Gordon's Star :: the short film

Nathaniel Oliveri Producer, Director, Original Screenplay, Director of Photography, Visual Effects, Original Musical Score Nathaniel Oliveri, already a renowned guitarist and also writer / director of other short films, graduated from the Foundation Diploma course at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in December 2009. Other roles Nathaniel took on for Gordon's Star were prop making, set design, set construction, location scouting as well as colour grading. Nathaniel also took on the challenge of the all important auditioning and casting. *Gordon's Star* was Nathaniel's first film operating the Canon 5D mark II DSLR camera as well as his first experience scoring a short film of this length (23 minutes 33 seconds). Visit Nathaniel's websites: www.lifeforcemedia.com.au www.nathanieloliveri.com www.nathanieloliveri.blogspot.com
Miguel Zaragoza Producer, First Assistant Director, Script Editor, Lighting and Sound, Visual Effects, Website Miguel Zaragoza has a background in multimedia, 3D animation and visual effects having graduated from the Graduate Certificate in 3D Animation course at AFTRS in the first semester of 2009 whilst studying the Foundation Diploma course (also at AFTRS). He graduated from that course in December 2009. He has also completed the Graduate Certificate in Animation Directing course at AFTRS in 2010 and is currently studying the Graduate Certificate in Visual Effects course. Other roles Miguel took on for Gordon's Star were OH&S supervision, prop making, location scouting and also assisted Nathaniel with auditioning and casting. During his studies at AFTRS in 2009 Miguel also worked on Dead Boring, directed by Dave Edwardz, an AFTRS Graduate Diploma short film which was a live action comedy filmed with a stereo camera. He was involved with the previsualisation and did some rotoscoping on the project. He also did 3D modeling on an animated short called Remembering (Foundation Diploma film by Winni Kim), sound recording for saePod (Foundation Diploma project by Sophie Weldon) as well as 3D special effects for the horror film Moving Day (Foundation Diploma short film by Tsubasa Masano). Miguel is currently working on original stories for animation. He also teaches Digital Animation at AFTRS for their Open Program. Visit Miguel's websites: www.levelelevenmedia.com www.narrowgatefilms.net www.migzar.com
Annette Sicari Second Assistant Director The incredibly talented Annette Sicari graduated from the Foundation Diploma course at AFTRS in December 2009 and is currently studying the Graduate Certificate in Editing Drama at AFTRS in 2010. For the 2009 Foundation Diploma course Annette also worked on her own short documentary film *Nonno. Annette also produced, directed, wrote and edited a short comedy Bruno, which was featured in the 16th WOW (World of Women) Film Festival 2008* and won the I Love Little Italy Film Festival 2008.

Elena Chrysafis Production Assistant The multi-talented Elena Chrysafis graduated from the Foundation Diploma course at AFTRS in December 2009. She assisted with production of Gordon's Star whilst working on her own short animated film for her final project. Elena is currently developing a feature film she will be directing in late 2010. She is also working on her own video art.

Jarred Eid - Camera / Lighting Consultant and Production Photographer

Masnoon Hossain Zarif - Camera Assistant and Production Photographer

Martin Lawrence - Sound Recordist and Production Assistant

David Charlesworth - Production Assistant

Nick Cklamovski - Production Assistant

Nelson Gabin - Production Assistant

Hayley Meyer - Production Assistant

Sahand Mohammadi - Production Assistant

Prashant Muneshwar - Production Assistant

Aimee Oliveri - Production Assistant

Mike Sarca - Production Assistant

Costa Pegios - Casting Assistant

Francesca Costa - Head Make-up Artist

Maria Bravo - Make-up Artist

Sally Brooks - Make-up Artist

Rachel Friedmann - Make-up Artist

Nicole Mammone - Make-up Artist

Rosalie Musso - Make-up Artist

Emma Neal - Make-up Artist

Siobhan O'Hanlon - Make-up Artist

Marina Sundin - Make-up Artist

Ashleigh Wilson - Make-up Artist

Annie Wright - Props Maker

Angelina Oliveri - Catering

Stella Sgambellone - Catering

Chris Hogben - Sound Sweetening

Hayley Meyer - Piano Performances for the Orignial Score

Ashley Wing - Colour Grade Consultant

Gina Otalvaro - Visual Effects

David Charlesworth - Opening Graphic

Fr Joe Pro, Arthur Escamilla, Alex Perrotet, Ben Ting, Simon Meares, Steven Spinks, Chris Myers and all the staff and residents of Warrane College

Andrew Mullins, Minsun Suo and all the staff at Redfield College

Pastor Graham Charlesworth

David Mifsud and the Mifsud Family

Alan Chandler, Violette Chandler, Joseph Oliveri, Kim Oliveri, Lynne Oliveri, Symon Oliveri, Samuel Oliveri and the Oliveri Family

Natividad Cabarrus, Jose Zaragoza, Marien Zaragoza, Javier Zaragoza, Saree Zaragoza,
Bianca Zaragoza, Carissa Zaragoza and Joshua Zaragoza

Ivana Ghirotto, Emma Nielson, Alison Ramsden, Amasha Wahab, 3 Arts Make-Up Centre,
the Academy of Makeup and Napolean Perdis Australia

Ben Beverly, Fergus Cahill, David Edwards, Christopher Hogben, Jaime Lewis, Tsubasa Masano,
Chris Meyers, Robert Morton, Shane Parsons, Matt Payne, Benjamin Swinbanks and all our fellow students at AFTRS

Magid Barwari and AFTRS Security

Martin Armiger, Julia Avenell, Katherine Blashki, Nicola Bridle, Tony Bosch, Linda Chang, Ian Bosman,
Ian Brown, Peter Butterworth, Kit Devine, Peter Giles, Catherine Gleeson, Simon Gray, Nicole Haraldson,
Phillippa Harvey, Gary Hayes, Rachel Landers, Kathy Meuller, Lisa Olesen, Daphne Paris,
Edward Primrose, Domenic Pulone, Wendy Thompson, Mark Ward, Michael Vanderveer, Tim Mohr,
Fiona Whalley and all the lecturers and staff at AFTRS

-- This page was last updated on 21 February 2014. --