SPAA Log 3

Who are they?

3rd log, 12th week, not a great ratio but I'll have to deal with it.

Today children we find out who SPAA is, now I'll start with whoever sounds the most significant as honestly I have no idea how the ladder of rank or promotion works; in what case, I'll find the definition of the occupation each person takes and place it next to the name of that role after I move through each of them. Let's start with who I'm assuming is the big cheese.

Geoff Brown
Executive Director (A person responsible for the administration of a business, I think I'm on the right track)

Brown has been working with the SPAA for quite some time, between 1995 and 2000 he was the Commercial Affairs Manager for SPAA overseeing the commercial and industrial matters which affected the independant film and television production sector. I'm guessing that means 'make sure there's no screwing over' going on between groups and companies. In 2002 he was appointed as the Executive Director of the SPAA and, since then, has held his place in the Association. He must have been born for the job considering in the past 16 years of his life he's held a key, senior management role.

Bethwyn Serow
SPAA Production Executive (According to Wikipedia*, doesn't participate in anything but is still responsible for the success of the project)

Just looking for some information on her at the moment, bare with me; apparently she worked on 'Beneath Indian Skies' which was Produced back in 1990 as Director, she's done research for a story on Tim Costello. Serow also takes a managerial role in Television Commercials.

Katie Fagan
TVC & Levies Officer (Pretty much the debt collector I suppose)

Okay. Well there are pleny of Katie Fagan's in the world, some of them even with 'Fagan' as their fake name. One 'Linkedin' profile was based in Sydney so I'm assuming that's her, but it's far out of date; it does state that she works/ed for Online Marketing at MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art I'm guessing, her position was in the Industry was for Arts and Crafts). There's also another Katie Fagan in Sydney who's a Country and Folk singer, strangeworld.

Julie Marlow
Documentary Policy Manager (Nup, the internet doesn't want to answer this one, I'm going to guess...making sure there are no loop holes in agreements or contracts for anything related to Documentary. Or! Or actual documentation of certain things, or everything. Either one)

Produced several projects between 2003 and 2007, also wrote and applied for funding for two of them

Gaylee Butler
Conference Director (Woah, big job; here are a couple of things you're expected to perform as the Conference Director. Identify key industry trends and hot-button issues, conduct intensive primary market research to define conference topics Create compelling program agendas based on your research. Here I thought the person simply directed a meeting or something)

Made it to the red carpet World Premier of Star Trek, one perk of the things being high up in a film organisation benefits you with? Surely there was some discount that came from it. Doesn't update her Twitter so much. She starred in a movie titled 'Comedy Gold' as herself in 2008. I don't know, it's a bit odd how all of these high ups in the film industry don't have Facebook profiles and barely update their Twitter. I mean, Graeme updated his Twitter and Facebook everyday from what I witnessed. When you're this high up does it mean you don't need Facebook and can attend world premiers of movies? Sounds like some sort of heaven.

Emma Beaumont
Sponsorship and Special Events (I'm going to assume that it's a role of finding money for the SPAA and hosting the special events such as the SPAA Fringe, etc.)

Tatyana Tinetti
Accounts/Member Services (Looking after the members of SPAA, that being the other Producers in Australia)

Emma Thompson
Administrative Officer (Manages the whole affair, kind of like a human alarm clock)

Cynthia Cano & Lucas Pozzey
Administration Team (Takes some weight off of the Administrative Officer)

And after that there's the SPAA Council, council President and people for each media; and after that there are the individual people who represent SPAA in each state. So yeah, and then there's the thousands of Producers hooked up with SPAA; big family here.



*Note: Google didn't give me a proper definition, instead the first link was for Wikipedia which I don't usually use as a source.

Slow

Grawrd. I don't even know what week I'm in anymore.