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Anna McLeish & Sarah Shaw Producers

Carver Films launched in 2015 as a partnership between producers Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw. Carver is an independent, Melbourne-based development and production company specialising in international film and television.  Prior to Carver, McLeish and Shaw ran Warp Films Australia. Together they produced Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown which premiered in competition at Critics Week, Cannes 2011, Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland’s New Zealand-set Shopping (Sundance, Berlin 2013) and Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan starring Vincent Cassel, which premiered in World Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2015.  Recipients of the 2015 Greg Tepper Award for outstanding contribution to their craft, Carver’s upcoming slate includes Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro, Natalie Erika James’ psychological horror Relic and Jed Kurzel’s Ivan Lendl Never Learnt to Volley. In the TV arena Carver are currently in development on a slate of diverse content, driven by exceptional talent.

Natalie James Writer / Director

Natalie Erika James is a Japanese-Australian director and producer, born in the USA and based in Melbourne. She has both a bachelor and honour’s degree in Film and Television from the VCA. Natalie’s previous shorts Burrow (2014), shot on location in Beijing, and Tritch (2012) have screened internationally at numerous film festivals and have been picked up for broadcast by SBS. She has recently completed short film Creswick, which will have its world premiere in August 2016. At the 2015 Triple J Awards, Natalie won Australian Music Video of the Year, for directing the music video, Mine, by artist Life is Better Blonde. In 2014, she produced Under the Sun, shot on location in Changzhou, China. Under the Sun had its world premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in the Cinefondation program. Natalie is in development on several feature projects, including a segment of the Unicorn Films female horror anthology. She is signed to Fiction (fiction.net.au) as a TVC director.

Christian White Writer

Christian White is a Melbourne-based screenwriter and researcher. After completing an advanced diploma of professional screenwriting at RMIT, Christian won the Australian Writers’ Guild “Think Inside The Box” competition, an initiative designed to seek out and expose emerging writers. His entry –crime drama treatment and pilot script One Year Later – beat out hundreds of applications, and was subsequently optioned by Matchbox Pictures. The project is currently being developed in collaboration with Tony Ayres for Channel 4, UK. Since then Christian has worked as a researcher on several Matchbox TV shows, including Barracuda. He has also been busy honing his writing skills on a number of short films, including Creswick (co-written with Director Natalie James), which has been selected to play at MIFF 2016, and Small, funded as part of Screen Australia and Open Channel’s Raw Nerve initiative. Small has been broadcast on ABC2 and had its international premiere at the Palm Springs ShortFest Opening Night in June 2014. Christian has a penchant for true crime, horror, and anything to do with Bigfoot.

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