| Date |
Jo Lane |
Work History - reading from most recent first |
Screen images |
| 1999 |
Director |
"A LAW IS MADE" - Directed documentary made for Victorian Parliament to explain the Parliamentary process of law making.
Production Company: DA Films for The Victorian Law Foundation |
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| 1997 |
Director |
"FLYING THE FLAG" - documentary
Half-hour documentary about the Eureka flag, its history and its cultural significance. For the Eureka Stockade Memorial Trust.
Available at the Ballarat Fine Arts Gallery.
Writer: Anne Sunter Producer: Debra Annear
Production Company: Vixen Films Pty Ltd |
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| 1996 |
Director |
"WE THE JURY" - educational documentary
20 minute dramatised video, demonstrating the responsibility of jury members in Victorian criminal court cases. Video played every morning to the public in the jury pool room of County and Supreme Courts.
Writer: David Tiley Producer: Debra Annear
Triptych Films for The Victorian Law Foundation
"FAMILIAR STRANGERS" - Director of CD Rom prototype or Electronic Proof of Concept Interactive family drama.
Live action family drama and construction allows for interactivity and discovery of psychology, sociology, genealogy, culture and history of family members. In doing so, one examines the role of family in shaping who we are.
Writer: Ruth Schoenheimer Producer: Peter Harvey Wright DOP: Jaems Grant
Interface: Monitor Pty Ltd Funding: Australian Film Commission
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| 1995 |
Director |
"THE DAME WAS LOADED" - CD Rom
Interactive game for BEAM Software, PHILIPS MEDIA.
Live action 1940's film noir genre detective thriller. First ever computer game production using full live action components.
Released in Australia on 2 CD ROM pack and CDI Christmas '95, worldwide release 1996.
Writer: Mark Morrison Producer: Stuart Menzies
Production Company: Vixen Films Pty Ltd for Beam Software and Philips International
Winner: Best Game, Best Dramatic Production, Premier's Gold Award Australian international Multimedia Awards 1996
"GLUED TO THE TELLY" - documentary
One hour documentary, pre-sold to on the ABC-TV, TRUE STORIES, July 1995
A comedic look at the impact of 'watching Telly' on Australians. The concept is to look at the Australian audience and its impact on our society from the Telly's point of view.
Writer: Cate Rayson
Music composition: David Bridie, John Phillips
Editor: Ken Sallows
Producer: Stuart Menzies.
Vixen Films production
Selected for exhibition in 1995 MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Winner of Gold Apple at New Educational Media Apple Awards, California U.S.A.
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Glued to the Telly |
| 1994 |
Director/Producer |
Various TV Commercials - Vixen Films Pty Ltd
Commercials for Klippan, Goulburn Valley Fruits - various Advertising Agencies
"A Growth Industry for the Future"
10 min. Documentary for Forestry International Pty Ltd in conjunction with Environmental Business Strategies about the plantation of Paulownia trees for timber production as an alternative to deforestation.
Presenter/Writer: Rob Gell
Producer: Stuart Menzies
Production Company: Vixen Films Pty Ltd
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Goulburn Valley Fruits TVC
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| 1993 |
Director/Producer |
"ADDING JUSTICE TO CARE" - Director, Co-Producer, Editor
12 minutes - Commissioned documentary for 'The Brotherhood of St Laurence' about their work in the areas of social justice and future work to alleviate the insidious effects of poverty.
Writer: Sally Carr
Co-Producer: Stuart Menzies
Production Company: Vixen Films Pty Ltd
3 x Television Commercials for The Brotherhood of St. Laurence' staring John Clarke and Brian Dawe.
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Brotherhood of St. Laurence TVC
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| 1992 |
Director |
"LIFE AT LITTLE LON" - 30 minute Documentary
Commissioned by SBS TV and Film Victoria about the 1988 archaeological dig and its findings in Little Lonsdale St. Melbourne. This area was notorious for its slums and brothels up to the turn of the century.
From an original idea by John Hughes.
Writer: Russel Porter Producer: Jo Bell, Ann Darrouzet
Vixen Films and Darestar Co production
Awarded Certificate For Creative Excellence in the Documentary Category at the 27th Annual US International Film and Video Festival 1994
Selected for permanent inclusion in Film Festival "URBAN EDGE - New Urban Cinema from Melbourne, Australia" by Film Victoria
Waste Water Treatment - educational 12 minute commissioned documentary for Melbourne Water and Film Victoria to explain and market their method of processing waste water. By a process of lagooning, Melbourne Water turns sewage into clean water and fertiliser. This process also maintains Werribee as a superb wildlife sanctuary, balancing the ecology with care, scientific understanding and environmental responsibility.
Producer: Carolyn Fyfe DOP: Paul Nichola
Production Company: AAV Australia
"INSIGHT INTO ONE"
16mm footage of a discussion between Darryl Reanney (author of "The Death of Forever - A New Future for Human Consciousness") and The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. This discussion ranged from subjects of quantum physics to re-incarnation
Production Company, Navigator Films. DOP: Barry Malseed, Brendan Lavelle |
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| 1991 |
Director |
General Motors Holden - Corporate films for the Commodore VP series to show at product launch. SS, Commodore and Statesman
THE PRODUCTION GROUP, A.A.V. Australia
Producer: Ann Darrouzet DOP: Ellery Ryan, Mandy Walker, Dan Burstall
"MOZART '91" - live coverage
Live coverage of Mozart anniversary celebration for Roccoco Revolution.
"RECYCLING - IT'S IN YOUR HANDS"
Holden's Engine Company - training film. Video to train employees (many non-English speaking) how to re-cycle the waste and by-products of the H.E.C. factory.
Production company - TAFE TV
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| 1990 |
Director |
Various TV Commercials
"ADVERTISING AND THE TV COMMERCIAL"
4 x 30 minute Video programs for secondary and tertiary schools set of videos exploring and de-mystifying the world enclosed by the TV Commercial and analysing the role of the Advertising Agency.
Producer: Marion Crooke
AUSTRALIAN FILM, TELEVISION & RADIO SCHOOL
"100K A DAY" - documentary - also Co-Producer
30 Minute - Documentary about two marathon sportswomen. It explores the tasks that the mind and bodies of these 2 women undergo, to achieve what many would describe as 'super human' endeavours.
Writer, Producer: Sylvie Shaw.
Vixen Films Production
Shown on SBS series "THROUGH AUSTRALIAN EYES" - 1991
Competition finalist - J.I.F.A.S. May '91
(Japanese International Film and Video Festival of Adventure and Sport)
Also aired on SKY CHANNEL, 1992
"THE COMEDY COMPANY" - series
Single camera - Location component of comedy TV series on ATV 10
Creative Consultant: "Franklyn Ajaye - Upside Downunder"
One hour Comedy program for Showtime Television (cable) - U.S.A.
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The Comedy Company
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| 1989 |
Director |
Various TV Commercials |
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| 1989 |
Stills Photographer |
ABC/Australian Childrens Television Foundation - WINNERS SERIES -
"Boy Soldiers" and "His Master's Ghost"
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| 1988 |
Writer, Producer and Director |
"Half Circle"- short film -
with Nadine Garner and Mathew Green. 2.5 min 16mm film.
"Outside The House" - short film - Writer, Producer and Director with Anne Sutherland, Paul Karo and Tamblyn Lord. 6.5 min 16mm film
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