Mark Hartley is a multiple ARIA award winning and AFI award winning filmmaker.
In 2008 his highly acclaimed debut feature, "Not Quite Hollywood" - featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper, Barry Humphries and Quentin Tarantino - was selected as opening night film of the Melbourne International Film Festival before having a 50 print Australian theatrical release through Madman Entertainment and theatrical seasons in the United States and the United Kingdom courtesy of Magnolia Films and Optimum Releasing.
At the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards "Not Quite Hollywood" won Best Documentary and Mark was awarded the inaugural "AFI Documentary Trailblazer" award. He also received an AFI nomination for Best Editing.
"Not Quite Hollywood" also won both the 2009 Filmink award and the Film Critics Circle Association (FCCA) award for Best Documentary - voted by a national body of professional film critics in Australia.
Prior to embarking on "Not Quite Hollywood", Mark was Australia's busiest music video maker, directing over 150 promos for local and international artists including Powderfinger, The Living End, Sophie Monk, The Cruel Sea and Joe Cocker. He has received a total of 8 ARIA nominations, winning two statuettes (he tied with himself at the 2000 awards). He has also won a Tui for "Best Music Video" at the New Zealand Music Awards and has been nominated for an International MTV Award.
In addition, Mark directed the official music video of the XXVII Olympic Games, the video for Walt Disney's theatrical release, "The Jungle Book 2" and was commissioned by Screentime to direct the debut music videos for the first two "Popstars" winners.
Mark has also directed a number of long form documentaries on classic Australian Films working in collaboration with Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi and Phillip Noyce. These documentaries have been released internationally through Criterion in the United States and Second Sight in the United Kingdom. He was recently involved in the production of the International Blu-ray release of "Baraka" and has also created content for Severin Films and Blue Underground in the United States.
MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! is Mark's second theatrical feature film.
VERONICA FURY – Producer
Veronica Fury is an award winning producer and company director of Fury Productions Pty Ltd. Fury Productions is one of Queensland's busiest factual production companies making content for Australian and International audiences via major television broadcasters, festivals, and DVD sales.
Upon graduating from Griffith University's acclaimed Film School in 2003 she produced two QPIX documentaries for ABC as part of the Odd Jobs initiative. After a stint at Network Ten in Brisbane she produced (with Mark Chapman for Big Island Pictures) a one-hour historical documentary for SBS TV entitled "Black Soldier Blues" (dir Nicole McCuaig) which was short-listed for the prestigious NSW Premier's Award in 2006.
After setting up Fury Productions she completed a two part series titled "The Glamour Game" (dir/s Susan Lambert & Aviva Ziegler) for SBS in 2007 and in 2008 produced the highly renowned AFI, FIFA, FIFO nominated "Fairweather Man" (dir Aviva Ziegler) for ABC which went on to tie with "Bright Star" for the highly prestigious NSW Premiers Award in 2010. In 2009 she produced "World Champion Santa" (dir David Downey) for ABC and is currently producing "The Trouble with St Mary's" (dir Peter Hegedus) for ABC and "The Curse of the Gothic Symphony" (dir Randall Wood) for ABC and 2011 MIFF Premiere Fund.
Fury Productions has a large number of exciting documentary projects in various stages of financing including "First Fagin" (dir Alan Rosenthal) for ZDF/ARTE and "Mysteries of the Human Voice" (dir Stefan Moore) for ARTE France.
Fury Productions is currently in an exciting growth period and is expanding to produce a broad range of high quality screen content. Projects like the ACTF and Screen Queensland funded live action children's series "The Mango Street Kids" is now in second stage development. And a number of long form factual series are in development under a joint venture with one of New Zealand's premier production companies Greenstone Pictures.
Sara Edwards began her editing career at production company Famous by Tuesday - where she cemented a long-standing relationship with director Mark Hartley. Together they have worked on numerous TVCs and music videos including the Aria award winning Madison Avenue clips. In 2002 Sara began a freelance career and has since worked on many special features for Umbrella Entertainment's DVD releases including "Careful He Might Hear You", "Lonely Hearts" and "Patrick", as well as the Channel 9 TV series "Snake Tales" and two animated children's series for Channel 10.
Sara co-edited "Not Quite Hollywood" with Jamie Blanks and Mark Hartley for which she was nominated for Best Editing in the 2008 AFI Awards. She has returned to the team to co-edit "Machete Maidens Unleashed!".
KARL VON MOLLER - Director of Photography
Since graduating from the Swinburne Film & TV School, Karl has worked as a Cinematographer in advertising and music videos - and it's here that Karl and director Mark Hartley first worked together.
In recent years, Karl has been shooting long form drama. He shot additional material for the feature films "Subterano", "The Honourable Wally Norman" and "Under the Gun" followed by the AFI winning short "Break & Enter" produced by Melanie Coombs. Karl has shot documentaries on many varied subjects including "Marrying In" by Lea Bolton and "Original Schtick" for Maciej Wszelaki.
More recently Karl was Cinematographer on the horror films "Storm Warning" and "Long Weekend". He also photographed the Australian component of "The Bank Job" directed by Roger Donaldson. Mark Hartley and Karl regrouped on the documentary "Not Quite Hollywood" and again on "Machete Maidens Unleashed!".
JAMIE BLANKS - Composer
Jamie Blanks started making slasher films in his early teens, chopping up friends and relatives. In his 20s he graduated to killing off some of Hollywood's rising stars in the horror flicks "Urban Legend" and "Valentine".
Recently Jamie has directed, edited and scored two "Ozploitation" movies penned by Everett DeRoche - the gore drenched "Storm Warning" and a remake of the 1978 Colin Eggleston classic, "Long Weekend". Jamie has also written the scores to the motion pictures "Crush" and "Needle". He co-edited "Not Quite Hollywood", receiving an AFI nomination for his effort, and has returned to compose the original music for "Machete Maidens Unleashed!".
