2007 Australian of the year, Professor Tim Flannery is an internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer, conservationist and leading Climate Change writer. Currently Chief Councillor of the Climate Council, he is prominent for his Climate Change communication, research and advocacy. Professor Flannery has held various academic positions at the University of Adelaide, South Australian Museum, Australian Museum and Harvard University. He has written more than 27 natural history and environmental books, several documentary series and is a well known ABC Radio, NPR and BBC presenter.

Al Gore was the 45th vice president of the United States. He is now founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a founding partner and chairman of Generation Investment Management, co-founder of Climate TRACE, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees. As the subject of the oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” (2006) and author of six successful books on the issue of climate change, he brought global mainstream attention to the issue of climate change. In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Industry and philanthropic leader Andrew Forrest grew up on remote Australian cattle station, Minderoo, before graduating university and building an investment banking, mining and farming career. In professional life he has created some of the largest global raw material exporters and infrastructure companies. Andrew is Chairman of Fortescue Metals Group and the Minderoo Foundation, among other significant charities and companies. His current focus is spearheading Fortescue Future Industries, whose express aim is to create vast green hydrogen and renewable energy hubs that could transform Australia into a renewable energy superpower.

Connie Hedegaard is a Danish politician, intellectual and policy expert. As European Commissioner for Climate Action, she led negotiations towards the adoption of the EU 2030 Climate and Energy Framework. As EU Commissioner, she was responsible for the 2050 Roadmap to a low carbon economy and represented the EU in international climate negotiations. Hedegaard hosted the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen after serving as the Danish Minister for the Environment until 2007. Connie was previously a journalist, TV anchor and head of Danish Radio News.

Esau is a tribal chief of East Kwaio, a community leader, village health worker, and conservationist. East Kwaio is in Malaita in the Solomon Islands. Esau representats the Baru Conservation Alliance, a not for-profit organization working to unite the Kwaio people, so they can live well in their place. Esau has published in international peer-reviewed journals on baseline biodiversity surveys, traditional ecological knowledge, and incorporating sociocultural beliefs into health care in Solomon Islands. He has spearheaded reconciliation processes and leadership in his region.

Frederika Korain is a West Papuan activist and human rights lawyer representing minority Melanesian Papuans in Indonesia and advocating on human rights violations in West Papua. Frederika completed a Masters in Applied Anthropology at the Australian National University.

Greg Bourne is a leader at the nexus of climate change, energy business and policy. With BP he worked in Australia and Internationally and for two years was Special Adviser on Energy and Transport to the UK Prime Minister. He was Regional President, BP Australasia and worked with business and governments on the Climate Change agenda. Greg was a former CEO of WWF Australia, a non-executive director of Carnegie Wave Energy and Chair of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. He was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to the environment.

Jo was propelled into climate action by the 2018 Tathra-District fire, which impacted her property. She co-founded and is the president of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action.

Jo has supported the team of BSCA staff and volunteers to change the conversation around climate and put people who are enduring the devastating impacts of climate– fuelled bushfires at the front of the debate.

For 5 years, Jo has used her personal story of fires, loss and the path to becoming a change-maker, to lobby politicians and address audiences across Australia and at COPs 26 and 27.

Having found a place to use her voice she now works to encourage others to believe they have both a responsibility and the right to take action on climate, elevating the voices of many people who’ve paid for climate inaction by losing what is most precious to them.

Jo is also:
– writing a book about climate change and intergenerational trauma
– a keen cyclist and SCUBA diver who loves quiet places far away from human impacts

Kate Holden, Professor Tim Flannery’s partner, is the Australian author of The Winter Road (2021). Her acclaimed memoirs In My Skin (2005) and The Romantic (2010) were bestsellers. Kate is a regular contributor to The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, The Age and has widely published essays, short stories, literary criticism, and in various anthologies. Kate completed an honours degree in classics and literature at the University of Melbourne and a graduate diploma in professional writing and editing (including the Judy Duffy Award for literary excellence).

Kavita is a Fiji international human rights lawyer and activist, specialising in women’s climate justice in the Asia Pacific. She is a leading voice on feminist climate demands, decolonial & feminist global green new deal, feminist research and analyses gendered impacts of climate crisis. Kavita worked at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (Thailand), the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Fiji) and is a Greenpeace Australia Pacific board member. She is currently a Climate Justice Analyst at The Sunrise Project and engaged with Edith Cowan University feminist participatory action research in Kiribati, Fiji and the Mekong.

Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia (2015 - 2018). He held a number of parliamentary positions including Shadow Treasurer, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, Minister for Environment and Water Resources. Prior to politics, he enjoyed successful careers as a lawyer, investment banker and journalist. He twice lost leadership of the Australian Liberal Party due to the right wing faction of the party’s rejection of proposed climate policy. His biggest regret from his time as leader was his failure to successfully introduce policies to deal with climate change.

Matt Kean is the Deputy Leader of the Australian New South Wales (NSW) Liberal Party. He has previously served as the NSW Treasurer and Minister for Energy and Environment. An outspoken critic of “climate denialism” he has campaigned for greater national action on climate change, particularly in the wake of the 2019-20 Australian bushfires. Championing progressive energy and climate policies, he delivered Australia’s biggest renewable energy policy, The Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap: a 20-year plan for NSW’s energy infrastructure that incentivises renewable energy and reduces emissions, demonstrating when politicians make a concerted effort to find common ground and put aside ideological differences, lasting reform can be achieved.

Mike Robinson is the Chief Executive of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society since 2008 and Co-creator of “Stop Climate Chaos Scotland”. Through this role – and over the course of the last 25 years – Mike has been instrumental in informing policy through joined-up, collaborative action on sustainability and climate change.

Mike is an advisor to Government and trustee on several boards, mostly in the spheres of education, agriculture and transport. Amongst others, Mike sits on the Board of Transform Scotland and is Chair of Perth City Development Board, aiming to make Perth the most sustainable small city in Europe. He is a highly experienced executive, non-executive, chair, trustee and advisor focused on delivering and embedding climate & sustainability solutions.

As a Dharawal and Yuin custodian, Paul Knight is recognised for his strong understanding of Aboriginal culture and for his many community leadership roles including former CEO of the Illawarra Aboriginal Land Council and his current position on the NSW Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee. With over 25 years experience in senior management, an academic background in business and law, and extensive experience across Indigenous employment, business and economic development, Paul is currently a Director of several private businesses and a sought-after leader with a strong focus on community.

Saul Griffith is an engineer and entrepreneur specialising in clean and renewable energy technologies and the author of 3 books including Electrify and The Big Switch. Having founded a dozen technology companies across 20 years in Silicon Valley including Otherlab, his independent Research and Development lab, Saul has recently turned his attention to policy work and writing, including founding Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia, non-partisan organizations dedicated to electrification, decarbonization and the associated policy towards meeting our climate goals. Saul was heavily involved in Biden’s major decarbonization legislation in the US, the Inflation Reduction Act.

Tishiko King is a Kulkalaig woman from Masig (Yorke Island). As a First Nations Youth Representative she attended the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. The former campaign organiser at Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network studied Ocean Science and witnessed first-hand the impact of climate change on her ancestral lands. She condemned the Australian government for failing to reference Indigenous people in its plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050. After COP26, her article entitled “Empty words, no action” was published in The Guardian and went viral.

Uili is an Indigenous climate change Ambassador for the Kingdom of Tonga, raising global awareness of the disproportionate impact of climate change on the Pacific Region. As the President and Founder of OHAI Incorporated and an international artist, Uili incorporates in his art imagery of the impacts of climate change, rising sea levels, warming oceans, and extreme rainfall, all of which affect future human health, habitation, and agricultural production in Tonga. Since 1993, Tongan sea levels have risen by about 6 mm per year, well above the global average.

A graduate of AFTRS, Mark is a producer, director, and writer with experience ranging across drama and documentary.
His first feature as writer-director, Monkey Puzzle, won awards at several international film festivals, including the Best Environment Film at Shanghai International Film Festival. It has screened globally and is currently showing on Amazon Prime.
He’s produced and directed TV documentaries, Freestyle Man (National Geographic) and Bulls & Bears (ABC TV). Prior, he wrote, directed, and produced several award-winning short films, which screened at international film festivals and on pay TV.
Currently, he is in later stages of development for a science-fiction feature film, I Am You, with producer Pauline Chan. He is also developing two TV series: an adaptation of The Special Ones (novel by Em Bailey), and a sci-fi TV series, Germania.

Johan Gabrielsson graduated from Film School at York University Canada. Johan was the cinematographer on “Diamonds and Gold”, nominated for an Academy Award in Student category, representing Canada. From 1997 onwards, He has made short films, commercials and documentaries. His films have been shown in Australia SBS, Canada TVO, Channel 9, ABC, Scandinavia, and New Zealand.

Films include “BENGT HAMBRAEUS” for Swedish TV (Prize from European Broadcasting Union). The Swedish newspaper, Dagansnyheter, called the film “a masterful portrait of a complicated modernistic composer”.

“DARK SCIENCE” for Swedish TV and SBS (2009) was co-directed with Warwick Thornton.

Reviews included: “This artfully composed documentary provides a chilling glimpse into the mind of a 20th-century explorer”. Swedish newspaper, Expressen, wrote “The most talked about Doco of the year.”

“THE PLAN” (Biospheric pictures). Johan directed the Australian segment of an international production on Chris Darwin, great grandson of Charles Darwin. After a failed suicide attempt, Chris bought an enormous landholding in WA, transforming it into a national park to create a Noah’s ark for threatened species.

Johan is currently developing “THE HUMANIST” with funds from Swedish National TV. The film is about growing up in a Swedish boarding school, where drugs and violence have fateful consequences for the former students. He is also developing the project “CLIMATE WARS” through Documentary Campus Master Program, in association with Tremonia media.

Justine Kerrigan ACS has worked for many years across award-winning films, documentaries, tvcs, and music videos. Originally a stills photographer, she graduated in cinematography from the Australian Film Television & Radio School. Films she has shot have featured at many international film festivals and been nominated for an Academy Award. She is a strong advocate of a collaborative approach to her craft. She has been awarded Gold and Silver Distinctions from the ACS on numerous occasions. In 2021 she received accreditation from the ACS.

Antoinette Ford has been editing for over 20 years. Her credits include a variety of television series and documentaries that have been screened on ABC, SBS and BBC as well as Australian and International Film festivals. Films that she has edited have won or been nominated for ASE, AACTA and Film Festival awards. These include Girls’ own war stories, Whitlam the power and the passion, All the Way, Brilliant Creatures and John Farrow, Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows.

Lindi Harrison is a highly acclaimed editor of award-winning Documentary, Drama and Arts programs for local and international broadcasters and cinema release.

She has edited a range of feature documentaries including: Embrace, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival; 4, which won the Gold Plaque Arts & Humanities Documentary HUGO Awards, Chicago; The Snowman, selected for Competition at IDFA, nominated for Inside Film & AFI Awards for Best Feature Length Documentary and won the Foxtel Australian Documentary Prize, Feature; On Borrowed Time, with Oscar winning director, David Bradbury; Virtuosi, which screened in 35 cities and festivals around the world; I Am A Girl which was listed in the Guardian’s ’10 Best Australian Films’ & nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Editing in a Documentary. In 2020, The Leadership won the Australian Editors Guild category for Best Editing of a Documentary Feature and in 2021 Incarceration Nation screened in competition at the Sydney Film Festival and won the Logie for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program.

She has also edited several 1 hour documentaries for television: Call Me Dad, Blank Canvas, The Healing of Bali, Eyes of the Tiger, and episodes of Series including On the Trail of Ghengis Khan which received the Peoples Choice Award at BANFF, Tribal Life for Discovery, Creative Minds Episodes featuring Geoffrey Rush and Robyn Archer and 2 x 1 hour episodes of Art+Soul2 showcasing contemporary Indigenous artists in Australia.

The documentary SALT about Australian photographer Murray Fredericks’ time on Lake Eyre received 16 national and international awards.

Seth Gabrielsson is a Sydney based composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, his work has been exhibited in international galleries, film festivals, and radio. As a composer he has written original music for multiple short and feature length films.

Martin was trained as an editor to cut film, tape, and then digital. He is across all forms of media and technically proficient in edit systems. He now offers producer skills from a variety of roles in production, development and post. Ranging from corporate/commercial, high-end visual effects (vfx), to shoe-string independent drama.

Martin has delivered programs such as The Straits (ABC), Devil’s Dust (ABC), Packed to the Rafters (Seven network). He has managed the restoration (film to digital) of some of Australia’s most iconic classic films including Gallipoli (30th Anniversary), Black Robe, My Brilliant Career, Sunday Too Far Away, and the 1918 silent movie The Sentimental Bloke. As vfx-producer, Martin has been at the edge of new media experience such as the virtual reality drama VR Noir for Sydney VIVID Festival. Wild Squad a cinema-in-the-round experience for Taronga Zoo and End of Empire doco series for Foxtel History Channel and science documentary from Ronde Media – The First Inventors.

Jenine has over 20 years experience in the film and television industry, producing content for cinema, broadcast and streaming platforms. She has delivered to Universal Pictures, Antidote films, Umbrella, ZED, ABC, SBS, Channel 10, Channel 9, 7 Network, ARTE, PBS, PTS, BBC, Discovery Network. She has worked as a Producer, Line Producer, Development Producer, Associate Producer and Production Manager on projects as diverse as science, history, politics, natural history, art, true crime, news and current affairs, music, pop culture, and biography.

Jenine’s recents projects include Flyways (Feature Doco), Boy from the Bush (Feature Doco), Missing Person Investigation (8x1hr TV series), Hating Peter Tatchell (Feature Doco), Brock – Over the Top (Feature Doco).

Stephanie (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker and impact producer working on unceded Gadigal, Gooniyandi and Bunuba lands, and Impact and Education Director with Documentary Australia. She is known for her feature Undermined – Tales From the Kimberley, which premiered at MIFF and was awarded the Antenna Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary ahead of a national cinema release, and series Voices of the River which won multiple Best Documentary Series awards before releasing online with impact partners and contributing to a record 43,000 submissions to a government inquiry. She has created short docs for The Guardian, The Australian, The West and National Indigenous Times, and made Martuwarra: River of Life with the Martuwarra Council of Traditional Owners for NITV. Stephanie has worked as a consultant or impact producer on Telly Award-winning Young, Black and Behind Bars (Al Jazeera), Incarceration Nation (NITV/SBS), Climate Change & Other Small Talk (Why Not Theatre) and Delikado (PBS), and was a 2021 fellow with UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn, NY. Stephanie has also worked in the university sector, and won two Green Gown Awards for her environmental sustainability campaigns at University of Technology Sydney. She previously worked as a researcher on Indigenous housing, climate change, social equity and policy with the University of Sydney and Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.

Jane Hammond is a life-long environmental activist, an independent documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist. She specializes in stories of environmental justice, action on climate change and social affairs.

Jane has made four long form documentary films. Her most recent, Black Cockatoo Crisis, released in 2022, was recognised as a change maker during its production with the 2021 Brian Beaton Award for Social Impact. Black Cockatoo Crisis went on to win the Change Award for Social Impact at the 2023 Adelaide Film Festival and is currently streaming on SBS On Demand. Jane's documentary Cry of the Forests - A Western Australian Story, released in November 2020, was instrumental is raising awareness and changing public opinion on logging in WA. After a strong social impact campaign around the film the WA Government announced in 2021 that all native forest logging in the state would end by 2024.

Jane's other documentary films include A Crude Injustice (2017), which tells the story of the 2009 Australian Montara oil disaster and its impact on the people of West Timor, and A Fractured State (2016), on the community battle to stop fracking in WA.

Jane has also written, shot, edited and produced more than 100 short form videos on environmental issues, the climate crisis and social justice.

She joined the Climate Changers team in November 2023 as part of the impact campaign and organises community screenings around the nation.

Jane is the mother of three grown-up children and lives in a carbon neutral eco-village, near Margaret River in Western Australia's south-west, with her husband and two dogs.

Andrea is a participant in Documentary Australia’s inaugural, innovative Impact Producer Program. Through this program she is expanding her impact producing skills with mentored training in the design and implementation of strategic impact and education strategies around social impact documentaries. With Documentary Australia’s team, she has researched and developed the impact strategy for the Sydney Film Festival Documentary Australia and Sustainable Future Award nominated, Climate Changers (2023) and worked on the impact campaign for Under Cover (2022). Andrea is also currently Impact Producer of the AACTA & Walkley Award nominated feature documentary Franklin (2022). She co-produced (with Philippa Campey of Film Camp) the feature and TV documentary Brazen Hussies (2020), which was nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the AACTA (2020) and AIDC Awards (2021) and was nominated for AACTA Best Factual Program (2021). At Sensible Films she worked on the impact campaign of the CinéfestOZ prize-winning Putuparri and the Rainmakers (2015). Andrea produced On Her Shoulders (2011) for UN Women Australia and co-produced Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens In Australia (2009).

Kylie Maxwell has over 25 years extensive design experience, specialising in web design, print media, book design, project management, and print production.

Trading as EPrintDesign, she is passionate about graphic design and thoroughly enjoys the interaction of understanding a client’s needs and satisfying practical and emotional requirements in a way that is both creative and rewarding for all.

In her spare time she enjoys being involved in environmental and social causes.