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Martin Armiger has written music for many films; fourteen features including Clubland, Thank God he met Lizzie, Sweetie, Pure S and Young Einstein; telemovies like Lizard King, The Secret Life of Us and Cody; a dozen mini-series including Marking Time, Come In Spinner and Bodysurfers, short films like Fetch, documentaries like Cane Toads and The Wonderful World of Dogs, series such as Sweet and Sour, Police Rescue, and Ketchup, and the current on-air themes for ABC TV News

His work has won many awards including the AFI Best Music for Film, APRA Best Music for TV and Best Soundtrack Album Awards, ARIA best Adult Contemporary Album, AGSC Best Music for Television Mini-series, and Best TV Theme Music, ABC Countdown Best Record Producer, and Roadrunner Magazine Best Songwriter Awards. For many years he played guitar for a living, touring and making records with the group The Sports.

He was President of the Australian Guild Of Screen Composers for seven years, and has served on the board of Screenrights for ten years. He is also an occasional novelist and journalist, and is foundation Head of Screen Music at the Australian Film, TV & Radio School.

Ash Gibson Greig has composed for numerous series and documentaries for TV here and abroad (including Who Do You Think You Are, SAS: Search for Warriors, Jandamarra' s War, Leaky Boat, and Channel 7's children's series Time Trackers.) Ash has also composed the music for over 50 plays for theatre companies including Black Swan, Thin Ice, The Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company. Ash has several awards and many nominations for his work from the WA Screen Awards, and the APRA / Australian Guild of Screen Awards (including Who Do You Think You Are, Death of the Megabeasts, and won the in 2007 for the short film Iron Bird.) Ash also composed the music for the recent feature film Big Mamma's Boy.

Petris Torres is co-owner of Wawili Sound Solutions, a sound reinforcement business that focuses upon servicing the film and Public Address industry throughout the Kimberley region. He possesses a high level of technical knowledge regarding the audio and IT industries.

Petris was born in Broome and was inspired by the local musicians and local music scene that is unique to Broome. By the age of 14 he had picked up the guitar and was taught and mentored by his uncle Wane Barker (Jowandi) and taught the subtleties of musical expression. Petris then performed with Wayne and friends at Broome's Moonlight festival and various other events. He then moved away and worked on a demo with Penryhn Styles in Cairns, which is a more contemporary style of music that helped him excel in digital recording and production. Petris then left Cairns and began his career in the film industry.

Petris has done sound post, track lay, music composition, artist tracking and mastering for two series of Milli Milli Nganka, music composition for three Deadly Yarns comprised of ('Bollywood Dreaming', 'Music Men' and 'Running Riot'), and numerous micro documentaries and half hour doco's (Nganampa) for CAMMA networks. Petris just recently co-produced/composed the music for "Jandamarra's War" with Ash Gibson Greig, which was a welcome challenge, bringing indigenous and Kimberley elements into a orchestral score.

Petris has done extensive artist tracking for music libraries, ADR for film and television for various production companies. Petris has also done many recordings and song compositions outside of the film industry. His business also servicse the live sound industry by providing live sound, lighting, staging, engineers and equipment.

Petris is a high energy business person who is optimistic about the future, He has just recently built the only purpose-built HD recording facility in the Kimberley region, boasting the latest in audio equipment, which the music community is very excited about.

Currently, Petris is working part time in an effort to train and mentor young indigenous people into the building industry and hopes to one day mentor young indigenous people into business.

His hope is for young indigenous people in the Kimberley to have great, meaningful futures and to overcome the hurdles that indigenous people may encounter.

Matteo Zingales is a composer recognised for his compelling and engaging music. Whether with subtlety or gusto, his strong thematic, emotional and dramatic effects capture hearts and minds. An AFTRS graduate, Matteo has worked across a wide spectrum of original music scores with a special focus on television, film and new media.

Matteo's experience includes scores for the award-winning films Unfinished Sky (co-composer) and Broken Sun. He has written for over 400 episodes of television including the medical drama All Saints and Medical Response Unit, which is currently on-air in over 15 countries. Matteo is currently the composer for the Seven Network's "Winners and Losers".

His work also includes music for numerous award-winning documentaries and short films including Peter Templeman's Splintered, awarded Best Film at both the St Kilda and Slamdance Film Festivals; Bluepoles starring Sam Worthington and recently he also collaborated with acclaimed director Phillip Noyce on a collection of short films created for Australia's 2022 FIFA World Cup bid in Zurich.

Additional credits include original score for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Cisco Pavilion; By Your Side & Lachlan Macquarie: Father of Australia both feature length documentaries; a dance piece written for a leading Shanghai Dance troupe; and television commercials for international brands including UPS, Lexus, Nokia, McDonalds, Club Chocolate, NRMA, and a 60-second special TVC for the Indian worldwide energy conglomerate ABG.

A co-founder and director of music collective Sonar Music, Matteo enjoys collaborating with energetic, creative people on dynamic and engaging projects.

Recognised as one of Australia's leading international screen composers, Christopher Elves is renowned for his ability to score truly "filmic" music for television as well as film. His ability to compose everything from a simple emotive piano motif right through to sweeping epic action score, all in a manner that welds seamlessly to the nuances of character and narrative, has led to no fewer than five APRA/AGSC Screen Music Awards over the last six years.

In 2009 Christopher was recognised internationally for his outstanding score for the animated series "Animalia" with an Emmy in the category 'Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition.

In 2010 Christopher's prolific output has been further rewarded with two nominations for the APRA/AGSC awards, one of which recognised him as one of the top four most performed Australian screen composers in the World.

Currently Christopher is scoring a new international animated TV series and a three part mini-series for SBS.

Christopher lives in Brisbane Australia, with wife Lee-Anne and daughter Emma.

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