Nicola White
General Manager

Nicola has spent 16 years working in independent exhibition and distribution in marketing, acquisitions and programming as well as film festival programming.

You can email Nicola.

Rolando Caputo
Co-Editor

Rolando Caputo likes the sound of wind on film, and lectures in the Cinema Studies Program, La Trobe University (Melbourne).

You can email Rolando.

Michelle Carey
Film Festivals Editor

Michelle Carey lives in Melbourne. She also programs films for the Melbourne Cinémathèque and the Melbourne International Film Festival.

You can email Michelle.

Fincina Hopgood
Book Reviews Editor

Fincina Hopgood holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from the University of Melbourne. Her thesis examines the portrayal of mental illness in recent films from Australia and New Zealand. Fincina has taught courses in Australian cinema, the musical genre, and visual culture at Melbourne and Monash Universities, and she has written for Cinema Papers, Metro and Screening the Past. Fincina is interested in Australian and New Zealand cinema, film festivals, actors, and adaptations of novels. Her favourite filmmakers are David Fincher, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, and Peter Weir.

You can email Fincina.

Matthew Stephenson
Web Designer

Matthew Stephenson has recently completed his Masters of Cinema Management at the University of Melbourne and currently works as part of the Theatrical team at Madman Entertainment.

You can email Matthew.

Adrian Danks
Cteq Editor

Dr Adrian Danks, 39, is Head of Cinema Studies and teaches Cinema and Cultural Studies in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. He is currently President and co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque, and editor of CTEQ Annotations on Film. He has published widely on the cinematic representation of place, the relationship of domestic photography to cinema, film history, film culture, film restoration, Australian cinema, and cinematic authorship. His writing has appeared in a range of books and journals including: Senses of Cinema, Metro, Screening the Past, RealTime, Screen Education, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Traditions in World Cinema, and Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films. He also has a particular love of filmmakers who are fond of cats. His favourite directors are: Chris Marker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Ernst Lubitsch, Stan Brakhage, Bob Clampett, Claire Denis, Bruce Conner, Martin Scorsese, Yasujiro Ozu, Abbas Kiarostami, Budd Boetticher, Georges Franju, Jean-Luc Godard (up to 1967), Robert Bresson, Humphrey Jennings, Buster Keaton, Sergio Leone, Terrence Malick, Max Ophuls, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles and Wong Kar-Wai. He has an Economics degree from the University of Melbourne (which he is still trying to live down), a Media Studies degree from RMIT, and a doctorate from LaTrobe University. Would like Paul Meurisse or Warren Oates (though others have suggested Ed Harris) to play him in the very unlikely event that someone wanted to make a film of his life.

You can email Adrian.

Senses of Cinema committee
Rebecca Oliver; Deb Verhoeven; Peter Hourigan; Gary Andrews; Alex Prior, and Queenie Chan.