Film Art Media Pty Ltd is a rights management and distribution company based in Melbourne. Principals, Daryl Dellora and Sue Maslin have a 20 year track record together producing blue chip, award winning film and television programs under their production company banner, Film Art Doco Pty Ltd.
The establishment of Film Art Media represents their broadening vision for development and rights management of quality screen content. Celebrity: Dominick Dunne is the first title to be released theatrically by Film Art Media. Other titles set to be released in 2009 include the cross platform documentary for ABC TV, Re-enchantment – an interactive journey into the hidden meanings of fairy tales and the international re-release of their acclaimed documentary The Edge of The Possible –Jorn Utzon and the Sydney Opera House.
Sue and Daryl are Executive Producers of Celebrity: Dominick Dunne and currently have a slate of feature films, documentaries and digital interactive media in development, production and distribution. They specialise in screen content that consistently demonstrates high levels of access to unique people, places and institutions; high audience appeal and is at the cutting edge of innovation in screen content and form.
Sue Maslin
Sue Maslin is an award winning screen and digital media producer with credits including the feature films ROAD TO NHILL (1997), winner of Best Film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and JAPANESE STORY (2003) winner of Best Film at the Australian Film Institute Awards, Best Film at IF Showtime Awards and Best Film at Film Critics Circle of Australia. She has also independently produced many documentaries that have screened on ABC TV including A MIRROR TO THE PEOPLE (2000), THE HIGHEST COURT (1998), THE EDGE OF THE POSSIBLE (1998), CONSPIRACY (1994), MR. NEAL IS ENTITLED TO BE AN AGITATOR (1991) and THANKS GIRLS AND GOODBYE (1987). THE EDGE OF THE POSSIBLE a film about Jorn Utzon and the Sydney Opera House, won the Gold Plaque for Best Television Documentary at the 1999 Chicago International Film Festival.
Her most recent projects include the broadband interactive documentary about WILLIAM BLIGH launched on ABC On-Line and the non-fiction feature film, HUNT ANGELS which won 7 major awards in 2006 including Best Documentary - L’Oreal AFI Awards, the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Feature Documentary and ATOM Award for Best General Documentary Film. She is currently Producer of the feature, THE MESSENGER, Executive Producer of CELEBRITY: DOMINICK DUNNE and about to commence production on the cross-platform broadband project RE-ENCHANTMENT, an interactive journey into the hidden world of well known fairy tales to be launched on ABC On-Line and ABC TV.
Sue was Artistic Director of the Australian Film Festival (2004 – 2008) which screens in Israel each year and currently serves on the Board of the Adelaide Film Festival. She is also a member of the Victorian Screen Industry Review Steering Committee and the VCA Course Advisory Committee.
Daryl Dellora
Daryl Dellora has been making documentaries for many years. He is an award-winning writer and director and he executive produced, co-wrote and directed his first feature length film, Against The Innocent, in 1989. Daryl has been a recipient of an AFC Documentary Fellowship and in 1991 his Mr. Neal Is Entitled to be an Agitator won the Australian Human Rights Award. In 2005 he was accepted to the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation study centre in Bellagio. Daryl co-produced the feature Hunt Angels (2006) and has worked closely with producer Sue Maslin through their company Film Art Doco on a raft of documentary films including The Edge of The Possible, A Mirror to the People, Conspiracy, The Highest Court and Koories and Cops. In 2006 Daryl wrote and directed the new media project www.williambligh.com.au which is currently available on ABC On-Line. Daryl's first film Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One screened at the Melbourne Film Festival and was nominated for an AFI award. Daryl's films have screened and sold all over the world including in South East Asia, US, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Louisiana Museum Denmark, and the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.