Core Production Team (CPT)
TONY CHU
[Head of Productions]
tony@nafa.net.au
0412 230 415
Tony founded NAFA and convenes our monthly Choc Tops in the Attic meetings. He is also the Festival Director of two short film festivals called Show-Fest and Action-Fest.
As an actor, he has appeared on stage, TV, and film with notable credits on “All Saints” and “White Collar Blue”, where in the latter he was also Medical Adviser.
A prolific filmmaker, Tony has co-produced one feature and made over 30 shorts to date. In preparation for his debut feature film, he is interested in good writing, directing with vision, and working with different genres.
ALISON MYERS
[Publicity & Membership Coordinator]
publicity@nafa.net.au
membership@nafa.net.au
Alison has been hooked on editing from the moment she first sat down at a Steenbeck however many years ago. She has since been editing whatever anyone will let her get her hands on, occasionally even writing scripts, developing projects, and going out shooting her own stuff (badly) just so she’ll have something to edit. This hasn’t been a problem since meeting Tony who has kept her well-supplied with NAFA productions.
SIDAT de SILVA
[Festival Coordinator, Technical Adviser, Web & Graphic Designer]
Sid could never have been very far from NAFA. Ever since sharing the stage with Tony and Malcolm in a 2001 production of Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade, Sid has been watching NAFA grow.
Having completed full-time studies in film and TV production, focusing on editing and cinematography, Sid is currently working as a freelance camera operator.
JOHN HALY
[Secretary]
Having danced and performed on stages around Sydney, John finally limped off the stage to start a film and post production business called Halyucinations Studios, to promote Visual Artists with Visual Media. He then began creating films and showreels for artists and performers.
John joined NAFA in 2003 and found himself managing NAFA’s original Web site until 2005 when he began studying for a Multimedia Diploma from Computer Graphics College (CGC). After attaining this Diploma in 2007, Tony Chu asked him to join the CPT as Secretary.
John has shot and edited two NAFA films, Babes and When Kane Was Able. He is now looking forward to producing more short film work.
TOM LANNI
[Business Development Coordinator]
Tom spent his earlier years as a variety club act, working in US military bases, local nightclubs, and TV in Okinawa, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Guam during the early 1970s. He then spent 17 years on the Australian club circuit. He recently came to the acting world after classes at Ensemble Studios and Lynette Sheldon Intensive Workshops. In 2003 he had a key role in the feature film The Edge of The World and in 2004 he has had parts in the US feature Dynasty, as well as TVC work and a series of short films.
JEANNIE NEILL
[International Consultant & Script Coordinator]
Raised in England, Jeannie has lived and worked in Italy, the Netherlands and Lebanon but currently spends her time between Sydney and Santa Monica, California. In 1990 she joined The Playwrights Group in LA as a Board Member/Director/Producer at the Lee Strasberg Institute. A long-time collaboration with Dutch director George Sluizer led to work on The Vanishing, followed by Crimetime and Dark Blood. Jeannie co-wrote and produced The Innocent Bystander, garnering several awards at international festivals. In 1999 Jeannie partnered with MGS Films B.V. to package and co-produce films out of the Netherlands using European tax incentive funds. Her most recent feature was The Pet, released in 2006.