The Harmony Film Festival is delighted to announce the 2005 judging panel (in alphabetical order):

Peter Butt
Peter has been making documentary films and television series for 25 years. His passion is Australia’s secret history. Rrecent films include: Fortress Australia, which exposed government attempts to acquire nuclear weapons in the 1950s and 60s, and, Silent Storm, which uncovered secret animal and human experiments during the British Atomic tests.

Silent Storm has gone on to win the Grand Prize at this year’s Tokyo Earth Vision Film Festival and Peter is now in production on a film about the Bogle Chandler Case, which solves a 42-year murder mystery.

Sandy George
Sandy George is a journalist who specialises in writing about the Australian film and television industry. After several years as editor of Sydney-based trade magazines, she now principally writes about the Australian market for overseas readers via the London-based titles Screen International (www.screendaily.com) and Channel 21 (www.c21media.net).

She is also known for her high-profile hosting of the Holding Redlich Pitching Competition, held as part of the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia.

Mitzi Goldman
Having written, produced, edited and directed films and documentaries for over 20 years, Mitzi Goldman has a wealth of experience in all aspect of filmmaking. Her films have been screened around the world in festivals in Germany, Sth Africe, France, Spain, the US and of course her home, Australia.

Her productions often deal with issues of personal history and cultural heritage and it is these explorations, combined with her expertise and dedication that have led to nominations at Australia’s AFI Awards, films sold to ABC TV, Channel 4 (UK), SBS and an ATOM award for Best Social Issues Documentary.

Mitzi is currently completing a PhD with the Center for Cultural Research at UWS as well as co-managing the documentary of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

Mojgan Khadem
In 1991, Mojgan Khadem graduated from the prestigious Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) with a bachelor of arts in film directing and editing.  Winning a Certificate of Merit at the Chicago International Film Festival, with her graduate film "Requiem", she began working in the Australian film industry as a script supervisor.

Moving to Adelaide to research the history of the Afghan cameleers in the outback of Australia, she wrote and directed her first feature film 'Serenades', based on that research. 'Serenades' was theatrically released in 2001.  In 2002 the film was awarded the best director
trophy and the Bronze torch for 3rd best film at the Pyongyang International Film festival.

In 2003 Mojgan was appointed by the Premier of South Australia to serve on the board of the Adelaide Film festival.

Nick Tate
Nick Tate has worked as an actor for over 40 years in the international film, television and theatre scenes. With major roles in 13 feature films and over 260 hours of prime time television, some of his film credits include, “A Cry in the Dark”, “The Devil’s Playground” directed by Fred Schepisi, “Cry Freedom” directed by Richard Attenborough, “Hook” directed by Steven Spielberg.

He has also featured in many TV favourites including “X Files”, “Star Trek DS9”, “Dr. Quinn ”, “Murder She Wrote” and most recently the 2005 runaway success “Lost”. Nick also has a major career in Movie Trailer voice/overs & TV Promos providing the voice for “Jurassic Park”, “Lost World”, “Independence Day”, “Apollo 13”, “James Bond 007”. He has directed for television and is currently writing projects for the big screen with his actor son Tom. We would especially like to welcome Nick back for his second year as a judge of the Harmony Film Festival.

You can visit Nick's website at www.nicktate.com