Carla Cametti PD

Carla Cametti PD

NEW 6 PART DRAMA SERIES
Starts January 7 at 8.30pm
Get set for a bold new direction in local drama with Carla Cametti PD, a sizzling six-part series starting January 8 at 8.30pm on SBS.

Sassy, sexy and determined, Carla Cametti has the looks and street smarts to get what she wants. But she also has a personal life that's rife with drama!

There's her dad Leo who runs the family restaurant but still harbours dreams of being an Opera singer. Her mum Angela who loves to interfere with her love life, her best friend Lisa who is planning the wedding of the year while sleeping around, and her uncle Tony whose dark secrets are starting to surface.

On top of that Carla must also contend with ex-boyfriend Matt who the police believe is criminal, her best friend's dad Joe who is under police surveillance and her mate Georgina, a widow at thirty and hell bent on revenge.

Carla loves them all. The only problem is that one of them is trying to kill her, but which one?

Detective Senior Sergeant Gandolfi is determined to find out. A suave policeman seconded to Melbourne to curb its gangland activity, Gandolfi struts into Carla's life and offers to shield her from the bullets. How can a girl refuse?

The enchanting Diana Glenn (Satisfaction, Love My Way) and Vince Colosimo (Underbelly) lead a stellar ensemble cast including Robert Mammone, Sullivan Stapleton and Nicole Da Silva in this sizzling crime drama series.

Episode 1: To Have and to Hold
Thursday January 8 at 8.30pm
Carla attends the funeral of Jack Kavel, an old friend's husband. At the wake, his widow Georgina asks her to find out who killed her husband. When Carla tells her friend that murder is way too heavy for her, Georgina backs off - but little do either of them know that five days earlier, Carla was almost a witness to Jack's abduction.

In the course of investigating an accident insurance scam for a client, Fleur, Carla tracks down Brad a DJ at a private club the same club Jack was kidnapped from. Carla is convinced that Brad is scamming her client but when she takes Fleur back to the club to confront him, she soon discovers that her client has a secret of her own and the gun Fleur's carrying in her bag is meant as revenge against her runaway husband… Brad who has recently confessed he was gay.

As if that's not enough, Carla's connections to Jack Kavel's death arouse the suspicions of the annoyingly sexy Detective Luke Gandolfi. Add a crazy gunman with Carla in his sights, an uncle with a secret, and a soon to be married best friend who needs Carla to cover up for her infidelities - Carla soon realises that family issues are indeed a dangerous business.

Episode 2: For Better For Worse
Thursday January 15 at 8.30pm
Carla's investigation of missing money at the local soccer club is touched by the shadow of Jack Kavel, the dead man recently found dumped in the nets. To make matters worse, her old lover Matt coaches the local team and wherever she turns, there he is. As she tries to connect the money and the body, she discovers that the best player at the club has a load of new stuff he couldn't possibly afford - looks like she's got her man, but is there more to the story?

Using her local knowledge and a solid dose of intuition, Carla finds the thief - but in the most unlikely place. Meanwhile she gets a lead on her shooter and goes after him. Face to face with the man who tried to kill her, Carla begins to regret her impetuous behaviour - luckily the venue is too public for the criminal to do her any harm. Carla manages to escape and after calling Gandolfi she hides in waiting for him to arrive and make the arrest. But Gandolfi is too late someone has already got to the would-be killer and shot him dead before they can find out who wants Carla dead and why.

Episode 3: For Richer For Poorer
Thursday January 22 at 8.30pm
Carla is hired by a society princess to find out who stole her precious jewels. Sounds like a straight forward job for a change, especially when she seems surrounded by death in the rest of her life. All she has to do is attend parties, look great and indulge in a bit of gossip. Right? Wrong.

Meanwhile her investigations focus on Matt's girlfriend Amanda, a lawyer with something to prove, a large criminal client list and Carla's best chance at discovering who ordered the hit on her. But Amanda's a tougher nut than that and Carla is left with nothing.

As if the day couldn't get any worse, to Carla's dismay her mother Angela invites Gandolfi over for family dinner. When he manages to face her family's inquisition with good grace and humour, Carla's prepared to cut him some slack - he might be all right after all.

Episode 4: In Sickness and in Health
Thursday January 29 at 8.30pm
Hotdog sales and standover men go hand in hand in nightclub land. But when Carla attempts to help out a client suffering at the hands of some heavy competition, she also finds out that the cops don't mind the occasional hotdog, along with their share of standover money.

With a dirty cop on her radar, Carla comes up with evidence of an arson attack, but when she tries to investigate, it simply results in her client being attacked. But it's not just the cops with sauce on their fingers…. Carla's best friend Lisa is finally caught with the wrong man in her bed a week out from her wedding and Gandolfi arrests Matt for the killing of Carla's shooter - Carla's professional life collides head on with her love life.

Episode 5:Love Honour and Cherish
Thursday February 5 at 8.30pm
Who would have thought a six year old's birthday party could cause so much grief? When Carla arrives and discovers her niece sobbing into her fairy floss, she decides to find out why her nieces' best friend Gigi won't come to the little girl's party.

What she discovers are serious brawls over property development, violence as a negotiation tool and her uncle Tony's involvement in underworld business.

Gandolfi tries to get Matt to talk but he has shut down - he's already said too much and knows he's in too deep for Gandolfi to help him. Using a clue from Matt, Carla finally discovers who ordered the hit on both her and Jack, but in doing so becomes the sole witness to a third crime which puts her life in even more danger.

Episode 6: Til death do us Part
Thursday February 12 at 8.30pm
Lisa's wedding is back on - just. But celebrations get off to a shaky start when Gandolfi raids Joe Testro's house on the morning of the ceremony. As Carla attempts to perform her duties as head bridesmaid, she must also protect herself.

Before the day is done Leo will woo Angela with a romantic song, Lisa will privately betray and publicly embarrass her father, Gandolfi and Matt will finally come to blows, Teresa will meet Tony's lover Brad and Carla will finally find the final piece of evidence she needs to nail the person who is trying to kill her, but will she make it out alive.

Cast:

CARLA CAMETTI:
knows her Comme De Garcon from her Issey Miyake. She also knows a Ruger from a Smith and Wesson. It's her line of work and as a female Private Detective she's a powerful mix of perfume and gunpowder.

Carla's greatest asset is the one thing that often threatens to bring her undone: her willingness to go where angels fear to tread. She's tried just about every job, travelled around the world and explored who she is. Quietly self-assured, Carla has discovered life is what you make it and she's taking her own by the horns. Not that being a Private Detective brings accolades from those close to her. Her mother thinks she's trying to give her a nervous breakdown, her best friend thinks she's underselling herself, and her various aunts and uncles are forever inquiring if she's still unemployed.

But when Luciano Gandolfi wanders into her life, she finds someone who understands. Only problem is his very appearance disturbs her with all things carnal. Worse still, he's Italian. But if she could just get over her feelings that he's arrogant, probably an oversexed philanderer and a father figure waiting to happen, she just might find true love.

DIANA GLENN: (Carla Cametti)
Glenn began her professional acting career in her hometown of Melbourne in the early nineties and is acknowledged as one of Australia's most sought-after young actors. Glenn moved to Sydney in 1999 where she worked steadily before being cast as a series regular in the cult TV series The Secret Life of Us. Around this time she was also commissioned by Arena TV to write and perform a series of 15-minute comedy sketches based on her project The Girls. In 2003 she secured a role in the Cate Shortland directed feature More than Scarlet, before being cast as one of the leads in the 50 minute movie Lennie Cahill Shoots Through for director Paul Oliver. Her performance brought her to the attention of director Anna Reeves who cast her in the lead female role for her feature The Oyster Farmer, for which Glenn won the Best Actress Award at the St Tropez Film Festival. Glenn has also starred in several key television productions including Last Man Standing, Canal Road and The Elephant Princess.. Most recently Glenn took centre stage in the big-screen adventure thriller Black Water, a terrifying tale of survival set amidst the swamps of Northern Australia, and starred as the street-smart 'Chloe' in the controversial television series Satisfaction - season 1 and 2.

DETECTIVE SENIOR SERGEANT LUCIANO GANDOLFI:
has been seconded from Sydney to set-up the Jaguar Taskforce to investigate Melbourne gangland activity. Gandolfi has experienced enough to know most people are capable of both good and bad in the extreme. Prone to seeing the irony in everything, he uses his black sense of humour to provoke and expose. Quick with a comeback and happy to disagree, Gandolfi's main problem is that he's ridiculously smart and bored by the conventional thinking of others. He prefers working on his own simply because his lateral thinking is often misunderstood and he's not keen on explaining himself. Gandolfi is an excellent detective, his insight leading to an enviable list of arrests.

Some think he's arrogant, others see his cheekiness as a defence. Either way, Gandolfi's a walking, talking provocation. Leaving behind a failed romance with a woman who felt left in the dust of his burgeoning career, Gandolfi's not completely turned off the idea of another long-term relationship. And that's a distinct possibility from the moment he sets eyes on Carla. Only problem is she's too close to the case. No matter how much he's attracted to her (a lot) he can't act on his feelings. Well…not until the time is right…

VINCE COLOSIMO: (Detective Senior Sergeant Luciano Gandolfi)
Since graduating from Victorian College of the Arts in 1987, Colosimo has established himself as one of Australia's most celebrated actors with an impressive slate of leading roles in both film and television. Feature film credits include the vampire thriller Daybreakers, in which he starred opposite Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke, director Peter Cataneo's (The Full Monty) Opal Dream, director Andrew Dominik's Chopper and Ray Lawrence's acclaimed ensemble drama Lantana, for which Colosimo won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Colosimo also received an AFI nomination for Best Actor for his role in Tony Ayres' Walking on Water, a performance which earned him the Empire Award for Best Australian Actor. Other big screen outings include The Hard Word (with Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths), The Nugget, Take Away director Ridley Scott's soon-to-be released Body of Lies, in which he co-stars with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.

Colosimo initially caught the public's attention in director Michael Pattinson's feature Moving Out, for which he received his first AFI nomination and was subsequently named Best New Talent by the Sydney Film Critics Circle. He re-teamed with Pattinson on Street Hero.

His television portfolio includes the top-rating Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us, along with After the Deluge, Secret Bridesmaid's Business, MDA, Two Twisted and most recently Nine Network's hit drama Underbelly, in which he starred as 'Alphonse Gangitano.' He has also appeared on US television in The Practice and on the crime series Without a Trace as well as the US blockbuster, Body of Lies, where he starred opposite Leonardo Dicaprio.

LISA TESTRO
is Carla's best friend, flat mate and daughter of the local crime boss. Lisa seems to have it all. Brought up in a loving Italian family, sent to good schools, Law at Melbourne University, straight into a well paid job at a respected law firm and engaged to an equally high achiever, it seems strange that on the eve of her nuptials she decides to take a lover. Unless you know her.

Lisa and Carla have been friends since childhood and it's Carla she turns to when her world starts to wobble, particularly since the recent death of her beloved mother. Yes, she's bright, hard working, honest, fun but she is also terribly confused. Unlike Carla, Lisa has never explored the idea of who she is or what she wants, she was certain from ten years of age and she's never looked back.

And she sees her small acts of craziness as blips on an otherwise perfect horizon, until their frequency and her recklessness increases. Because despite all the good schools, the lovely home and endless opportunities, as daughter of a major crime boss, Lisa has spent her life in silent fear and loathing, none of which is of her own making.

NICOLE DA SILVA (Lisa Testro)
Sydney-based Nicole Da Silva graduated from University of Western Sydney, Theatre Nepean in 2003 with a Bachelor of Performance before heading overseas to further her studies at the London Academy of Film, TV and Radio

Since graduating Da Silva has performed in several stage productions including The Subtle Art of Flirting, Shorter and Sweeter, A Life in the Theatre, Paris in Hell and Emergence.

She has also had guest appearances in the long-running Australian drama shows, Home and Away and All Saints and in 2006 starred in Southern Star's 8-part series Dangerous, alongside Khan Chittendon and Brooke Satchwell, which she followed, in 2007 with a role in SBS Television's acclaimed drama-series EAST WEST 101. In 2007 Da Silva starred in the big-screen feature, The List, directed by actor/writer Joel Edgerton.

TONY CAMETTI
is Carla's uncle and Leo's younger brother. He is a complicated man with many secrets. On the surface he's got a wife, three children and lives in a nice, well appointed house, but underneath he's a leading figure in the Melbourne underworld - and underneath that lies an even deeper secret - he's bi-sexual - and well and truly 'in the closet'. Containing his sexual persuasion means he bubbles with a constant frustration and his propensity for violent outbursts is well known by his family but not at all understood.

Tony sees his niece Carla as a troublemaker and is constantly urging his brother Leo to keep her under control. But the fact he ignores his requests is, to Tony, just another example of Leo lacking balls. With all his hidden agendas, you'd expect Tony to be a shadowy figure in the Cametti clan but if there's ever a family stoush, you can bet Tony's the one stirring the pot and it's left to his mother to hose him down. And yet - he's loyal to the end - to family and friends. But let's just it's better to be on his side than against him.

ROBERT MAMMONE (Tony Cametti)
Over the past 20 years, Mammone has built an enviable career as a respected actor both in Australia and abroad. He has appeared in several international feature films, including the Matrix Series with Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishbourne, The Great Raid with Benjamin Bratt and Joseph Fiennes, Salem's Lot with Rob Lowe and Donald Sutherland, Vertical Limit directed by Martin Campbell, Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes, and the 2007 action thriller The Condemned. Closer to home, he starred alongside Susie Porter in director Sandra Sciberras' romantic feature Caterpillar Wish, as well as the television drama Blackjack: At the Gates and the hit Foxtel series Dangerous.

Mammone's most recent TV credits include The Starter Wife, in which he co-starred with Debra Messing and Miranda Otto, Nine Network's Underbelly and Satisfaction.

JOE TESTRO
flaunts himself around town as a well-respected member of Melbourne society, but not everyone knows he is in fact the most powerful and feared member of a loosely connected crew of Melbourne underworld criminals.

Having spent the first eight years of his childhood in southern Italy, which never truly recovered from the war, he's seen the dirt-poor existence of the peasants and therefore has lofty aspirations for himself and his family; made all the more imperative since the premature death of his adored and devoted wife Marisa. He's still riding his grief and some days it gets the better of him, particularly as he helps plan his only daughter Lisa's wedding. An imposing man, Joe is difficult to overlook and he has a bevy of female admirers, including Carla's mother, Angela.

But one should never underestimate Joe. He is a scary, troubled, deeply violent man whose niceties are genuinely only skin deep. For all his loyalty to family and contributions to high profile charities, this is a man with a very dark side…one that, if you want to stay alive, it's better never to have seen.

TONY POLI (Joe Testro)
A seasoned veteran of stage and television, Poli graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1985 and since that time, has barely, in an acting sense, paused for breath.

A love of theatre has led him to star in numerous stage shows and as such his impressive theatrical resume includes productions for Melbourne Theatre Company (Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It), Sydney Theatre Company (Dr Faustus, Siren, Pentecost, The White Devil NY Tour, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Removalists)Belvoir Street Theatre (Little Like Drowning) and State Theatre Company of South Australia (The Club, Exotic Pleasures, Theatre of Image, The Taming of the Shrew).

Over the past two decades Poli has further demonstrated his versatility with a diverse slate of television performances which encompass Fields of Fire II, Acropolis Now, Operation Phoenix, G.P., Empassy, Secrets, Water Rates, Murder Call, Home and Away and Stingers.

LEO CAMETTI
is Carla's beloved father. Happily married to his wife Angela since the age of twenty, Leo still feels lust for her and will do anything to make her happy; except side with her when it comes to the direction of Carla's life. As the oldest son, inheriting the family restaurant meant casting aside his greatest love - opera singing. Frequently at the end of a busy day in the restaurant, he can be found alone and singing, summoning up the spirit of Don Giovanni. But that's not to say he isn't dedicated to the family business; it's what keeps him in touch with the neighbourhood and earns him respect.

ALFREDO MALABELLO (Leo Cametti)
Perth-based Alfredo Malabello makes his television debut as Leo Cametti, Carla's gentle, peace-loving father in Carla Cametti PD.

Born into an Italian family in Adelaide, Malabello has a background as a singer/musician and in 1981 joined The Rhythms, a new-wave punk band who toured the east coast of Australia supporting acts such as Midnight Oil, Hunters and Collectors, INXS, Cold Chisel, Australian Crawl, UB40, Divinyls, Mental as Anything and The Cure over a period of three years.

Blessed with a beautiful singing voice, Malabello has performed in bars and clubs around the world, from Queensland's Jupiter's Casino and Victoria's Crown Casino, to as far afield as New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Berlin, Dusselldorf, Dresden, St Moritz, Oslo, Milan and Tokyo. Additionally, Malabello has performed at private parties for a plethora of figures from the world of business and entertainment including Alan Bond, Laurie Connell, Rose Hancock, Ivan Lendl, Michael Bolton, Princess Margaret, The Royal Family of Monaco, various Australian Prime Ministers and Premiers, Ivana Trump, Jack Nasser CEO of Ford worldwide and many more too numerous to list.

Malabello also works as a music producer recording singer songwriters, bands and composing music scores for short films and documentaries. In the last two years he has scored a total of 30 short films and documentaries and in 2006 was nominated at the 2006 WA Screen Awards for Best Original Film Score. In 2008 Malabello produced La Gioia Della Fede (The Joy of Faith), a collection of original Italian songs and spoken poems of faith, which was released through Colossal Records Australia.

ANGELA CAMETTI,
Carla's mother, thinks that it's important to feel sexy. Mindful of her once perfect but now aging assets, Angela is determined to keep herself looking good. She also dreams of escaping the restaurant and leading a more adventurous life. She'd really like Carla to give up being a Private Detective, finish her university degree, get a nice job and settle down. But on closer inspection, it's obvious Angela is more than a little envious of the freedom Carla enjoys, for the truth is, Angela wishes she'd made some very different choices in her life.

DINA PANOZZO (Angela Cametti)
A seasoned performer, the vivacious Panozzo has a lengthy list of stage credits which have seen her take lead roles with Adelaide Theatre Group, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Belvoir Street Theatre, Playbox and Melbourne Theatre Company in productions such As A Winter's Tale, Jack the Ripper, Don't Stand on Ceremony, IL Magnifico, Richard III A Touch of Silk, Peter Pan, Dreams in an Empty City, A Little Like Drowning, The Garden of Granddaughters and Anna in the Tropics.

Panozzo also devised a one-woman show, Varde Che Bruta, which she performed at Universal Theatre, Stables Theatre and in the Sydney Festival. Television appearances include guest appearances in many popular Australian TV shows ranging from A Country Practice, Richmond Hill, Mission Impossible, Acropolis Now, GP and Wedlocked to Wildside, Headstart, White Collar Blue, Water Rates, Headland and Bed of Roses.

Her lead performance in director Monica Pellizzari's feature film, Fistful of Flies, attracted critical praise and Best Actress Awards at both the International Film Festival of Gijon and Russia's International SOOCHI Film Festival.

Other big screen appearances include Bedevil, The Man Who Sued God, and writer/director Jan Sardi's nostalgic romance, Love's Brother.

MATT BRODIE
too often, has been led down the wrong path. Luckily for Carla, she saw his 'spots' early on and although he was her first love, she took the 'high' road when he started to push the reckless abandonment of their early twenties into a more dangerous and potentially criminal territory. But that's not to say that these two still don't consider the 'what-ifs' of their past.

One of Joe Testro's crew, Matt's the guy who'll happily drive to a deal in Sydney on a moment's notice, carry a bag without asking questions or take his little nephew to footy practice. He's a serious young man with a strong sense of duty and although he's not without humour, he's quicker to anger than laughter. Matt has earned a great deal of respect in the organization for someone so young and he's been rewarded.

SULLIVAN STAPLETON (Matt Brodie)
Sullivan Stapleton's talent and leading man persona, have led to numerous film and television roles since embarking on a professional acting career in the mid-nineties.

His feature film credits are eclectic and range from director Nadia Tass' award-winning Amy to December Boys, in which he co-starred with Daniel Radcliffe. Other big screen credits include River Street, the supernatural thriller Darkness Falls and the US action drama The Condemned, for director Scott Wiper.

Over the last decade, Stapleton has starred in a host of popular local television shows such as Blue Heelers, State Coroner, Good Guys, Bad Guys, RAW FM, Neighbours, Stingers and Something in the Air. In 2003/2005 he starred in Network Ten's hugely popular series The Secret Life of Us, which he followed with the role of 'Father Martin' in the acclaimed Australian tele-movie Little Oberon alongside Sigrid Thornton. More recently, Stapleton guest-starred McLeod's Daughters and Canal Road and the smash-hit drama series Underbelly, in which he played 'Pasquale Barbaro.' Stapleton previously starred opposite Diana Glenn in Satisfaction.

GEORGINA KAVEL
is a go-getter who embraces life and people with unquestioning warmth. She has a heart of gold, swears like an old sailor and is a loyal and trusted friend. A girl who just wanted to have fun, Georgina left school at 16, did a make-up/hairdressing course and loved the socialising and gossip of her work.

She met Jack at a nightclub when she was out with girlfriends one night after work. Utterly smitten with Jack, a larrikin crim on the make, Georgina somewhat naively adopted the life of a gangster girlfriend. When Jack introduced her to his good friend, Matt, Georgina and Carla immediately hit it off. Carla introduced her to Lisa and the three of them were briefly very tight - when Matt and Carla broke up however, they drifted apart. When they get

JULIE ECKERSLEY (Georgina Kavel)
Multi-talented Julie Eckersley is an actress, comedian and writer with a wealth of stage and television experience. Audiences have been able to enjoy her flair for comedy through shows such as television's Let Loose Live and The Wedge, both of which she served as a series writer and performer, Newstopia and the Peter Brocklehurst Show, which was staged at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and directed by Glynn Nicholas.

Her stage background runs the gamut from comedy to drama and has included lead roles in productions for Bell Shakespeare, Melbourne Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre, Queensland Theatre Company, Gin & Tonic Theatre Troupe and The Secret Death of Salvador Dali for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, a role she reprised at London's Riverside Centre. Her performance in this production garnered her the 2000 4MBS Award for Outstanding Performance and the Adelaide Fringe Festival's Critics' Choice Award.

On television she has guest-starred in several notable Australian series such as Marshal Law, Little Oberon, Blue Heelers, and, most recently, City Homicide.

Creative Talent

IAN WATSON (Director):
Director IAN WATSON came to his profession by chance. Preparing for a career in marine biology at Newcastle University, Watson needed to do a humanities subject as part of his studies. A friend advised that he should do drama, as it was an 'easy' option, so he did and, to quote Watson, "his life changed." To the boy from the bush, who up until that time hadn't even seen a play, the drama class was a revelation. But fate didn't stop there. When it came time for the students to stage a play, Watson felt that the direction they were receiving was, "so appalling," that he would direct their next production, and that's where it all started. So aged 23, Watson abandoned his fledgling career as a marine biologist and enrolled in the director's course at NIDA.

Following graduation, he spent the next ten years as a theatre director, directing productions for the Melbourne and Adelaide State Theatre Companies, the Griffin Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Then in 1990 he decided switch mediums and attended film school.

As a TV director, Watson's credits include Heartbreak High, State Coroner, Wildside, Farscape, Seachange, The Secret Life of Us, Blackjack 2, Love My Way, The Alice, McLeod's Daughters, Canal Road and All Saints, plus many more.

He has twice been nominated for AFI Awards for television direction and was the inaugural winner of the Directors Guild of Australian Award for Best Direction in a Television Miniseries. He is also a sought-after lecturer and has worked with students at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and NIDA.

ELISA ARGENZIO (Producer):
Elisa Argenzio's experience in film and television production is extensive. Encompassing a range of senior production roles, Argenzio's career to date includes many seminal feature films and television programs of the last two decades, including director Lawrence Johnston's multi-award winning film LIFE, which she produced.

As Production Manager, Argenzio worked with director Geoffrey Wright on his features Lover Boy and Romper Stomper. Around that time, she also worked with her fellow Carla Cametti P.D. producer, Cristina Pozzan on director Ray Argall's acclaimed feature Return Home. Additional Production Manager credits include director Sue Brooks' Road to Nhill, Robert Connolly's The Bank, which starred David Wenham and Anthony LaPaglia, and notable television shows such as Good Guys, Bad Guys and the two-part mini-series Tribe, directed by George Miller.

Argenzio's Line Producer credits include the four-part ABC series Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude, Something in the Air(series 2), Network Ten's tele-movie Life, the thirteen-part children's series Noah and Saskia and three of Australian television's most acclaimed mini-series of recent times - Society Murders, The King and Underbelly. She has also Line Produced several feature films including Metal Skin, Yolngu Boy, The Wannabes, Three Dollars, Opal Dream and Irresistible (2005), which starred Susan Sarandon.

CRISTINA POZZAN (Producer)
Cristina Pozzan's career spans over twenty - five years and encompasses a broad range of filmmaking experience including feature films, documentaries and interactive media. Credits as Producer include the award winning feature film Return Home, documentaries Pop Movie (6 x 30 mins), As the Mirror Burns, Aeroplane Dance, Punch Lines, Curtains for my Cabin, The Pecking order, The Fifth Set and interactive projects, Totally Gorgeous and Mabo- The Native Title Revolution (nominated for a BAFTA).

Industry positions have included Executive Producer, Documentaries at Film Victoria and Executive Producer at Open Channel. As Project Manager at the Australian Film Commission between 2000 and 2003 Cristina assessed hundreds of feature, documentary, animation and interactive projects.

Over the past few years she has worked as an external assessor for Film Victoria, Screen Tasmania, the South Australian Film Corporation and the Australian Film Commission on feature films, television series, short films, animations and documentaries as well as the Victorian College of the Arts assessing it's graduates major projects. In 2005 and 2006 Cristina was a judge for the Screenwriting Prize of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

In 2005 Cristina worked alongside Producer Michael McMahon on the low budget feature Call Me Mum and was Consultant Producer on the AFC/FV funded short film William.

EWAN BURNETT (Executive Producer)
Ewan Burnett has worked in the Australian film and television industry for over 28 years. With an Arts Degree in Cinema Studies and Philosophy he embarked on a career in drama television for adults and children.

His extensive credits include the series Last Man Standing, mini-series Kangaroo Palace, Bootleg and The Farm and the children's series Animalia, The Wayne Manifesto, Eugenie Sandler P.I, Short Cuts, Fergus McPhail and Sleepover Club. His productions have won many Australian and International awards. He has also successfully produced stage productions and has served on a number of boards and committees.