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Thursday 2 – Saturday 4 March 2006
The Loft, Level 4, Bldg Z2, QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane

The organisers of the festival comprise a group of filmmakers and film devotees, all of whom have a background in working for film and community arts festivals. As this is the first year of OWaB, we are hoping that strong audience turnouts will lead to an on-going annual event in Brisbane.

Here are just a few of our valuable volunteers....

Phoebe Hart

Phoebe Hart produces documentaries for community organisations and for inclusion in film festivals, and works as a freelance producer and director regularly. Her acclaimed mini-doc Dumpster Divers screened at the 2004 Other Worlds Are Breathing Film Festival at the World Social Forum (WSF) in India. Traje screened at the 2005 WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Latin American Film Festival in Atlanta, USA. In 2005, Phoebe commenced a scholarship-funded PhD project at QUT's new Creative Industries Precinct. Phoebe Hart has a passion for all that is beautiful in the world and has a strong sense of social justice. She has travelled, lived, worked and studied in many parts of the globe, from the developed world (Germany and United Kingdom) to the majority world (Nepal and Guatemala).

Helen Yeates

Helen Yeates has a passion for film that manifests itself in many ways. In the 80s she decided to aim for a job that combined her leisure activity as a film buff and her professional life. She now teaches, researches and writes about film and television at QUT in the Creative Industries Faculty,  running classes in such areas as International Cinema and Australian Film. She has been an active member of the programming advisory panel for the Brisbane International Film Festival for the past ten years, viewing masses of films and writing program notes each year for the BIFF catalogue.  Helen has an eye for the visual and her jewellery is quite famous in certain circles...

Annabelle Evans

Annabelle is studying television at QUT and is the secretary of the QUT film and TV society. She also works part time as a casting assistant and wishes to use her degree from QUT to pursue a career in producing television.

Annabelle is an avid photographer who enjoys taking photographs of people and objects from different walks of life so to capture a moment of someone’s perspective, a mannerism or just a state of being.

Vattey "Tommy" Sokmongkol

Who Am I?
Oriental Aussie ME,
Currently completing my Degree in TV.
Spontaneous, smiling and carefree
Tommy, Ratty, CC,
Vattey nick names so silly.
A child of the Pol Pot war regime
I escaped death, dodging bullets and bombs
And often wondered, "Why humanity gone wrong"?
The echoes of those killing screams
remained within Others in haunting dreams
I volunteer here today
so Others would never experience my yesterdays...

Amy Purton-Long

Amy Purton-Long spends her time running from one project to the next. When she has time to sit down long enough she writes (and infrequently has published) film scripts, plays, poems and short stories. She is currently studying film at QUT and hopes to graduate with skills in the areas of documentary production and scriptwriting. Amy is currently the rather haphazard president of the QUT Film and TV Society. She has a keen interest in social issues and the environment. Amy is looking forward to more travelling and making films that make a difference. She is also looking forward to spending some time sitting quietly with a coffee, if the opportunity ever presents itself.

Greer Ambrose

Greer Ambrose has many skills; you know, like nun chuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Boys like girls with skills.

She has an unnatural interest in Llamas; personally we all feel she just likes the way LLAAAMAAA rolls off your tongue.

She detests writing in third person yet strangely enjoys speaking in third person.

Greer was born and raised in Brisbane and enjoys swings. There are many swings where she lives… up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down…. When not at uni working out the logistics of Underwater Chess she can be found at Urban Grind supporting her caffeine addiction.

When Greer grows up she wants to be a producer and wear a headset.

If you vote for me, all your wildest dreams will come true.

Jenny Yourell

Jenny Yourell is a third year student and one of the first students to undertake the Creative Industries Television degree at QUT. She loves watching television and films and one day soon hopes to utilise her script writing skills to develop some entertaining and thought provoking television; or film scripts or something that will be shown somewhere. After studying marketing over the summer, Jenny has found another way to assist in bringing intriguing and inspiring stories to the people.

Why not get involved? Contact us for more information.

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"Another world is not only possible, she's on her way.... [O]n a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing."
Arundhati Roy, WSF 2003