JURY DUTY

Geoffrey Wright

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Geoffrey Wright is an Australian film director and screenwriter whose credits include his breakthrough 1992 film Romper Stomper starring Russell Crowe (which earned him AACTA nominations for Best Film and Best Director), and the acclaimed Metal Skin starring Ben Mendelsohn. Geoffrey co-created and directed a six-part television series sequel to Romper Stomper, which won the 2018 Logie Award for Outstanding Miniseries.

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David Michael Brown

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David Michael Brown is a British ex-pat living in Sydney. Working as a freelance writer he has contributed to Rolling Stone, GQ, TV Week, flicks.com.au, The Big Issue, SBS Movies, Cinema of the 70s, Cinema of the 80s, We Belong Dead and Empire Magazine Australia, where he was Senior Editor for almost seven years.

 
As well as freelancing, he works with Umbrella Entertainment and has contributed essays to their releases of Caligula, The Hitcher, Takashi Miike's Audition, The Raid, a box set of films by Korean director Lee Chang-dong and Coffy for which he interviewed director Jack Hill and Alejandro Amenábar’s Thesis and Open Your Eyes where he interviewed Eduardo Noriega.

He is presently writing a book on the film music of German electronic music pioneers Tangerine Dream and researching a project on Andy Warhol associate and filmmaker Paul Morrissey. A huge fan of the trashier side of cult films, his love of the movies of Russ Meyer, John Waters and Mario Bava shows no bounds: he proudly declares that Faster, Pussycat Kill! Kill! and Danger: Diabolik are his all-time favorite films and meeting David Lynch remains the biggest thrill of his professional career thus far.

 

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