it all began: 3/5/49, brisbane, australia

education: carmel college, oxford, england

completed graduate studies: ba fine arts, city & guilds, london / dip. ed. manchester regional college of art / cert lV in developing and delivering training

producer / director: leslie wand productions, blandford, australia ( 2001 - )

relocated to small farm in hunter valley. established facilities to handle a variety of video, web, and photographic productions. working as independent producer for clients such as, CSIRO, tribal voice, tattoo media, newcastle art gallery, moree regional art gallery, murrurundi shire council, upper hunter tourism, upper hunter councils, tamworth art gallery, global gossip, etc., retained as on line editor for career channel. teaching video and multimedia production and photoshop for various government and local education organizations. local stringer for abc tv and sirecam.

designing, creating and maintaining websites, and producing interactive cd / dvd's for tafe and a diverse variety of businesses, incl; wineries, environmental awareness groups, artists, software developer, etc.

produced and directed:

king of the ranges
 (80min) 2010 stockmans challenge - dvd feature
land & landscape
(40 min) artist floor talk - tamworth regional gallery
hacc
(20min) introduction to home and community care services - gosford city council
(12 min) documentary - maitland regional art gallery
momentum
 (6 min) promotional & (12min) educational - tamworth regional gallery
undercurrent
 (8 min) funding application for art exhibition
a night (or two) at the opera
 (55 min) pilot for proposed documentary
(50 min) documenting major art installation - upper hunter councils
get lost
(6min) promotional video for upper hunter tourism
(30 min) documentary and hybrid dvd
king of the ranges
 (65min) 2005 stockmans challenge - dvd feature
(20 min) documentary and hybrid dvd
(75min) 2004 stockmans challenge - dvd feature
sustainability
(3 x 20min) educational on sustainability - tafe outreach

 

managing director and senior editor / cameraman: rush editing p/l, sydney, australia (90 - 2001)

conceived, set-up, and managed professional tv, video production and post production facility.

clients included: abc tv, abbots, adi, agl, alfa romeo, amp, asx, attorney-general’s office, big pictures (imax), career channel, colliers jardine, csi, csl, ces, dec, gio, institute of accountants, institute of engineers, lisa ho, loram, macquarie medical, masterfoods, media associates, mount isa mines, mount morgan mines, murdoch media, national rail, nsw fire brigade, nsw treasury, norman swan communications, peter luck productions, porsche, pzifer, readers digest, rem theatre, saab, sbs tv, silver and ballard, smith kline beecham, tafe, thomson marconi, workcover, and many more corporate and independent producers.

projects include (award winning) documentaries, corporate, trainers, shorts, tvc's., etc.,

official sbeta tester for inscriber software, and drastic technologies ddrs.

HQ magazine article (1991) summing up my israeli army experiences.

 

technical director, senior editor, in-house camera operator: videosonic international, tel aviv, israel (1989 - 85)

experience covered assessing, installing and operation of on line broadcast suites, supervision and training of staff. in house on / off line editor, director and cameraman.

clients included: israeli television, israel defence forces, ibm, coca cola, israeli labour party, scitex, and other international corporations such as banks and multi-nationals.

wrote regular column on art criticism for national newspaper .

taught video production for communications department of tel aviv university. 


editor and cameraman: globus and golan studios, tel aviv, israel (1985 - 83)

main duties included off and on line editing, camera operations in broadcast eng / efp environments.

in house 'stringer' for international networks (bbc, nbc, abc, german and japanese tv, etc.,).

projects included studio production (drama and light entertainment), current affairs and news.

 

production assistant: cannon films, tel aviv, israel (1981-83)

outside broadcast vision mixing, location sound, studio camera operation, and general dogs body.

liaison officer for visiting international film and tv news crews

 

technical director: kibbutz revvim, negev desert, israel (1981-80)

operated and oversaw all technical aspects of running a 750 seat theatre.

set-up and supervised multi track audio recording studio.

 

technical director: the tape plant, manchester, england (1980-75)

established and ran video facilities for audio recording facility

 

assistant audio engineer and chief tea maker: decca studios, london, england (1970-73)

apprenticed in most aspects of audio recording, (and tea making).

 

 

technical and operational video equipment experience

operation and basic maintenance of sony professional vtr’s, cameras, etc.

extensive linear editing experience using sony, cmx, ampex and related equipment along with broadcast vision mixers, dve’s, character generators, etc.

non linear experience with various nle systems (media 100, avid, sony vegas, etc.,) and sony edit station 7 (hybrid nle)

 

other stuff

from 1983 to 87, co-owned and directed two art galleries, one specialising in contemporary fine art prints, the other in art posters and framing

trained and served in the israeli army (need a tank driver?)

had articles and photographs published in a number of magazines on a diverse range of topics, such as; art and photography, video technology and production, the israeli army, etc., have written three (as yet unpublished) novels.

computer literate and familiar with many software packages.,

enjoy bush walking, reading, writing, carpentry, and watching good television (you know why it's called a medium? cause it's rare to find anything well-done).

non-smoker, non-drinker, but still remember how to have fun..