Jones  

Frank Jones

Storyteller/Performer, Entertainer, Curriculum Specialist

Frank Jones is one of Australia’s most gifted songwriters. He wrote Melbourne’s unofficial anthem, My Brown Yarra (Whirling Furphies), and currently writes for his new band, BiG FOLK, and for many other Australian performers.

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Bec Kavanagh  

Bec Kavanagh

Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist

Bec Kavanagh is a reviewer, freelance writer & YA fiction specialist. She is the founder of A Thousand Words Festival, which celebrates and encourages the reading and writing of young adult fiction. In 2010 she appeared at the Melbourne Writers Festival and AussieCon4 (the 68th World Science Fiction Convention).

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John Kilner  

John Kilner

Education Consultant, Journalist, Curriculum Specialist

John Kilner is a well known expert in the fields of media issues, writing analysis and persuasive writing. He has worked for The Age for nineteen years, much of that time for the Education supplement.

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Josh Nelson  

Josh Nelson

Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist, Author

Josh Nelson (BCA Hons, PhD) has worked as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Victoria University, and has extensive experience presenting to secondary schools on a number of film and media-related topics. He has appeared on Triple R as a guest reviewer for Film Buffs Forecast, and his writing has been published in Screening The Past, Arts Hub and on his website, Philmology. Josh is currently working on a number of film projects.

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Tony Thompson  

Tony Thompson

Author, Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist

Tony Thompson is a Melbourne based writer and teacher. He has written two non fiction books for teenagers. His articles on education have appeared in The Age and The Australian.

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Pelissa Tsilimidos-Thorne  

Pelissa Tsilimidos-Thorne

Curriculum Specialist, Education Consultant

Pelissa Tsilimidos-Thorne (B.A., Dip. Ed., MA. Ed.) is a senior English teacher with 25 years’ experience. She holds a research Masters in Education (Film as Text) from Monash University and has written for various educational journals and books.

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