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We have people from all walks of life and levels of experience particpating in our courses. Here is a list of fifty people who have either done the courses or worked with Roland, following The Writers' Studio process. • Dr George Miller: film maker, Happy Feet, Mad Max, Babe, Lorenzo's Oil, Witches of Eastwick • Carl Barron: professional comedian • Mary Donaldson: Crown Princess of Denmark • Jacinta Tynan : newsreader and author of Good Man Hunting • Sam de Brito: author, journalist, script editor, TV: White Collar Blue, Water Rats, Books: No Tattoos Before You're Thirty… What I'll Tell My Children? • Sharon Aris: author It's My Party and I'll Knit if I Want To, Being Married • Yasmin Boland: journalist, author: Carole King is an Alien and All the Rage • Caroline Gerard: writer/producer, her first feature film, The Bet. 2nd place: London/Australian Film Festival, 2006.3rd place: Urban Cinefile Audience Award for Best Feature: Sidebar Program, Sydney Film Festival, 2006 • Erina Reddan: author, non fiction, Baby Daze, fiction Water from the Moon • Penny Robinson: author, Executive Producer of RPA • Matt Duffy: award winning short film director and documentary maker. • John Mavity: award winning short film director and documentary maker. • Sandra Sully: journalist, Channel 10 television presenter • Elizabeth Farrelly: columnist, author and feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald • Ruth Ostrow: columnist, author and feature writer for The Australian • Rachel Ward: actor, film maker • Nick Lathouris: actor, dramaturg, script editor • Anthony Ackroyd: professional comedian • Mandy Newman: author: How to Say I Do • Dr Arnie Goldman: lecturer in English Literature • Hugh Rimington : CNN Corespondent • Meryl Tankard : choreographer, including Tarzan the Musical on Broadway • Sue MacKinnon: Film Finance Corporation Investment Manager, Documentaries • Fiona Seres: scriptwriter, film and television Love My Way, The Surgeon • Lyn Marie Danzig: film maker-shorts • Rob Johnson: editor, journalist and author The Golden Age of the Argonauts and Boom-Boom! A Century of Australian Comedy. • Eve Grysbowski: yoga teacher and author • Margaret Sixel: film editor, Happy Feet, Babe 2 • Kay Pavlou: director, Under One Roof, Desperately Seeking Sheila. MacLeod's Daughter • Peter McDonald: animator, Animal Logic • Phillip Hearnshaw: first assistant director - Babe • Rob Pullan: journalist, author of seven books • Carla Coulson: author and photographer, Italian Joy • Katerina Cosgrove: author, The Glass Heart • Rachel Oakes Ash: journalist/author, Good Girls do Swallow, Anything She Can Do I Can Do Better • Scott Roberts: screenwriter and director, The Hard Word • Ashley Hay: journalist/author, The Secret • Alan Close: journalist, features • Bianca Dye: radio announcer, NOVA • Helen Frye: editor/published short stories • Claudia Karvan: actress film and TV, producer, Love My Way, The Secret Life of Us • Kevin Rozzoli: former State MP and Speaker, author "Gavel to Gavel - An Insider's View of Parliament" • Dr Anne Hale: anthropologist • Caroline Roessler: managing editor, The Australian Women's Weekly • Matt Palmer: advertising/commercials director • Emma Balfour: model/poet/author, Poems • Peter Klugg: forensic phsychiatrist • Lisa Forrest: radio and TV broadcaster/author Making the Most of It, djMax, Meg Banana • Martyn Ives: documentary film maker, Emmy Award winner • Carolyn Baum: ABC Book Show • Jim Searle: architect and playwright • Mark Gould: documentary film maker, producer • Alec Morgan: filmmaker, Hunt Angels, Beautiful Bondi, Our Century, Dusty Hearts • Rebecca Rocheford Davies: actor, writer, producer • Dr Kerry James: anthropologist
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