The core team
Jeffory Asselin
BMMedia – Media Producer/Manager - Producer/Writer/Director
Jeff is a Murdoch University Multimedia graduate. Jeff has ten years experience as an independent drama and documentary filmmaker as well as seven years in the position as Producer/Manager for Murdoch University.
Jeffory Asselin’s first commissioned Screenwest film 'Little Man' 2003, which he produced for Cannes award winning director, Julius Avery, received four nominations in the 18th West Australian Screen Awards and won Best Actor. It also won the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Gold Award in Western Australia and the ACS National Distinction Award. In 2005 Jeff was selected for the producer's SHOWTIME Talent Assist Scheme at the Screen Producers of Australia (SPAA) conference on the Gold Coast.
Jeff’s second commissioned Screenwest film ‘My Shout’, (2005) which he produced, went on to win the Best Drama Production and Best Production Design at the 20th West Australian Screen Awards. It also went on to win Best Production Design at 2007 Bondi Short Film Festival, Distinction at Adelaide Shorts, and Silver at the 2007 ACS Awards. Jeff has recently completed a suit of short films including 'Happy Haven' which he wrote and directed and was released in 2010. His most recent government commissioned film ‘Billabong’, which he directed/wrote was released in 2011.
Jeff is currently developing, and is attached to several feature film projects, which has received development funding from the state government, Screenwest.
Ashley Sillifant
BAMedia - Coordinater - Producer/Writer/Director
Ash is a proud Bibblemun Noongar marman from the southwest of Western Australia. After an early interest in film he completed a degree in media studies at Murdoch University, Western Australia.
Ash has since gone onto write and direct the multi award winning drama including ‘Broken Bonds’, which won ‘Best Drama’ and was runner-up ‘People Choice’ at the 2005 WA Screen Awards. The film was selected as part of St Kilda’s Film Festival National Tour. Ash has worked on various award-winning productions and alongside other Indigenous filmmakers such as Warrick Thornton and Alan Collins.
Antony Webb
BA Film & Television, First Class Hon. Screen Arts – Director of Photography & Senior Editor
Antony studied film at Curtin University. He Graduated in 2002 and then received his 1st class honours in screen arts in 2004. He is a multi award winning filmmaker having worked in a variety of roles such as Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Writer and Editor on a number of feature and short films. These include the features The Actress, Plum Role and The Toll along with the shorts Waiting for Naval Base Lily, Boxing Day, At Play, Before Closing, The Billabong, The Dinner Meeting and Tinglewood.
Collectively his films have been nominated and won a variety of awards including several international best film awards.
He won a silver award at the 2009 ACS awards for his cinematography of Tinglewood. In 2009 he was awarded the Young Filmmaker of the Year award at the West Australian Screen Awards. In 2010 his short film Tinglewood was nominated for an AFI award and was picked up for distribution through flickerfest.
