Anne Delaney - Producer | Co-Director
Anne Delaney is an award winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. She has a First Class Honours Degree in History from the University of Sydney, and a Master of Arts degree from the Australian Film TV and Radio School, where she specialised in documentary directing and producing. In 1996 she was a Fulbright Fellow at New York University where she undertook a course in video production. Anne originally trained as a diplomat prior to accepting a position with ABC Radio National, where she worked as a producer and presenter for several years. She subsequently worked as a senior journalist for ABC Radio, ABC TV, and SBS TV, including roles on The Health Report, Background Briefing, Insight, AM/PM,The 7.30 Report, 4 Corners, and Media Watch. She has also worked as a senior adviser to the former Australian Minister for Human Services and Health, Dr Carmen Lawrence, and a consultant for a number of United Nations organizations and non-government agencies, including the World Bank, UNICEF and UNAIDS. Anne has written and directed several television documentaries including PAN, The Shipping News, Double Jeopardy, Seeking Refuge, Intellectually Disabled Parents, Crime and Punishment, Radio Roulette, Safe Sex Fatigue, etc. She is the writer/director of the short films, The Lama of Greystanes, No Mess, and The Letter. She also produced as well as directed the doco Suburb 4 Sale for SBS about the sell off of a public housing estate. Her films have screened at the Chicago, Melbourne, Telluride, Aspen, Tampere, Turin, Columbus, St Kilda, Sydney and Flickerfest Film Festivals, among others.


Bentley Dean - Co-Director
Bentley Dean studied Philosophy and Politics at Sydney University and Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts. In 1997 he participated in the ABC?s inaugural series of Race Around the World. Since then he has worked as a freelance cameraperson and director. In 2001 he began working for SBS TV?s international current affairs programme ?Dateline? making stories around the globe including intimate portraits of Venezuela?s president Hugo Chavez, the Zapatista guerrilla spokesperson Subcomandante Marcos, Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt kidnapped by the FARC guerrilla. His report on human shields in Iraq was made into the documentary Baghdad or Bust for the BBC. In 2002 he filmed and directed Anatomy of a Coup, the story of Venezuela?s dramatic 48 hour coup. It won Best Political Documentary at REAL: Life in Film. In 2003 he filmed and co-directed The President Versus David Hicks. It won the AFI Award for Best Documentary and the TV Week Logie for Most Outstanding Documentary. His feature length film about the love story behind the Lima hostage crisis The Siege premiered at the Sydney film Festival in 2007. A Well-Founded Fear is the first film he has collaborated on with his brother Marden Dean. He hopes there will be many more.


Rani Chaleyer - Editor
Rani Chaleyer graduated as a documentary and drama editor at AFTRS in 2003. At AFTRS she was able to cut her teeth on various short films and documentaries which have shown in festivals throughout the world. Since then she has edited a wide range of programs for Australia and internationally. Rani has a particular passion for long form documentaries, including Suburb 4 Sale (SBS), Road to Tokyo (ABC), Nerves of Steel (ABC) and Women of the Sun: 25 Years Later (Melbourne film festival 2006), Andrew Denton Brother in Arms (ABC 2006), Downunder Grads Editing Consultant (SBS).Her credits also include TV series such as Mythbuster s (SBS), National Treasures (ABC), Landline (ABC), Australian Princess (Ten), Backyard Science (ABC) and Australian Geographic?s Best of Australia series. Rani has always had a love for film and story telling, with a previous incarnation as an aspiring actress. Growing up on a hippie commune on the south coast of NSW, she was surrounded by a community of artists and grass roots theatre makers. At 19 she saved up enough to send herself to The Lee Strasburg theatre institute in New York. She then went on to do a first class honors degree in creative arts at Melbourne University. Her first part-time job as an editor came at age 18 working in the newsroom for Prime TV in Canberra, and she was able to continue part-time news editing work throughout her studies. This diverse background has been a great foundation to her career as an editor.


Amanda Brown - Composer
Composer and musician Amanda Brown worked on the score to A Well Founded Fear with Afghan musicians the Sarshar family whose skills on rubab, tanbura, harmonium and tabla have rarely been heard in Australian films. Her previous credits include feature films Son of a Lion (2008), Monkey Puzzle (2008), Look Both Ways (2005), Preservation (2003) and Floodhouse (2003). She has also composed the music for documentaries Suburb 4 Sale (SBS) and Mask and Memory (ABC).
In other incarnations Amanda was a member of one of independent music?s most cherished bands The Go-Betweens who recently featured in series 2 of Great Australian Albums (SBS). She has worked with a diverse range of artists including R.E.M, silverchair, The Church, Youth Group, The Vines, Josh Pyke and Toni Collette and the Finish.
You can hear additional music and read more about Amanda Brown at:
www.myspace.com/amandagabriellebrown
www.insyncmusic.com.au
www.go-betweens.net


Marden Dean - Director of Photography
Marden Dean is an award winning cinematographer who has worked across the board on dozens of short films, documentaries, music videos and TVC’s. In 2004 Marden graduated from the Victorian College of The Arts where he focused on cinematography and enjoyed close, adventurous collaborations, which continue to spawn cinematic experiments across the globe. In 2007 Marden shot Virtual Freedom, a documentary on the Thailand/ Burma border, retracing the steps of a Burmese refugee now living in Melbourne. Later that year he went to New York to film Getting to Bent about a growing, politically charged fringe art movement called Circuit Bending as well as shooting Family Man a short film that went on to premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival. At last year’s Australian Cinematographer Society awards Marden received two awards for his work on the short film Orange and the music video In The Place. Marden is currently completing his Masters in cinematography at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.


Philip Myers - Sound Designer + Mixer
Philip Myers has been a sound engineer in the Australian film industry for over twelve years. Philip's portfolio includes sound recording feature films, documentaries, short dramas and commercials and he has been a sound editor and mixer on more than a hundred documentaries. Philip has studied film and television production at North Sydney TAFE, has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from UTS and has completed a Masters in Sound at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). In 1999 Philip won the Best Achievement in Sound in a Short Film category at the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards for the AFTRS production Mozzie. He has also been acknowledged for sound work on other films and many of the films he has worked on have won local and international awards. Philip was a sound recordist on the making of Star Wars Episodes I & II. When asked why most of his work has been on documentaries he replies 'Because it's good to be educated and experience a bit of social reality whilst carrying out your craft'. Philip has been producing and shooting a documentary, part-time, over the past two years.


Tracey Savage - Associate Producer
Tracey Savage is a freelance filmmaker in Sydney. She has worked across a number of fields both in Australia and New Zealand including Radio (Radio Announcer, Radio Drama, News Writer/Reader for Canwest 1996 - 2001), Theatre (Actor, Writer, Director, Producer 1996 - 2004), and in various Production roles for the BBC including Eastenders (2001). Tracey has also worked in Event Management, Business Development, and Education. She Co-produced a short documentary, ?Cadigal Land Today? (SHFA 2005), and graduated from a Metro Screen Documentary Scholarship in Sydney in 2007. During the scholarship she shot a large part of award winning short Documentary White Sound. Since graduating Tracey has worked solidly in the industry for Iris Pictures? 3 part series About Women (Production Assistant, 2008), Carolyn Johnson Films feature Son of a Lion (Marketing Coordinator 2008), and as Associate Producer for A Well-Founded Fear. Tracey?s always had a love for theatre, film, and a good yarn. Documentary making is her priority. She will now use her varied history to stand her in good stead in this field.