Alice Yang is a multi-award-winning filmmaker having produced & directed many of her own short films, several of which have been officially selected in multiple film festivals like St.Kilda and Antenna.

 

In 2021, her documentary, 'My Ba' won the AIDC Best Documentary award at the South Australian Screen Awards and was also nominated for Best Editing, Best Student Production & the Carclew Young Filmmaker award. In 2022, she won Best Directing at Fleurieu FF. She has been selected for competitive skill development programs like Mercury CX's Springboard and AFTRS talent camp (in both State & Nationals) - from which she has gone on to become the recipient of the Quicksilver as well as the AFTRS production fund for a project currently in development.

 

She brings her multifaceted skill set to Beyond Content, an award-winning Creative Content Agency in her role as a Content Producer/Editor.  Her more notable work includes her role as editor for the ABC documentary, "The Silent World of Barry Priori" which has gone on to compete in some of the top international documentary festivals. Outside work, she pursues her own creative projects and itch for storytelling.

'Mingyu ‘Stevie’ Zhao (he/they) is Chinese-Australian multidisciplinary artist with roots in performance poetry. Stevie learnt to develop a voice to move others, after breaking free from the expressive repression of traditional Chinese culture.

After being transfixed by the works of Shane Koyzcan, Rudy Francisco, Alex Luu, and G. Yamazawa, he too has sought to present the beauty of life to others with a garnish of a call for change. His original artform was spoken word poetry. His original art practice was a combination of revisiting what life was like growing up as a Chinese boy in Australia, and exploring his cultural identity as a queer, Chinese-Australian.

As a spoken word artist, Stevie has performed for the likes of Writers SA, Context Writers Festival, Red Room Poetry, and Soul Lounge Adelaide. Making his acting debut in Soul Lounge Adelaide’s 2021 Fringe show JOURNEY, he was then taken as an understudy in Does It Please You? by Too Dumb Blondes in the 2022 Fringe season. Stevie also played the role of a Heaven’s Gate member in Wickedly Good Productions’ After All This, which concluded the 2022 Rumpus Theatre season.

Stevie now finds himself floating around different creative spaces, trying to find where he belongs.'

Sam Lau is a Hong Kong-Australian actor, musician and theatre-maker working on Kaurna Land. A graduate of the Adelaide College of Arts, Sam has worked with organisations such as ActNow Theatre, OzAsia, London Artists Projects, State Theatre Company South Australia, Perform!Education, Adelaide Festival Centre and Contemporary Asian Australian Performance.

 

Sam is also an accomplished musician, classically trained in piano and trombone. Combining his musicianship with the theatre, Sam has both acted and performed music in various productions, and composes for theatre and short films. Melding his actor training with his musicality, Sam approaches music through the lens of storytelling, embodying a narrative, feeling or journey in his songs and compositions. Sam is also a current 2023 Interplay Artist, an Nexus Arts initiative supporting professional growth for musicians, providing tailored mentorship and industry guidance.

 

Sam often explores themes of diaspora in his writing and works. He is currently developing Walk of the Ancestors in partnership with Brink Productions, a theatrical work where he explores the generational stories of his family. This work has had developments in 2022 through The Mill’s Breakout Residency and Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE Development Program, and is continuing its development in 2023 through support from Arts South Australia.

Genre-drifting flow-state pop melds with classical Indian raga melodies, soul and jazz – all anchored by Parvyn’s ethereal, inimitable vocals. Nominated for ARIA 2022 'Best World Music Album of the Year', her debut solo record ‘Sa’ draws from a broad palette of styles and moods from garage-esque bounce to 808 bass, layered loops and virtuosic vocal improvisations.

Best known as singer in cult-psychedelic, vintage bollywood inspired band The Bombay Royale and touring globally since childhood with her father Dya Singh. With influences from Bjork to Anoushka Shankar, Parvyn’s music is immersed in a reflective world of different cultures and perspectives.

Dan Phan is a Chinese-Vietnamese-Australian singer-songwriter born and raised on Kaurna Land. He writes songs and music inspired by his contexts of life, faith, and ethnicity, and finds his story most easily told through a guitar accompanying his voice. Dan began his musical journey by sharing his music on YouTube and has since grown to perform at weddings and local events around Adelaide, most notably performing at OzAsia’s Lucky Dumpling Market in 2020. 

 

In 2023, Dan was chosen as one of six artists to take part in the Interplay Development Program with Nexus Arts, providing the opportunity to collaborate with other culturally diverse artists and learn from industry professionals. Dan uses his music to explore his own story and experiences, on a path to understanding of the world around him and invites others to consider how their own story might be reflected in his music.

When you’re born in Yunnan, China, a region that is home to more than twenty-five ethnicities, it is not hard to find inspiration in the world around you. For Grace, these diverse influences have fuelled her curiosity and desire to explore the world through art. Yet it was the weekly trips to the cinema with her parents, that ultimately ignited the passion for filmmaking. After moving to Adelaide, South Australia with her parents at the age of fifteen, Grace was given her first camera and started to freelance for a local photography studio. 

 

Initially studying to become an architect, she found her way back to filmmaking, completing a Masters of Screen and Media, as well as a Masters of Arts at Flinders University. With 9 years of experience in the creative industry, she attributes her multicultural background as a key driver in her career. She has tapped into her cultural roots, directing five short films that have been well received. She is also a proud member of the ACS SA branch, and award winning cinematographer.

Jackie Zdanowicz is a Filipino-Australian writer/ director. Coming from a graphic design background, she made the leap to the film industry in order to pursue her first passion in life: storytelling.

 

After graduating from MAPS Film School in 2021, Jackie participated in AFTRS Talent Camp. In 2022, she completed a set decorator attachment with the SAFC on Highview Productions's feature doco Speedway. Her most recent project was the Screen Australia-funded web series Rules to Being a F*ckgurl, where she worked as a Props buyer/ standby props

 

Jackie is enthusiastic about continuing to work within the art department while developing her own stories. Forever an adult child, she’s interested in telling female-driven coming-of-age stories with humour.