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Peter Beilby

General Manager
Peter Beilby was the co-founder and editor of Cinema Papers. He is now a film producer and works in film and television.

Rolando Caputo

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

Scott Murray

Co-Editor
Scott Murray is a filmmaker.

Michelle Carey

Film Festivals Editor
Michelle Carey, 32, lives in Melbourne. She also programs films for the Melbourne Cinémathèque and the Melbourne International Film Festival.

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.

Cerise Howard

Web Designer
Cerise Howard studied film at La Trobe University and was a coordinator of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival from 2000–2002. A musician, a writer at work on her first novel, and a Jill of all arts, the filmmakers to exert the greatest fascination upon her include Argento, Buñuel, Tsukamoto, Miike, Keaton, Jackson, Maddin, Franco, Raimi, Svankmajer, Borowczyk, Miyazaki, Kurosawa, Polanski and Tarkovsky. And Bergman, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Gilliam, Bava, Almodóvar etc.

Adrian Danks

Cteq Editor
Dr Adrian Danks, 39, is Head of Cinema Studies and teaches Cinema and Cultural Studies in the School of Applied 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.

Senses of Cinema committee

Fiona A. Villella; Cerise Howard; Peter Beilby; Michelle Carey; Deb Verhoeven; Peter Hourigan, Gary Andrews and Anna Reeves.

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