Shilo McClean

Shilo McClean completed her PhD in Digital Effects in Filmmaking at the University of Technology, Sydney. She also is a graduate of the Australian Film Television & Radio School. In 1996 she was awarded the Kenneth Myer Fellowship to undertake research in the use of computer generated images in filmmaking and is the author of the books: So What's This All About Then: A Non-User's Guide to Digital Effects In Film (1998) and The Digital What? A Filmmaker's Non-Technical Guide to Digital Effects (USA 2000). Her latest book, Digital Storytelling: the narrative power of visual effects in film is being published by The MIT Press in October 2006.

In 2006, she curated the Digital Strand of the 53rd Sydney Film Festival and produced/directed a series of podcasts for the Festival site. Her consulting work ranges from digital image curation for games developers, strategic advice on educational, industry development and digital content. She is the editor for the Network Insight Institute and the author of various articles for industry publications. She has lectured in producing and digital effects production at the Australian Film Television & Radio School, for post-graduate writing students at the University of Technology, Sydney, and for the film course at Macquarie University. She is a consultant to the New South Wales Film and Television Office's (FTO) Digital Effects Traineeship Scheme. She is the author of the chapter on digital visual effects for the Australian Film Commission’s production management ‘Satchel’ and worked with Ausfilm in the development of its international Factsheet series for filmmakers. She has also designed and conducted the professional industry training seminars How Long Is A Piece of String and Adding Strings To Your Bow on digital effects for filmmakers on behalf of the FTO and produced/directed the documentaries on the seminars' highlights. She is the Vice Chair of ACMSIGGRAPH (Sydney Professional Chapter), the international association for computer graphics.

Her film credits include: Adding Strings To Your Bow (60 minute documentary, Producer/Director). How Long Is A Piece Of String (50 minute documentary, Producer/Director). The Tichborne Claimant (UK feature film, 2nd Unit production), The Zipper (digital short, Post-production Producer, selected Cannes Film Festival 1999), Dreaming of Freedom (Independent short film, Writer/Director/Producer), The Beat Manifesto (Producer -short film -Winner 3 AFI Awards, screened Cannes, Venice, Cork, Aspen, Singapore, Montreal, Toronto, Dakino, Goteborg, St. Kilda and Henri Langlois International Film Festivals), Out (Line Producer -short film, nominated Dendy and AFI awards), Desire Lines (Producer -short film, NSWFTO Young filmmakers fund), Smoked Oysters (Producer -music video). Also: Bad Hair Day (Producer), Brave (Line Producer), Fragments (Production Manager), Unacceptable Behaviour (Production Coordinator).

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