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MELANIE
ANSLEY (An Xue Feng)
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Originally
a Vancouverite, Ansley spent much of her youth living in Shanghai
and Taipei, where she learnt fluent Mandarin and Cantonese.
Ansley developed her love of film after watching Kubrick's The
Shining at the age of four. This was followed by
an immersion in Hong Kong kung fu soapies and cinema. Ansley
studied acting extensively in Vancouver before moving to Melbourne
in 1999, where she established scopofile, a film magazine dedicated
to the up-and-coming filmmaker. In 2001 she would help the company
expand into film productions. The Last
Breadbox was Ansley's first film as producer. At
23 she pitched her next project, Shanghai
Bride, at the 2003 Australian International Documentary
Conference, winning the $20,000 Pitch n' Punt competition.
More recently she produced the CultureLink documentary
Dragon Sons, Phoenix Daughters.
She currently splits her time between Melbourne and Beijing,
where she hopes to continue producing Asian-oriented, independent
films. Scopofile's Watch Me
is her feature film directorial debut.
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SAM
VOUTAS (Sima You)
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An
Australian, Voutas was raised in Beijing, where he lived
for ten years. Always an art-minded student, Voutas practiced
martial arts, then theatre, instead of the Chinese characters
he was given for homework. It was in China that he garnered
a fever for films, attending Q& A's with visiting
international filmmakers. In 1998 Voutas returned to his
hometown of Melbourne to study film at the Victorian College
of the Arts. His first short film, Crash
Test (1999) was awarded 2nd prize at the Melbourne
Fringe Festival, before screening in competition at the
Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. Shot for but
a few hundred dollars, the film went on to secure an Australian
TV sale to SBS. Voutas has worked extensively as a cameraman
and director, notably in the scopofile productions The
Last Breadbox (2002) and Shanghai
Bride (2005). His other love is acting. Voutas
can be seen in lead roles in both scopofile titles Crash
Test (2003) and Watch
Me (2006). Voutas is also director of CultureLink's
Dragon Sons, Phoenix Daughters
(2007).
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