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The 2011 Blue Mountains Film Festival Judging Panel
 
Travis Conneeley
David Webster
Jane Cameron
Josef Ber
Tiriel Mora

FOXTEL

Creative Director

Ambience Entertainment

Creative Director

Cameron's Management and The Cameron Creswell Agency

Company Director

Actor

"Rush" "Junction Boys"

Actor

"The Castle " "Frontline"

For over 15 years, Travis has been passionately tampering with Australian television.

At the age of 19, Travis started his career with the Seven Network as the youngest on-air promotions producer ever, quickly progressing to producing program launch campaigns and from 1999 produced and directed many of the networks branding executions.

Some industry awards later, in 2004, Travis joined FOXTEL as Creative Director of the playful No.1 subscription channel FOX8, soon after adding the Bio Channel and eventually a total of 9 channel brands to his portfolio. Travis is now the Creative Director of FOXTEL, where he continues to provide creative leadership throughout the company.


In addition to his passion for brand and marketing, Travis also enjoys dabbling in production, having executive produced three live Mardi Gras telecasts, written and remixed music releases, while also producing and presenting sessions to industry peers at conferences. Travis is the current chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Promax|BDA Organisation, the local arm of the World Promax and Broadcast Design Association group.

Recognition:
Over the years, Travis has received 13 World Promax Awards, 3 Broadcast Design Awards, 3 New York Festivals Awards, 17 Promax Australia and New Zealand Awards and 3 ASTRA Awards. He was also placed among the 'top 20 in the world' in the inaugural Hollywood Reporter 'Next Generation of International Television: Class of 2009' nominations.


In 1991 David established Ambience Entertainment in partnership with Matthew Street. Ambience originally offered post production, design and 3D animation services to the advertising and broadcast industries.

Ambience later transformed into a production company and was acquired by Omnilab Media in 2005. Since 2005 David has been directing the 3D animated series Erky Perky of which there were 78 episodes produced across 3 series. Erky Perky ran on the 7 Network, YTV in Canada and POP TV in the UK before being acquired by the ABC in Australia .

In 2009 David wrote and directed a 3D animated short film titled HOG that was financed by Screen Australia .

David is currently working on Figaro Pho with Luke Jurevicius for the ABC

Jane Cameron started working professionally in theatre, television and film in 1970. She worked as a performer and casting director in Australia & then went to London to work on The Rocky Horror Picture Show (20th Century Fox) and then The Rocky Horror Show for its Broadway season. She worked for a short time at The Environmental Liaison Centre in Nairobi and then returned to Australia.

In 1976 she formed Cameron's Management in partnership with Richard Harper representing a small number of performers and creative and fashion people. The agency quickly grew and diversified.

In 1991 the creative division of the agency merged with Rosemary Creswell Publications and became The Cameron Creswell Agency, adding book authors to Cameron's original list of screen & theatre writers and directors of film, theatre & television. The agency retained its representation of actors under the name of Cameron's Management.

She has been active for many years in defence of freedoms of expression, has been a supporter of Crocfest and Crocfest Writers Camps, is a past Board Member of Railway Street Theatre Company, is currently on the Board of ASDACS and is a member of various professional organisations.

Josef Ber is a NIDA graduate who has been consistently working in Theatre, Film and Television for 20 years.


Josef recently appeared as a regular cast member on the critically acclaimed TV show RUSH on network 10,
he has also appeared in East West 101, McLeods Daughters, Rescue:Special Ops, The Surgeon, Love My Way, Wlidside, to name a few. His film credits include NED, Powderburn and The Junction Boys


Josef has performed in theatre productions for companies such as Company B Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare, Ensemble Theatre, and more.

Josef has done numerous radio dramas for the ABC and he also toured the country in the Gordon/Frost production of Grease when he was a teenager.

 

 

 

Tiriel Mora is an Australian television and film actor. He is the son of Melbourne artist Mirka Mora and art dealer Georges Mora.

Tiriel is probably best known for his role as Martin De Stasio in the series Frontline, and as lawyer Dennis Denuto in The Castle.

Tiriel's television work includes roles in Rake, Underbelly, All Saints, City Homicide, The Secret Life of Us, The Surgeons, The Cooks, Seachange, Dogwoman, F.A.R.S.C.A.P.E, Search for Treasure Island and Grass Roots. He has also appeared in the telemovies Heroes’ Mountain, Hell Has Harbour Views, and recently appeared as Rene Rivkin in A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne

His film roles include The Castle, Happy Feet, Crocodile Dundee in LA, Dead End, King Kong, The Parlour, Garage Days, Queen of the Damned, The Elixir and The Inheritance and many more.

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