Screen NSW is holding a monthly webinar series to help demystify market partners and support mid-level creatives and producers to feel more confident to create and pitch projects.

Joining us this month for NAIDOC Week is Gillian Moody, filmmaker and founder of Kalori Productions and Jonathan Page, producer and founder of Bonsai Films, and we’ll be discussing pitching projects to market partners and collaboration between filmmakers and distributors while releasing feature films and documentaries.

Gillian and Jonathan will be in conversation with Screen NSW Investment Manager Hayley Johnson, followed by a Q&A.

Gillian Moody

Respected for her advocacy of Indigenous stories and mentoring of emerging filmmakers, Gillian has worked in both management and production roles in the screen industry over the past three decades. She worked with AFTRS, MetroScreen, and SBS before becoming an Investment and Development Manager at Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department from 2007 to 2014.

Gillian series produced the first series of documentary Family Rules, six 30min episodes for NITV in 2016, and Nice Shorts, an online sketch comedy series with Bunya Productions in 2019. Her collaboration with Bunya followed a producing internship undertaken with them two years earlier.

Gillian started her own company Kalori Productions in 2018 which saw co-production on the documentary Black Divaz. She also develops and produces drama projects through Kalori, including short films Ties That Bind which had its world premiere at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival and won the award for Best Australian Short Screenplay and Katele (Mudskipper) which won the Flickerfest Best Australian Short Film in 2023 and in 2024 received the Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking Award at St Kilda Film Festival.

Gillian co-directed and co-produced the feature documentary Kindred with long-time friend and key collaborator Adrian Russell Wills, which screened at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival and premiered on NITV in June 2024.

Jonathan Page

Jonathan Page has worked in multiple capacities in film, television and live theatre for 25 years. In 2010 Jonathan established Bonsai Films to work with distributors, sales agents and producers providing practical and viable solutions to exploit rights, develop projects and fund films.

Through Bonsai Films, he licenses content to Australian broadcasters, streamers, airlines and online platforms and has theatrically released or consulted on over 50 feature films. Recent theatrical documentary releases include Franklin, The Rooster, Limbo and In My Blood it Runs.

Jonathan has executive produced numerous Australian films including The Babadook, Of An Age and Knowing the Score.