CREW

TRAVIS BEARD
Director

RocKabul is Travis’ first feature film. While living in Afghanistan, he founded projects like Skateistan, Wallords, Combat Communications and Sound Central Festival.

BROOKE TIA SILCOX
Post-Producer
No-Thing Productions

Brooke was the recipient of the $100,000 Screenwest Emerging Producer Initiative. She produced the Bad Guy on political artist Abdul Abdullah (ABC Arts), Home: The Art of Ian Strange (ABC iView), feature documentary Meal Tickets (MIFF, REV, Sydney Indie FF, MDFF) and the short film Judas Collar. She also associate produced the feature film Jirga (Felix Media).

LESLIE KNOTT
Executive Producer
TigerNest Films

Leslie is an award-winning filmmaker. Her first film, Out of the Ashes, won a 2011 Grierson Award. Her films have been broadcast on Netflix, BBC, ARTE, PBS, ITV, ABC, NBC, Channel 4 and CBC. In 2013 Leslie was nominated for an Academy Award for “Buzkashi Boys” which was co-produced by the Afghan Film Project, a non-profit NGO that Leslie co-founded in 2010 to help train Afghan filmmakers and foster Afghanistan’s film industry.

BRIDGET CALLOW-WRIGHT
Producer
Midwinter Films

Bridget is an award winning producer, her most recent film; The Butterfly Tree had its international premiere at 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and has since sold theatrically across the world including AU/NZ, US, UK, China and Russia. It won Best Picture and Best Actor at CIAFF, and was nominated for 3 AACTA Awards, 1 FCCA Award and 4 Oz Flix awards including Best Picture.

CLEMENTINE MALPAS
Executive Producer
TigerNest Films

Clementine is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 13 years’ experience in the developing world. Her most recent film about Nigerian girls trafficked to Italy for sex, won a SIMA award. Previous films have been nominated for awards from Royal Television Society and One World Media Awards. She was previously based in Kenya and Afghanistan. Her films have been broadcasted internationally on Channel 4, Al Jazeera, CNN, PBS and Netflix among others.

BILL GOULD
Executive Producer

American musician and producer best known as the bassist of Faith No More. He is the founder of Koolarrow Records.

ELLIE KEALEY
Executive Producer

Ellie Kealey is a freelance photographer and videographer with over 9 years’ experience working extensively across Central Asia and MENA region. Previously based in Afghanistan and Beirut, her most recent assignments include; South Sudan for the UN; social care in Kurdistan and Iraq; female empowerment in Tunisia, Morocco and Palestine; Syrian refugees in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon.

CHRISTIAN FALCH
Co-Producer (Norway)
Gammaglimt AS

Christain founded the Norweigan Production Company Gammaglimt AS in 2003.He is currently prodcing documentaries for UpNorth Film. His past titles include The Exorcist in the 21st Century (2012), Street of Dreams (2013) and most recently the award-winning documentaries “Two Raging Grannies” (2014),Blackhearts (2016) and Golden Dawn Girls (2017).

TORSTEIN PARELIUS
Co-Producer (Norway)

Torstein is a producer and outreach producer for Gammaglimt and UpNorth Film. His most recent titles include Golden Dawn Girls (2017), Blackhearts (2016) and The King And The Crook (2015) as outreach producer, and Braving The Waves (Iran 2016) and Boys Who Like Girls (Finland 2018) as co-producer.

JASON BEARD aka: Major Delay
Composer

Jason Beard is a music producer who has composed soundtracks for films including Juliana’s Story (2011) which won an award for Best Short Film Soundtrack (LA Movie Awards), Kabul at Work (2012), Melbourne Victory Football Team Anthem (2012), Michael Klim promotion (2013), Mischa Merz “The Sweetest Thing” (Boxer’s Memoir) and the Tarwin Valley Project (2013).