Anna Broinowski
Anna Broinowski is a multiple AFI award winning director who has been making films since 1995.
Her documentaries include FORBIDDEN LIE$, HELEN’S WAR, SEXING THE LABEL and HELL BENTO!!, all of which screened theatrically. Awards include the 2007 Rome Film Fest ‘Cult’ Prize, the Al Jazeera International Film Festival ’Golden Award’, the San Francisco Film Festival Special Jury prize, the Russian Film Critics’ Best Feature Award, 3 Australian Film Institute Awards, 2 Australian Film Critics’ Awards, the 2008 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, and Best Director at Films des Femmes in France.
Anna published a bilingual Japanese/English play, The Gap in 1996 (Currency Press) and worked for a year as a project manager at the Australian Film Commission in 2001.
Following the successful US release of FORBIDDEN LIE$, which won the Writers’ Guild of American Best Non-fiction Screenplay award in 2008, Anna is now developing a slate of feature films. She is attached to direct the forthcoming satirical drama, PLEASE EXPLAIN, about Pauline Hanson.
Anna is currently completing her doctoral studies at Macquarie University.
John Lesko
John P. Lesko is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Saginaw Valley State University, USA. For the past two years, he taught in Oman as Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar at Al Buraimi College. He is the editor of the scholarly journal Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification, and his interest in plagiary follows postgraduate research on the dynamics of derivative writing which he conducted at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland from 1994-1997.
Debate Convener - Allen Clark
Allen Clark has championed ethical journalism for almost a quarter of a century, and his views on the subject are included along with the late Andrew Olle's in the University of Wollongong's postgraduate teaching material for the Masters in Journalism.
He's been a radio broadcaster, radio and TV journalist and political staffer in the Illawarra, most recently working as Network News Director for WIN Television where he was editorially responsible for the network's daily news output, providing advice, encouragement and correction where needed. It's his proud boast that WIN News breached the Television Industry Code of Practice on just one occasion during his watch, and that a technical breach arising from a misunderstanding between a Tasmanian viewer and the Tasmanian News Director.
Dinner Speaker - Dave Bloustien
Dr. Dave Bloustien http://www.bloustien.com/home.shtml is a comedian, writer and improvisor. He's part of the award-winning writing team on Good News Week, a 2009 Moosehead Award recipient and has performed everywhere from Enmore to Edinburgh.
"...intelligent and funny, laid back and engaging ... with the smarts to ensure he's covering ground few others have trodden" Chortle UK
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