Penny Chapman

Penny Chapman is one of Australia’s most experienced television producers. She was a founding partner of the multi award winning company Matchbox Pictures. Her Matchbox credits include Secret City, Deadline Gallipoli, Devil’s Playground, The Straits, The Slap and the children’s series My Place. Her earlier credits include RAN (Remote Area Nurse), Leaky Boat, Rampant: How A City Stopped a Plague, Darwin’s Lost Paradise, The Cooks and The Road From Coorain.

During the 1990s, Penny was Head of TV Drama, then Head of Television at the ABC. During this time she executive produced many dramas, among them Brides Of Christ, (which she devised), The Leaving Of Liverpool, and Blue Murder. 

In 2010, Penny was awarded the inaugural Inside Film Award for Contribution to the Television Industry and in 2013 the Screen Producers Australia Maura Fay Award for Services to the industry. 

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins is an author, screenwriter and producer. Her first novel, The Burial (2012), was published in ten countries and shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, NSW Premier's Literary Award for New Writing and the Stella Prize. The Burial is currently being adapted as a feature film.

In 2019, she travelled to the Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh, India, to research her second novel, BIRD (July, 2024). She presents and co-produces the podcast, Are You Still Working?

Courtney holds a Master of Creative Writing and is completing a PhD titled 'Working Against Whiteness in Creative Literary Production’. She lived in the remote Northern Territory for eight years before relocating to Gumbaynggirr Country, on the Mid North Coast.

Marc Fennell

Marc Fennell is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and documentary maker. A five-time medallist at the New York Festivals TV and Radio Awards, Marc has been nominated twice for Europe’s prestigious Rose d’Or Awards for Excellence in Television. He is a recipient of America’s coveted James Beard Foundation Award, an Asian Creative Academy National Award, and Webby Award Honors. The Times (UK) has called Marc the “cheerful Aussie version of Louis Theroux”.   

Marc is the creator of the popular, award-winning television series and podcast Stuff the British Stole for ABC Australia and CBC Canada. He is also the quizmaster of SBS TV’s Mastermind and has fronted groundbreaking docs like the Logie & AACTA-nominated School That Tried to End Racism (ABC 2021), The Kingdom (SBS 2023), The Mission (SBS 2023), Rose d’Or-shortlisted art-heist docu-series Framed (SBS 2021), as well as the hit Audible Original Podcasts It Burns (2019), Nut Jobs (2020), and House of Skulls (2023).

Alice Tynan

Alice Tynan is the Head of Marketing and Communications at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). With 15 years of experience in content production, built upon a distinctive background as an award-winning film critic, she knows the power of a compelling story. Alice spent seven years in Dublin building Dropbox's brand, editorial, and customer communications efforts across EMEA and the US, which saw her hosting panels at Sundance, being on juries at the Toronto International Film Festival, and venturing onto La Croisette for Cannes Lions. Alice returned home to lead marketing and communications for the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia before joining AFTRS to help our national screen and audio school celebrate its 50th anniversary.