Board
Ms Cheryl Bart, Chair
Ms Cheryl Bart was appointed Chairman of the South Australian Film Corporation on 19 February 2004. Ms Bart is a lawyer and a non-executive Director on a number of boards including the Economic Development Board, ETSA Utilities, EOS Ltd, Global Properties Ltd, Spark Infrastructure Ltd, ANZ Trustees Ltd and the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation. She is the Chairman of the Adelaide Film Festival, the Adelaide Film Investment Fund and the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). Ms Bart serves as a member of the SAFC's Finance and Audit Committee.
Bridget Ikin
Bridget Ikin is an independent film producer, whose credits include An Angel At My Table, Kitchen Sink, Crush, Loaded, Floating Life and Look Both Ways; she was EP on The Tracker, Australian Rules, Walking on Water and Kabbarli. From 1996-2000 Bridget was General Manager of SBSi, responsible for more than 400 hours of distinctive Australian television programming. She was an establishing Evaluation Manager at the FFC in Sydney, where she consulted (amongst others) on the features Candy, Footy Legends, Suburban Mayhem, The Home Song Stories, Clubland and Lucky Miles. Bridget is currently producing the feature My Year Without Sex.
Gabrielle Kelly
Gabrielle Kelly is an award-winning documentary director and producer with 20 years' experience in television and new media. Gabrielle founded the Australian International Documentary Conference in 1987, served as a director of the Australian Film Finance Corporation and has significant senior executive experience in Australia and the United States in new media companies.
Jane Yuile
Jane Yuile is Director of Amik Consulting providing expertise to boards and executives in finance, risk, strategy and governance. She currently chairs the boards of 370 degrees Group Limited and Jamfactory Contemporary Craft and Design, is a Director of the Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council (SA) and IT&e Limited, chairs the Finance Committee of Southern Adelaide Health Service and is on the Finance Committee of the University of Adelaide and the Risk Management and Audit Committee of the Department of Health (SA). Jane is Chairman of the SAFC’s Finance and Audit Committee.
John Chataway
John Chataway is a founding partner of the Kojo Group, South Australia’s largest visual communications specialist company. John is CEO of Touché Adaptive Systems, which develop and market next-generation interactive and adaptive displays systems.
John also remains a Director on the Kojo Board. He is an accomplished director and award-winning cinematographer in his own right with over 20 years experience in the events, film, video and new media industries. John is also a founding member of the United Film Group, Board member of the Australian Dance Theatre and Deputy Chair of the Adelaide Fringe Board. John also serves as a member of the SAFC’s Finance and Audit Committee.
Julie Ryan
For ten years, Julie Ryan worked with Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer and produced five of his feature films including the Award winning Ten Canoes (Special Jury Prize, Un Certain Regard, 2006 Cannes Film Festival), Alexandra’s Project (2003 Berline Film Festival), and The Tracker (2002 Venice Film Festival). She recently formed her own production company, CYAN FILMS with new media producer Kate Croser. Their first feature film My Tehran For Sale, shot entirely on location in Iran, is a co-production with Bahman Ghobadi (Turtles Can Fly). In 2008, Julie also produced the feature film Broken Hill, with the producer of Napolean Dynamite, Chris 'Doc' Wyatt.
Susan MacKinnon
Susan MacKinnon is an award-winning filmmaker and a tireless advocate for Australian documentaries. Her many film credits include the feature documentaries The Oasis, Global Haywire, '4' and In The Company of Actors. Others are Over My Dead Body, Fetch, Eternity, Loaded - The Gun Lovers, You Must Remember This, Dinner For Six, Somewhere Between Light And Reflection and Men And Their Sheds. Susan is an Executive Officer and a Director of the Documentary Australia Foundation. From 1997 to 2005 Susan was the Documentary Investment Manager at the Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) where she assisted filmmakers in financing over 400 films, including many international co-productions and joint ventures.
Tony Clark
Tony Clark is Director of Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) and has worked as VFX Supervisor or Executive Producer on big budget Hollywood projects such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Blood Diamond, and Charlotte’s Web as well as local feature films such as Elephant Tales. Tony is an Emmy and ACS Award-winning Cinematographer, having worked with Rolf de Heer on The Quiet Room and Dance Me To My Song, which both screened in official competition at Cannes, Mario Andreacchio’s Sally Marshall Is Not An Alien, Tempted with Bill Bennett and most recently Kalaupapa – Heaven with Paul Cox. Whilst juggling Cinematography and his many roles with RSP, Tony has also found time to sit on the Boards of the Helpmann Academy, Ausfilm and Cinenet Systems.