(just click on the names below to read more about each member of the Water Deep team)

	WRITER/PRODUCER: JEFF RICHARDS Jeff Richards is Managing Director of Panther Films Pty Ltd and Big Cat Productions, dedicated to creating commercial theatre, film and television. In early 1997, Jeff wrote, produced and played a lead role in his first written piece, Stations, performed at the Carlton Courthouse, Melbourne under the direction of Andrew Johnston. Stations went on to win four awards that year from the Victorian Drama League for Best Production, Best Director, Best Sound and Best Supporting Actor. It also played to full audiences, and was placed at the top of the "A-List" in The Age for the best theatre production to see in Melbourne at that time. The highly respected Playbox Theatre wrote of Stations: "... characters that were accessible and well defined ... understanding of structure and sense of theatre ... harmonics of meaning and connection ... a playwright (of) exciting qualities." [MORE...]
	PRODUCER: SALLY McLEAN After graduating from The Actors’ Institute, London, Sally co-wrote and co-produced the successful 45 minute feature A Little Rain Must Fall, which premiered at Ealing Studios, London in July 1997. She made her debut film as writer/director/producer with the short film fixNATION in 2004 (screened on “OutThere”, Foxtel 2005, Selected: Best of Anything Goes Film Screenings 2004, Melbourne), going on to complete her second short film Brigit & Benny (a modern faerietale) in 2005. BBC Single Drama & Film (now BBC Film) wrote of A Little Rain Must Fall: " ... immensely enjoyable ... wonderfully realistic ... refreshing ... The cast played their well defined characters superbly without exception ... (the dramatic events in the film) were handled both by the cast and writers with skill and sensitivity." [MORE...]
	DIRECTOR: JEREMY STANFORD Jeremy has previously written and directed the short films Itch (2003) - Selected for St.Kilda Film Festival, Finalist: Sheparton Shorts and In the Realm of the Senses film festival, Wednesdays (1999) - Winner: Cinevex award for script excellence 1999, Nominated for Best Editing & Best Screenplay at the VCA Graduation Screenings 1999, Official Selection: Seattle Film Festival 2000, St. Kilda Film Festival 2000 and “In The Bin” Currumbin Film Festival 2000 and Finalist: Nescafe Short Film Awards 2000 and Munich Film Festival 2002, Dog Jaw (1999) - Official Selection: Best of the Fringe Short Film Festival Melbourne 1999 and Trans–Fix Film Festival Sydney 2000, Mean Cuisine (1999) - Official Selection: St.Kilda Film Festival 2001, the television pilot The Hummingbirds for Pennell Motion Pictures and Moses’ Blistering Shorts - half hour television pilot for a short film program. [MORE...]
	PRODUCTION MANAGER: MELANIE BRUNT Melanie has worked in the Australian industry in various production roles on local and international film and television productions since 1997. Her credits as Production Manager include the feature film The Jammed (2006), the short films William (2005) financed by AFC and Film Victoria, Love This Time (2005 - also Co-Producer) financed by Film Victoria - film received a Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, My Sister (2004) financed by AFC - Winner of Best Australian Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival and AFI Nominee for Best Cinematography, Oranges (2003) financed by Film Victoria - Winner of Best Youth Film at Oberhausen and Best Fiction Film at St Kilda Film Festival, Unpleasant (1999) for the VCA and Nailed (1998) financed by the South Australia Film Corporation. [MORE...]
	PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: JULIAN DUGGAN Based in Melbourne, Victoria Julian works as a freelance Assistant Director and Production Coordinator. His career in the film and TV industry began at the age of 18 when he was invited to Connecticut, USA, to work as the Directors Assistant to Sundance winning director David Grotell on the feature film A Bad Spell. Julian's relationship with David began during his time at the New York Film Academy whilst attending one of their courses at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) [MORE...]