ABOUT
GreenScreen Film Fest was born out of isolation, driven by a team of talented creatives with a shared passion for the arts. The inaugural festival was beyond what they could have imagined and they now look forward to expanding the festival’s reach to see a new generation of filmmakers realise the full potential of the magic of Green Screen.
GSFF’s brief is to create a new interactive, digital space for all filmmakers to dream, produce, direct and thrive. The festival is dedicated to becoming a global conduit for local and international talent in an industry that is changing more rapidly than ever.
GSFF’s big picture goals include :
GreenScreen UPSTREAM : initiatives to ignite young creatives inclusive of gender, race, religion, age, sexuality.
GreenScreen CULTURAL ACTIVATION : encourage Government and other groups to supply community Green Screens to develop cultural precincts.
GreenScreen PAY IT FORWARD : putting back into the film industry by promoting and championing causes that matter and make a difference to fellow creatives.
GSFF2 will have a focus on funding a program that will supply Green Screens and equipment to encourage the indigenous community in Western Australia to create and tell their stories. As part of our diverse curation of judges for each festival, keep an eye out for some local high-profile artists (actors, directors, producers) on the panel.
With a founding hub in Perth, Western Australia, we are the only short film festival, where Green Screen technology is front and centre, accessible to all, encouraging new and emerging talent in the film industry.
MEET THE GSFF TEAM
JODIE MANNING
LOVER OF STORY AND FESTIVAL LEADER
Jodie loves to lead and collaborate with dynamic creatives to make a difference in the arts space.
A writer and creative at heart, Jodie has had a wide-reaching career as a senior corporate lawyer, event director, publicist and journalist.
She has worked across Australia in the corporate, Government and not-for-profit sphere, specialising in arts management and disability services reform.
Applying her unique strategic ability to grow events, ideas and people, she has taken a number of grassroots organisations, extending their reach, kudos and foothold.
GreenScreen Film Fest is the first company she’s helped create from conception. With a carefully curated ‘dream team’ by her side, Jodie can’t wait to turn GreenScreen Film Fest into a premier global film festival.
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TALIA TEOH
DREAM ALCHEMIST AND DESIGNER-AT-LARGE
Lover of all things fabulous, Talia has a penchant for design, social media and cutting-edge events.
With over 20 years’ experience as a designer and associate at boutique firms, she has worked across countless workplace, residential and public architecture projects.
Well-connected in the creative community (with a natural favouritism for cultural hotspot, Fremantle!) Talia has managed events from an intimate 20 to a logistically challenging 1000. She’s been Treasurer to President for an array of not-for-profits in the arts, sport and education space.
Her ever-growing list of creative pursuits includes photography, painting, jewellery making, macrame, paper folding – in fact, anything she can wave her magic wand over to be more aesthetically pleasing!
Think Marie Kondo meets Daphne Guinness.
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SARAH DE ROZARIO
MASTER OF COIN AND NOT-F0R-PROFIT HEART
Sarah loves the numbers, loves a world-famous museum and loves to run!
As a CPA and member of Women on Boards, Sarah has over 25 years of experience in Senior Finance Roles in Australia, the UK, Scandinavia and the Middle East -from her dream job working for the International Cricket Council, to her more recent Board roles with, Special Olympics WA, ICC Development Committee, Hockey WA, International Table Tennis Federation-Para and Fishability.
Sarah enjoys helping pave the way to bring great ideas to life.
Specialising in corporate governance, she has a deep understanding and passion for not-for-profits and ‘putting back’ into community.
She has also completed a Marathon, a few Half Marathons, is a regular swimmer and a lover of art – think Gaudi, MOMA NY, Musee’ Picasso, Tate Modern and Moderna & Vasa Museet!
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TINA BROTHERS
SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH GLOBAL EYES
An innovator and ideas person, Tina’s 'can do' attitude is fixed on getting GreenScreen Film Fest into all the right spaces.
She has worked around Australia, London, New York, South Korea and rubbed shoulders with some of the world's biggest thinkers and entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
With her 20-year background in business building, investment banking, plus ten years in the not-for-profit and women’s leadership space – she can’t wait to throw more of her big picture thinking to grow the world’s only Green Screen Film Festival.
Specialising in photographic art, you’ll also find Tina dabbling in Green Screen – check out our hero video to see if you can spot her whimsical, dark forest magic!
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OLIVIA DAVIES
CONNECTING COMMUNITY
Liv is an emerging factual filmmaker with a background in sociological academic research and youth support work. With an Arts-Business Degree majoring in Journalism, Media and Communications, a Doctorate in Philosophy and a string of Awards and Scholarships under her belt, she’s passionate about animal foster care, the environment, and her work in the disability space.
After a stint in 2020 in Barcelona, Spain - Liv joined GSFF in October 2021 to film in the remote Kandiwal Community, 850km from her then home in Broome. She now divides her time working for local Production Companies and as GSFF’s Community Engagement Officer. Liv is dedicated to seeing GSFF’s Big Picture Initiatives ignite young creatives and activate cultural precincts around the world!
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SANNE BUTTERFIELD
DIGITAL MARKETING DYNAMO
A bilingual Dutch Kiwi who loves to ride her bike around the Swan River, Sanne lives and breathes Digital Marketing and Communications.
Her career started off in Marketing and Corporate Communications in The Netherlands and after ten years in Capetown and Auckland working for a number of high end creative agencies, Sanne now calls East Fremantle her forever home.
Sanne’s focus is on creating digital marketing solutions to elevate businesses to the next level.
When Sanne is not working for her start-up SANA Creative Marketing you can find her in the GreenScreen Film Fest Studio glued to her MacBook while sipping some liquorice tea.
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GSFF FILM CHAMPIONS
OLIVER DEAR
CHROMA-KEY NINJA WITH FLAIR
He’s the editor with the goods. What more can we say! Quiet but deadly, his fingers work magic over the keys. He can drop Alice down a rabbit hole, make Superman fly, turn an everyday dinner jacket into Willy Wonka colour magic.
Compositing, tracking, rotoscoping, keying, modelling, texturing, simulation and more. He’s the Master of Editing - the Overlay, Overlord - a Post-Production King – making worlds, locations, shapes collide - bringing creative vision to life.
That final space, where story and rushes are transformed, where the Green Screen becomes your location chameleon!
GIACOMO GROPPOLI
ROUSING THE YOUNG FILMMAKER TROUPE
With a Notre Dame Uni degree majoring in Theatre and Film Production, and in his first year at the WA Screen Academy (Masters of Directing), Giacomo brings his passion and filmmaking heart to spread the word to young filmmakers.
WA Screen Academy operates in partnership with the WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and offers one of Australia’s most intensive, advanced-level training programs in screen production. Graduates all go on to work in Australia’s film industry and beyond.
We can't wait to see the young filmmakers we can inspire with Giacomo’s help.
BEN MATEI_FILM DIRECTOR
GSFF EMERGING FILMMAKER AMBASSADOR
Ben made teapots fly and space-time vortexes open in his GreenScreen Film Fest 2020 Winning Film, Tea and Hot Flushes.
With a passion for filmmaking and SFX, Ben and Jenny Tkaz’s Never Alone was one of only 16 short films - out of 1800 applicants across Australia - produced in just six weeks during the pandemic as part of Epic Games and ScreenWest’s Unreal Engine Short Film Challenge.
With our sights set on a tech partnership, this will be an exciting space to watch as we work with Ben to weave some SFX magic.