2015 APSA Selection Panel

Veteran film critic and former Film Editor of The Courier-Mail.

President of Australian Teachers of Media Queensland, former Education Officer for Screen Queensland and youth programmer for Brisbane International Film Festival.

Film Director, APSA and BAPFF.

Program Director Animation Department, Griffith Film School, Griffith University, former Director of the Brisbane International Animation Festival, award-winning animator.

Executive Director, Melbourne International Animation Festival.

Associate Professor Dr Andi Spark led the Animation program at Griffith University’s Film School for over ten years, after a twenty year career in the industry (including Walt Disney Television Animation and Disneytoon, Viskatoons, Mediaworld, and the Australian Children’s’ Television Foundation) as an animation artist then director and producer for short films, music videos, children’s’ television series, TVC’s and independent features. She has since been supervising producer for more than 200 student films, which have screened and won awards in major festivals around the world including Cannes and Annecy. She has been instrumental in fostering the professional careers of over 500 creative artists across Australia and internationally through stints as Artist in Residence and Adjunct Professorships, along with mentoring dozens of postgraduate masters and doctoral candidates. Other recent works include producing a 40-minute 5-part animated educational series (2013), animated production ‘sets’ for Opera Queensland’s 2014 “La Boheme” production, a solo international exhibition focused on using humour to foster understanding of serious womens’ health issues and investigating contemporary approaches to sequential narrative delivered via mobile platform devices (Philadelphia, USA 2014), and site-specific projection animation on and through buildings (Zagreb, Croatia 2014, USA 2013 & 2015, Brisbane 2016) Andi has recently returned to industry, working with the producing team at Emmy-award winning Ludo Studio, managing a 52 episode children’s series (“Bluey”) for Studio Joho. Along with this, she continues to develop creative animation-based projects working variously as artist, director and producer.

Vice-President, NETPAC and former Director of Singapore International Film Festival.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker and film academic.

Film critic, historian, and President of Film Critic Circle of Australia.