Film Production
"The difference between making films and watching them couldn’t be greater. You can start both by sitting quietly in a comfortable chair in the dark but after that one of them gets seriously full-on and it lasts a lifetime." Says Leslie Oliver - Head of Studies
Jenny Day
Jenny Day has 25 years experience in the Australian film industry as a production manager and producer of short films, feature films, television drama and documentaries.
She production managed and co-produced Bill Bennett’s 1980s feature films ‘A Street to Die’, ‘Dear Cardholder’ and ‘Jilted’. She was production manager and associate producer of Beyond Films’ first feature ‘The Crossing’.
Her credits during the 1990s include producer on the feature film Resistance, producer of Gillian Armstrong’s feature documentary ‘Not Fourteen Again’, co-producer of the feature film ‘Radiance’ (directed by Rachel Perkins), producer of indigenous director Cathy Eatock’s SBS documentary ‘Speak Quiet Speak Strong’ and co-producer of ‘Copyrites’ (directed by Cathy and Kim Mordaunt).
More recently Jenny has produced the acclaimed short film ‘Turn Around’ and the documentaries ‘The View From Here’ for ABC TV Arts and ‘Mohammad Hossain’s Intensive Care’ for SBS.
Leslie Oliver
Leslie Oliver attained a BA in Art from Alexander Mackie College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales and a BA in Film & Television Directing (with recognition in Editing) from the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
In 1986 Leslie was a student, Academy Award nominee as writer/director of the graduation film Tennis Court Opera. The film was also commended at the St Kilda Film Festival and played at Melbourne International Film Festival.
Leslie was writer/director on You Can’t Push The River and Australian Film Commission funded feature. The film was a finalist at Mannheim/Heidelberg International Film Festival – Germany, and screened at numerous other international film festivals to critical acclaim.
Leslie worked in the industry as a director, editor and consultant and went on to established film making at St Aloysius College where his students won national film awards. As a sculptor, Leslie has attracted numerous corporate and private commissions, had 16 solo exhibitions, been included in over 40 group shows in Australia and abroad and lectures at the Australian Catholic University. He also lectured in writing and directing for Screen in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney. Leslie was part of the team that established the UBS Film School (1994-2004) at the University of Sydney.
