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Sam Edwards

Writer-director Sam Edwards graduated from the University of Newcastle with a 7.0 GPA and the 2023 Award For Excellence In communication. Many of his projects have won awards at local festivals, including "Grown-Up," "More Than Friends," and "Fortune And Glory." Currently, he freelances as a videographer and media creator, with feature credits on "Under the Red" and "Strangers in a Carpark."

His work can be viewed at samedwards.com.au

Kia Pugh

As the recipient of the 2023 Newbie Award for “Emerging Professional Artist”, producer and editor KIA PUGH has found her passion in both independent and documentary filmmaking. Throughout her three-year degree in Communications, majoring in Media Arts Production, Kia has won multiple awards and found both her short films, Grown-Up and Hunger, and her first documentary Forever, Maybe all qualifying for the festival circuit. This past year she has worked in both casting and data wrangling for Good Eye Deer Productions, along with multiple creative collaborations and editing work for True Screen Acting. Her editing in the documentary “Teavagaraga na Joey go Marina” has been displayed in the National Museum of Vanuatu.

Eve Prior Shoebridge

Graduating from the University of Newcastle with Distinction in 2022, producer and production designer Eve Prior Shoebridge has been a passionate filmmaker since she was a child, filling her spare time at school editing her own films and mixing live productions. During the course of her degree, Eve wrote the screenplay and produced the short film "Grown-Up", and was production designer and co-writer on the short film "Olives," which has also made the festival circuit alongside "Grown-Up."

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