Lady Lash -Meet the Team
Crystal has been in the entertainment Industry for over a decade performing under the name Lady Lash or Crystal Mercy. She has music experience in the Community with the youth and various organisations across Australia, Teaching workshops and live shows at various venues and festivals through -out Australia. Starting out as a Contributor for SBS Living Black Radio, She moved to being a Producer for NITV Radio. Awards and Achievements include, Winner of the Age Victoria Music Genre Award 'Best Indigenous Artist', Winner of a VIPA Awards (Victoria Indigenous Performer Award) for Most Promising Act, Nominated for AMP (Australian Music Prize) Top 25 Recommended Album of the Year, Nominated for Age Victoria Music, Genre Award 'Best Indigenous Artist', Nominated for Deadly Award, Winner of Redfern Female Artist of the year. All her music is archived in the National Film and Sound Archives, she has a exhibition in the Australian Music Vault and is appointed ambassador by APRA. She has performed in an opera by Debra Cheetham at the Sydney Opera House. Her Songs featured on TV Shows include, Colour Theory (NITV), Ready for This (ABC), Spin Out (Short film), Amazing Grace (Documentary). Crystal has turned her talents to film producing, making a feature documentary together with Rochelle Humphrey, titled Lady Lash, which she is also the protagonist.
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Rochelle is the Director of Genetic Circus Productions, producing multidisciplinary work for more than 17 years including sculpture, video /sound installation, puppetry and film. In conflict conditions in Timor Leste 2006 she made and translated a series of documentaries broadcast PluginTV, Channel 31, Maun Boot Alin Kiik. Rochelle, Directed and Produced, Empowering Change, screened in Cinema's through out Australia with the Reel health film festival. Documentary, Urban Dreaming broadcasted on SBS (NITV) in 2018, Directed and Produced by Rochelle, won Best Woman Filmmaker at the Canadian Diversity Film Festival, and several festival awards. She worked with Wurundjeri Tribal Council to document cultural business creating a film archive. Rochelle served as the Secretary of Women in Film and TV (Victoria) and board member for 2 years. She is the Director and Producer of Anarco Film Festival. Rochelle has recently been producing non scripted films in the disability sector. She was hand picked for the female producer incubator at Brisbane International Film Festival by Mia Bays and was selected for Story Works an impact producer lab by Documentary Australia Foundation. She is Directing and Producing together with Crystal Clyne, an independent feature documentary, Lady Lash, currently in post production . Wurundjeri Baggarrook is another documentary she has on her slate, which is in pre production phase. In addition to Directing and Producing, she writes drama screenplays, including the TV series Witness K, set in Timor Leste and Australia for which she is embarking on a co production with a Darwin based production company. Rochelle speaks Tetun (Indigenous meeting language of Timor Leste) has a Masters in International Relations with a specialisation in International Law and Human Rights, a Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in sculpture and post grad in Arts Admin and Managment.
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Hugh Turral is a cinematographer working in Melbourne, mostly on drama and documentary productions. He has worked previously with Rochelle on 'Urban Dreaming' and documenting tree scarring and other cultural events for The Wurundjeri Tribal Council. He won Best Cinematography for 'Restoration' at The New York City Web Festival 2017. In addition to gold awards for cinematography, Australian Cinematographers Society (Victoria and Tasmania branch) for short film 'Bluebird' and TV drama, 'Restoration' which streamed on STAN.
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Glen is a highly experienced sound recordist having worked on feature films, a 20-part drama series, and many documentaries for Australian and international markets. He was the boom operator on Robert Connolly’s Balibo and sound recordist on Beatriz’s War, Timor-Leste’s first feature film (Luigi Acuisto & Bety Reis). He has many sound credits on documentary TV series including, The Shearers, Singles Club, Once Were Monks, East Timor: Birth of an Nation, and MXTV sport series. His last documentary, Abdul & Jose, recently won the Special Jury Prize at FIFO, an international film festival in Tahiti. Glen was the sound recordist and assistant editor on the film.
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