Screen Direction

Hi. My name is MJ, an experienced director and DP specialising in both long and short form content. I have produced a wide variety of motion and stills photography with nearly a decade of expertise culminating in my largest project to date - a three part docuseries releasing on SBS in early 2025.

Taylor Film was established in Sydney, Australia in the year 2000 by designer & director Tom Taylor. Tom has been directing & producing video, animation & design work for leading Australian & international brands for the last twenty years. His award winning work can be found across free-to-air and cable television and in international film festivals. Tom’s first film ‘Dark Age of Light’ premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival, won the ‘Best Film’ & ‘Audience Favourite’ awards in the Australian Sci-Fi Film Festival as well as an Atom Award for Best Animated Film. The film was also invited into the Australian National Film & Sound Archive. Tom has worked extensively in Japan & has produced high end broadcast work for Toyota, Honda, Acura, Infiniti, Lexus, Sony & Konami. In Australia he has directed & produced design & vision for ABC, SBS, Foxtel & all of the free-to-air Australian TV channels. Tom has also produced various visual design work for live events including work for the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony & the 2015 Vivid Festival. Tom’s work also includes live event production. Tom created & developed the “Blue Mountains Film Festival & Yowie Awards” & “Culturescape Blue Mountains”- a festival of projected art from the Blue Mountains creative community. Tom is currently producing & directing his indie science fiction feature film “Last Ark”.

Samuel Bright is a curator, director, producer & founder of CLIPPED. His background is in post-production supervision as well as directing live concerts, music videos, branded content & curated / produced events including CLIPPED Music Video Festival (Vivid Sydney) & CLIPPED Karaoke at Parramatta Lanes, Bankstown Lunar New Year & Central Coast Lakes Festival. As an extension of these events, CLIPPED has partnered with councils as well as other festivals such as St Kilda Film Festival, Inner West Film Fest as well as delivered programming with NFSA (Canberra) ACMI (Melbourne), MCA (Sydney) & many more! In recent years CLIPPED has also toured programming to support the underrepresented creative community to areas such as Randwick, Geelong, Newcastle and Central Coast with assistance of council grant funding.

With a Master’s degree in Creative Industries from SAE and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, majoring in Media Arts and Production, I have gained comprehensive expertise in film and content creation across all stages of production, from pre-production to post-production. My academic journey was complemented by a 5-month placement at Studio 10, where I gained firsthand experience in the mechanics of live broadcast production. In addition, I have extensive hands-on experience in a university television studio, where I took on multiple roles including director, camera operator, floor manager, teleprompter operator, vision switcher, lighting technician, set designer, and sound recordist. I worked with both studio setups and field recording, utilising equipment such as shotgun microphones and clip-on mics. My experiences have also allowed me to demonstrate strong leadership and teamwork capabilities within various production teams.

Grant Markert is a multi award wining director & cinematographer. His experience spans international documentaries for the discovery channel to high end TV commercials.

Studio Goose is an independent production company, based in Hazelbrook, Australia. We have been involved in countless productions, helping to edit, write, direct, produce, and develop since 2005. In 2020 we expanded our story creation to book publishing. With this mountain of experience behind us, we have continued to grow, developing and producing our own work. In 2021 The Gamers 2037, a high-concept tween drama series, aired on 9Go! This is still just the start of our story to bring outstanding ideas and content to audiences around the world.

Rebecca Barry is a storyteller, filmmaker, and an adventurer at heart. She lives for exceptional stories that make us think again – like her award-winning series Back to Nature. In drama or documentary, as director or producer, her collaborative artistry reveals worlds known and unknown. In 2012, she founded Media Stockade with Madeleine Hetherton-Miau. She has created critically acclaimed shows for National Geographic, ABC, SBS, Network 10, Netflix, Hulu, BBC, Al Jazeera, and more. Her work screens at film festivals globally, including IDFA, HotDocs, FIFO, Sydney Film Festival, and Melbourne International Film Festival. Rebecca is a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research explored the dark grey zone of power and ethics in documentary consent processes. She is a certified Mental Health First Aider.

Caro's been in the business of creating content since well before content creation was even a phrase. Starting out in television in 2000, she worked in various production roles before setting up Juicy back in 2004. These days her love of story-telling can be found in directing, producing, editing (yes, a preditor!) travel writing and podcasting. While she has a particular affinity for travel and adventure production, over the years she’s helped produce numerous TVCs, videos and branded content for a range of clients including NPWS, Qantas, P&O Cruises, Disney Imagineering, Commonwealth Bank and the RTA. When she’s not creating work for others, she spends her time on her own adventures and volunteering for the SES coordinating search and rescue operations in the Blue Mountains or teaching traditional navigation skills. In 2021 she wrote and published the book, 'How to Navigate - the art of traditional map and compass navigation in an Australian context,' which is the navigation text book for NSW Police Rescue and the SES. You can find her outdoor adventure blog at: lotsafreshair.com and listen to her podcast, 'Rescued' on all podcast platforms.