The team at St Kilda Films is led by Mark Poole and Lisa French.
Mark has been a writer, director and producer on numerous projects in both film and television. He has written and/or directed many hours of drama including the feature A Single Life, which won an AFI Award and was distributed to more than 50 territories around the world. It also screened on the BBC and the ABC. Mark holds a PhD in creativity in screenwriting from La Trobe University.
Mark has worked at ABC TV as producer, director, series producer and writer. He has produced and directed numerous documentaries and short films, including Fearless about playwright Julia Britton.
Mark is the head of the Australian Directors’ Guild, Victoria. He was previously National Vice President of the Australian Writers’ Guild.
Professor Lisa French works for St Kilda Films as a producer, director and writer. Lisa is Dean of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
Lisa writes extensively about women in film and television and gender matters, and was a founding member of the Gender Matters taskforce at Screen Australia. Lisa wrote the book The Female Gaze in Documentary Film, published by Palgrave.
Mark and Lisa produced the short film The Female Gaze that screened to numerous film festivals and won an award at the Busan International Film Festival. They also produced an iPad version of their history of the Australian Film Institute (AACTA), Shining a Light: 50 Years of the AFI, available on iTunes.
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