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Stephen Dupont
Acclaimed Australian photographer and filmmaker whose work has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including the 2007 W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his work in Afghanistan, and the 2010 Gardner Fellowship for his work in Papua New Guinea. His work has been exhibited at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the International Center of Photography, the New York Public Library, the National Museum of the Marine Corp, The Australian War Memorial, among other venues. He is the author of six published books and numerous handmade photographic artist books and portfolios held in the collections of institutions including the Australian War Memorial, Boston Athenaeum, MONA, the International Center of Photography, Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Library of Australia, the British Library, New York Public Library, the Tate Museum, the Library of Congress, Berlin and Munich National Art Libraries, Stanford University, Yale University, and private collections of Manfred Heiting and Jack Ginsberg.
elizabeth tadic
Elizabeth Tadic is a multi-award winning journalist and filmmaker. Over the past two decades, she has produced a dozen documentaries, with a focus on marginalised peoples from some of the worlds most troubled hotspots. Her film Malaria, Money & Murder, an investigation into the fake drug racket in Nigeria, won her a prestigious Rory Peck Award, reserved for courageous camera operators who have risked their lives to report on newsworthy events. She is one of two Australians ever to win this accolade. She has also won a UN Media Peace prize and been nominated for a Walkley award. Her other film UMOJA: No Men Allowed (aka Where Women Run Wild), which she wrote, filmed, directed and edited, won 12 international awards including Best Women’s Film at the Cleveland International Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Palm Springs ShortFest. In 2017, she began collaborating with Stephen Dupont of A Bordertown Studio, producing his one-man theatrical show Don’t Look Away, which premiered at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart. It subsequently travelled to Sydney and Melbourne where both shows sold out. Their most recent collaboration, a feature documentary KAUGERE: A Place Where Nobody Enters (2024) won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 International Oceanian Film Festival (FIFO-Tahiti) and the Best Documentary award at the 2023 Byron Bay International Film Festival. Elizabeth has a slate of projects in development, including a television series and two feature films.
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jacques menasche
Award-winning writer, editor, and filmmaker who has produced reportage, books, and films from around the world, covering the attacks on 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, conflict in the Middle East, among other important stories. His work has appeared in the New York Daily News, ESPN The Magazine, Vanity Fair, Columbia Journalism Review, The Independent, and Corriere dela Sera, and he helped author the acclaimed book, Red- Color News Soldier: A Chinese Photographer’s Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution by Li Zhensheng and David Burnett’s 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World. In 2007, “Brothers of Kabul,” his documentary about heroin addiction in Afghanistan, produced with Stephen Dupont, received Australia’s Walkley Award for Best TV News Feature, and his documentary on a first-grade class near Ground Zero, “The Class of 9/11,” led off PBS NewsHour’s 10th anniversary coverage. His artist books are held in the collections of the British Library, the National Library of Australia, and the Library of Congress