Festival Team
Festival Director
Ella McNeill
Assistant Director
Ariella Gery
Programming Manager
Sari Braithwaite
Acquisitions Manager
Shaun Larkin
Features Coordinator
Emily Dutton
Shorts Manager
Julian Buckeridge
Features Programmers
Cassandra Meehan, Alice Burgin, Britt Arthur
Shorts Programmers
Gina Rubiano, Hayley Inch, Lauren Valmadre
Speakers Coordinators
Kate O’Neill, India Farrar, Sofie Ham
Arts Coordinator
Samantha Mcculloch
Events Coordinator
Meg Hale
Operations Manager
Simon Hiler
Volunteer Coordinators
Jessica Drowley, Bek Spies, Georgina Isles
Gala Administrator
Beck Pope
Gala Volunteers
Giedre Miniotaite, Lenka Hadravova
Creative Direction & Graphic Design
Northside Creative
Graphic Designers
Saori Kajiwara, Nicole Albertson, Maris Janepanich
Web Designer
Adriana Bernardo
Web Developer
William Lay
Marketing Coordinators
Rachel Dale, Achala Datar, Anthea Didaskalou, Louise Ronzet
Ticketing Coordinator
Max Foskey
Program Writers & Editors
Alice Burgin, Hayley Inch, Susie Anderson, Megan McKeough
Festival Publicists
Asha Holmes Publicity
Video/ Photography
Greta Carroll, Gabriella Foreman, Karl Knapp
Trailer Music
Husky Gawenda
Animation
Glenn Hatton
Schools & Community Coordinator (SAC)
Linda Perugini
CineSeeds/ SAC Program Coordinator
Caitlin Kavanagh
CineSeeds/ SAC Programmers
Joey Demczuk, Tess Hamilton, Estela Pham, Mave Soekotjo
HRAFF Board
Evelyn Tadros, Naziath Mantoo, Caroline Gatenby, Yanlo Yue, Timothy Bertsch, Al Cossar, Thomas Kane, Jeanine Froomes
Legal Officers
Nathan Macdonald, Madeline Miller
HRAFF would like to acknowledge the special support of:
The Calvert Jones Foundation
Danielle and Daniel Besen Foundation.
HRAFF wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our Directors’ Circle donors:
Michael Cohn
Christiana Colquhoun
Sarah Gorman
Jannine Fraser
Thomas Kane
Evelyn Tadros
Ron Merkel QC
Phil Lane
William Allen
Ian Kennedy AM
Kelly Anderson
John Tatoulis
Hanneleh Salonen
Julian Burnside QC AO
Dinos Toumazos
The Cooper Foundation
Anthony Wood
Anonymous.
SPECIAL THANKS
Emily Chew, Franca Smarrelli, Kelly Anderson, Debbie Mortimer, Hugh Crosthwaite, Romani Benjamin, Awaz, Husky Gawenda, Long Play, Thomas Caldwell, Lisa Daniel, Kristy Matheson, Al Cossar, Judy Buchan, Dinos Toumazos, Julian Burnside QC AO, Kate Durham, Fem Belling and The Royal Swazi Spa, Clayton Utz Community Connect, Clayton Utz Foundation, Matthew Benetti, Marty Bortz, Emily Munroharrison, Linette Harriott, Liz Gill, Fairtrade Australia. Advisory Committee Helen Szoke, Hugh De Kretser, Kathy Bowlen, David Husy. Gala Committee Monique Morris (Chair), Dani Galvin, Jeanine Froomes, Abigail Hand, Margaret Bounader, Annabel Backwell CineSeeds Committee Jane Meinert, Katrina Holmes à Court, Christiana Colquhoun, Georgina Govenlock, Mave Soekotjo Gala Ambassadors Georgie Coombe-Tennant, Fiona McLeod SC, Celia Burrell AM, Sarah Scales, Mim Bartlett, Caroline Cox, Kate Richards, William Allen, Patrick Cody, Marc Cuming, Leanne Regan, Sarah Gorman, Kate Savage, Josh Altit, Rachel Gourlay, Pip Batten.
