BxFW Digital: January

JONAY GARCÍA has a degree in Art History and highlights in his filmography include Sirope de fresa, El secreto, and Ayer empezó todo. With Digital 104, a production company he co-founded, he has directed the short films Veneno and Las otras camas, selected to more than fifty international festivals and winner of more than ten awards. He has been director of photography for the feature film Modernos. Avant-garde theater in the Canary Islands; head of production in the short film Como siempre; and assistant director in the short film Ridícula.

WELBY INGS is a Professor in Design at Auckland University of Technology. He is an elected Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts, and a consultant to many international organisations on issues of creativity and learning. He is an award-winning designer, film-maker and playwright. His short films have been long-listed for the Oscars and selected in competition at over 50 international film festivals. Welby is also a long-time activist for LGBTQ rights. He was arrested numerous times during the 1980s law reform campaigns and he continues to advocate both in New Zealand and overseas for the rights of sexual minorities. In 2001 Welby was awarded the Prime Minister’s inaugural, Supreme Award for University Teaching Excellence and in 2013 the inaugural AUT University medal for his contributions to research, narrative design and education. Early in 2017 Welby published the best-selling non-fiction book Disobedient Teaching which resulted in substantial media coverage, and invitations to speak on the subject at numerous conferences and seminars in NZ and overseas.

RADHEYA JEGATHEVA is a Perth-based Australian filmmaker born in Johor, Malaysia, to parents of South Korean, Japanese, Indian, and Malaysian ancestry. He studied Commerce and Arts at Curtin University in Western Australia. Radheya’s films have been selected to 16 Academy Award Qualifying Festivals along with a nomination for the Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts (AACTA) Award, often described as Australia’s equivalent to the Oscars. Radheya’s films, which collectively have more than 900 official selections and 340 awards worldwide, have been played in all the world’s continents with the most difficult bastion breached when iRony played at Antarctica’s Davis Research Station.

DAVID MOYA pursued studies in Fiction Screenwriting at ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya). Over the years he has directed and edited short films, music videos, and commercials in Europe and Northern Africa for major clients such as BBC, Discovery Channel, The Telegraph, Disney Channel, Barclays, Jaguar, Top Gear, and Nissan, amongst others. His first short film, White, a comedy about white privilege, competed at the Brest European Short Film Festival (France) and the Purbek Film Festival (UK), among others. His short film The Silence surveys one of the darkest pages in Romanian history, the Pitesti Experiment.

MARY MUSOLINO is an Actor, Writer and Director living in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked both in front of and behind the camera on more than 30 short films. Mary has also featured as an actress in 3 feature films. Old Habits is her directorial debut.

DAVID NORRIS has a Master’s degree in Mass Media Writing from Sagrado Corazón University and has distinguished himself as a screenwriter and movie director. For the past fifteen years, David has worked in various facets of the world of communications and his six short films have had a positive impact on the local film scene. He is currently working on the development of his first feature film.

Still frame from iRony by Radheya Jegatheva reproudced by courtesy of the artist.

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