Board Members

Tracey Mair has been one of Australia’s leading film and television communications specialists for almost three decades.  Tracey has extensive strategic communications, issues management, marketing and PR experience across the screen sector, including in film and television production, film distribution and television broadcast. She has provided strategic advice to various screen organisations, including Screen Australia, Screen NSW, SPA and the ADG, and production companies including Goalpost Pictures, See-Saw Films and Screentime. Tracey has acted as unit publicist on dozens of Australian and international film and television productions and has managed the national PR campaigns for high-profile Australian and international feature films, including – most recently – The Power of the Dog, Lion, Ride Like a Girl and I Am Woman and TV shows such as Warwick Thornton’s The Beach and New Gold Mountain.

Tracey grew up in country Victoria and, after establishing her business in Sydney and several years in Byron Bay where she raised her family, is now back in the Northern Rivers, in East Ballina.

Rodney launched his company, Cambridge Events, in 2000. Over twelve successful years he managed and produced over 500 projects delivering some of Australia’s most prestigious and spectacular large-scale and boutique events. These included major events associated with the Sydney Olympics, the Rugby World Cup, the grand opening of Fox Studios Australia, the Sydney Harbour Bridge 75th Anniversary Celebrations, the National Rugby League, the ABC, Macquarie Bank, and Forbes among many others. 

He has produced movie launches and premiere events for most of the major film studios (Black Hawk Down, I, Robot, Indianna Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Wolverine) as well as Bazmark (Moulin Rouge, Australia) and Hugh Jackman’s SEED Productions. For 12 years Cambridge Events delivered multiple TV launches for FOXTEL across every genre and format of the platform producing over 70 events including FOXTEL High Definition and Digital Launches. 

In 2014-15 Rodney was contracted to Destination NSW in the role of Project Director for Vivid Sydney, the annual event of light, music and ideas, featuring creative industry forums, an extensive free public exhibition of outdoor lighting sculptures, a cutting-edge contemporary music program and the spectacular lighting of Sydney’s iconic buildings. In 2015 over 1.7 million people attended Vivid Sydney. In 2023 he returned to Vivid Sydney to project manage the highly successful, inaugural iteration of Vivid Food. 

Rodney completed his third engagement (2017-19) with AGB Events as the Project Director for Parrtjima – A Festival In Light, a 10-day event held in Alice Springs aimed at raising awareness First Nations artists and the art centres of Central Australia by sharing their rich indigenous culture with the world. 

Rodney is currently the Project Director for Great Southern Nights. First staged in November 2020, and again in March 2022, ARIA, in partnership with the NSW Government through Destination NSW presented the Australian-first, live music initiative Great Southern Nights. A diverse range of artists performed hundreds of gigs across New South Wales, stimulating the live music, entertainment, and hospitality sectors, and in turn the visitor economy, to support recovery in response to challenges presented by COVID-19. The event returns in 2024. 

Rodney’s based on the NSW Northern Rivers.

Neil is a Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) based in Coolangatta, QLD. Prior to postgraduate study, Neil completed his Bachelor of Business at the Southern Cross University in Lismore, NSW.

Specialising in Tax and Compliance for small-medium enterprises, his firm also assists charities and not-for-profit organisations across regional Queensland to comply with Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission and Department of Fair Trading.

Bringing 20 years’ worth of accounting experience to the boardroom, Neil is keen to assist Screenworks to advance and inspire its members across the regional Australian screen sector.

Growing up in Ballina, Neil is a graduate of Ballina High School. Neil also spent time in Coffs Harbour before settling on the southern Gold Coast where he resides with this wife and daughter.

Rosemary Blight is a founding partner of Goalpost Pictures and one of Australia’s most experienced producers. Rosemary’s credits include THE SAPPHIRES, which premiered at Cannes; TOP END WEDDING, co-written and starring Miranda Tapsell which premiered at Sundance, both films directed by Wayne Blair; I AM WOMAN, the story of Australian international singing superstar Helen Reddy, directed by Unjoo Moon and the internationally acclaimed drama series CLEVERMAN.  Rosemary Executive Produced Leigh Whannell’s UPGRADE and the worldwide box office hit THE INVISIBLE MAN both co-produced with US independent production powerhouse Blumhouse.  FELONY, directed by Matthew Saville and starring Joel Edgerton & Tom Wilkinson and the Julien Temple-directed opera THE ETERNITY MAN. She is the Executive Producer of HOLDING THE MAN; THE TREE starring Charlotte Gainsbourg which was the closing night film at the Cannes Film Festival; and the drama series FIGHTING SEASON.

Rosemary is Executive Producer of the drama series NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN for SBS & All3media.

Brooke has been working as an actress across film, television and theatre for close to three decades.

Her recent work includes three seasons for FX Networks’ Mr Inbetween, Canneseries and AACTA award-winning Over and Out, The End for Foxtel/Sky UK/See-Saw Films, Nakkiah Lui’s Preppers for ABC, Rachel Griffiths’ debut feature Ride Like a Girl, the revamped SeaChange for Channel 9 and Live On The Reef as a co-host for ABC’s live broadcast of the largest orgy on the planet.

Brooke’s career has (somewhat curiously) spanned most formats and 2019 saw her earn her first producing credit alongside Team Captain duties on Show Me the Movie for Channel 10.

Brooke is most honoured to contribute as narrator to the magnificently heart-driven and deservedly multi-award-winning  Employable Me (ABC), Love On The Spectrum (ABC) and Turban Legend for SBS as part of Untold Australia.

She is currently filming The Twelve for Foxtel/Warner Bros. and has worked on two features due for release in 2022 and beyond. If she disclosed what they were, she’d have to kill you.

Brooke’s storyteller heart lies in the regions having grown up on the Mornington Peninsula pre traffic lights. She is in the process of migrating to Bellingen and emerging as a writer/producer.

Kaylene Butler, born in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, Kaylene is a proud Gungarri, Iman, Juru Aboriginal Woman, (Umbie) quarter Chinese and South Sea Islander (Gaua Island, Lifou, Loyalty Island group, north -east of New Caledonia  & Larcon ( now Lagona) part of the Banks Islands group Northern Vanuatu, (Grandfather), Tanna Island, Vanuatu (Grandmother).

In 2018 Kaylene was awarded the Inaugural Media Ring Fellowship which was the opportunity to work at Screen Queensland and NITV (National Indigenous Television) over a period of 12 months. Kaylene freelances and owns KIMA Consultant (2010- 2020), an Indigenous Multimedia Consultancy agency, bringing culture to screens). Kaylene is passionate about telling untold stories and bringing them to life on screens. As Director, Writer and Producer, her first NITV commissioned documentary was in 2012, Toonooba Voices this ignited her passion to pursue a filmmaking career. Kaylene specialises in character driven stories about what is significant and important to them and focusing on Indigenous culture awareness. Her ability is to provide film proficiency to the art of storytelling. 

Since the early 2000’s Kaylene has been amongst the film industry creating content for film with Bush TV. As a film practitioner she embraces networking and collaborating with others bringing conversations for the future of Local, Regional and National audiences. 

Lisa is a multi-award-winning film and television producer with over two decades of experience across both independent and studio productions. She has held executive roles at the helm of production companies for Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe during the making of THE WOLVERINE and THE WATER DIVINER, and was the co-founder of Arcadia, a leading Australian production and distribution company.

Lisa’s work spans critically acclaimed and commercially successful projects, including the AACTA-nominated sci-fi feature, starring Oscar nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten, and Gold Logie winner Deborah Mailman. The film set Australian streaming records on Netflix and topped charts on Hulu and iTunes in North America. She also produced the SXSW hit SISSY, pre-sold globally to Shudder and nominated for Best Film at both the AACTA and SPA Awards. Her television credits include the Berlinale-selected WHILE THE MEN ARE AWAY (SBS), nominated for multiple national awards and winner of Best Music at the APRA AMCOS Screen Music Awards.

Her other productions include the features IN VITRO (Madman), starring Ashley Zukerman and awarded runner-up in the Audience Award at the Sydney Film Festival; KILLING GROUND (IFC), starring Harriet Dyer, which premiered at Sundance; THE FURIES (Shudder/StudioCanal), which won Best Australian Film at Monster Fest following its international premiere at Sitges; and the provocative BLACK & WHITE & SEX which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her television work also includes SLAMMIN’ SAM (Foxtel), winner of the Australian Sports Commission Media Award, and the AACTA Award-winning series HIPSTERS (SBS), starring Gold Logie winner Samuel Johnson.

Lisa is a graduate of AFTRS, an alumna of TAP, and a Small Giants Fellow. She is based between Orange, NSW and Northern Tasmania.

Marissa is a Wiradjuri woman from Cowra New South Wales, with over 20 years’ experience working in the First Nation multi-media storytelling space.

During her time at NITV as Head of Commissions for SBS, she developed and commissioned award-winning stories for programming that were inclusive across factual, scripted, children’s and digital.

Throughout her career, Marissa has worked for GIO Stadium Canberra in live production for Rugby League and Union and ABC in News and Radio.  She has produced documentaries and factual content for NITV and SBS and consulted culturally as a First Nations expert in arts, literature and film.

She is the Chairperson for Us Mob Writers, Australia’s longest-running published First Nations writers’ group, the First Nations International Program Outreach for Sunny Side of the Doc France, Director on the board for the Australian International Documentary Conference AIDC, Director and a member on the Gender Matters Taskforce, the Minister’s Creative Council and artsACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Network.

She has a Master of Arts Screen Business and Leadership from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) a Bachelor of Arts Honours from the University of Canberra (UC) and Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage at Charles Sturt University (CSU).