Meet the Team
Nicola Macindoe
Producer | Director | Writer | EditorNicola is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based producer, writer, and director. Her work explores memory and place, using environments to externalise interior experience, often with dry humour. A short documentary she directed The Art of Doodling (2018) won the Audience Award at Shortie Film Festival New York and was officially selected for Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Unwilted (2020), a short drama she wrote, directed and co-produced screened at Melbourne Women’s Film Festival, Dumbo Film Festival and Female Filmmakers Film Festival Berlin.
She has worked across pre-production, production, and post-production on projects ranging from narrative and documentary shorts to concert films and academic research projects. Nicola holds a Bachelor of Arts: Screen Production from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) where she has appeared as a guest lecturer. Somewhere After marks her feature directorial debut.
Lachlan MacMahon
Producer | Assistant Director | Additional Cinematographer | Additional Sound RecordistLachlan is a writer, director and producer with a wealth of production experience on feature films, short films and commercials. After graduating from AFTRS in 2021 he served as a Second Assistant Director on the feature film Birdeater (SFF 2023 Audience Award, SXSW 2024). He has continued to lend his skills as an AD, including as a Second Assistant Director to Ed Sheeran: Amazing, Second Assistant Director to Birdeater (SFF 2023, MIFF 2023) and First Assistant Director to Oi (MIFF 2024). Lachlan directed a long-form music video, Mein Herze Schwimmt, as part of Conservatorium of Music PHD student Jack Stephen’s thesis project. He currently works at AFTRS while he continues to work on his own creative projects.
Jesse Phillips
Director of PhotographyJesse Phillips is a dedicated and versatile cinematographer based between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. With a Master of Arts Screen: Cinematography from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Jesse continues to push the boundaries of visual storytelling, contributing to projects screened at prominent festivals including SXSW Sydney, Sydney Film Festival, and Adelaide Film Festival, as well as streaming platforms Stan and SBS On Demand.
Jesse has a sensitive, open-minded, and curious approach to filmmaking, highlighted
in his work on feature documentaries Revealed: How to Poison a Planet and A Horse Named Winx. He is passionate about collaborating with filmmakers from diverse backgrounds to bring new and untold stories to the screen.
Jesse has worked on numerous projects, including documentaries, narrative shorts, and commercial content. He has honed his skills in various aspects of film production, including multimedia animation and VFX, making him an adaptable creative and cinematographer.
Linda Edorsson
Production DesignLinda Edorsson is an international production designer from Sweden, passionate about storytelling through design as a narrative force, using visual worlds to deepen character, emotion, and theme. Driven by creativity, curiosity, and courage, Edorsson is known to approach each project as an opportunity to build meaningful, story-led environments that challenge convention and invite audiences into immersive cinematic experiences.
Best known for the Australian productions The Rules (2022), which screened at Arizona Film Festival, Goodbye Industrialist. Hello Circulist (2022), featured at TEDx Sydney, and Neuromance (2024). Edorsson holds a Master of Arts from Mid Sweden University (2022) and a Bachelor of Arts from Avondale University (2019), with additional training in acting, stagecraft, and scenography at Örebro University in Sweden. She has worked on productions worldwide, with recent credits including Tordyveln flyger i Skymningen (2025), Blindspår (2025), The Moogai (2024), Sommartider (2024), Hostile Forces (2023), and Canceled (2023).
Jess Murray
AnimationJess Murray is a non-binary filmmaker and illustrator with a focus on whacky characters and heartfelt comedies. Growing up on the outskirts of Hobart, Tasmania, Jess found a love of oddball movies and has been determined to create their own creations ever since. At the age of 19, Jess co-created the 2D animated short form comedy series Moments of Clarity, which was made by the local Tassie animation studio, Blue Rocket and funded by Screen Australia and Screen Tasmania.
After graduating from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with a Bachelor of Arts in Screen Production in 2020, Jess co-founded Turbo Chook. In addition to writing and directing on numerous Turbo Chook projects, Jess also designs the team’s animated projects and dabbles in producing, editing and voice acting.
Outside of the film industry, Jess’ digital illustrations have been featured in various Tassie exhibitions over the last decade, including: Art on Victoria, Tas Pride’s Out of Darkness, and DARK MOFO’s Stories After Dark.
Ben Anderson
EditorBen Anderson, Sydney based cinematographer and editor, is best known for editing Birdeater (2023), nominated for the Best Independent Film AACTA Award 2025 and winner of the Audience Award at Sydney Film Festival. His work on Birdeater also led to his nomination for the Emerging Editor Award at the Australian Editor’s Guild. His first feature documentary credit was Cinematographer of Two Wolves (2018), officially selected for Antenna Film Festival. He also directs and edits Pro-Wrestling Australia live streams and promos. Ben’s work is characterised by its creative, fast-paced style and ability to translate a character’s inner life into a cut for the audience.
Sam Hutchinson
EditorSam Hutchinson is an accomplished documentary and factual television editor with extensive experience cutting long-form series and premium one-off films for Australian and international broadcasters. His work spans natural history, adventure, blue-chip wildlife, and observational documentary, with recent credits including Bull Shark Showdown (Discovery Channel), Super Shark Highway (Love Nature), and Mt. Hutt Rescue (TVNZ 1).His long-form documentary credits include SBS Untold films The Secret Life of Death and Country Town Pride, SBS Slow TV’s The Kimberley Cruise, and The Queen and Us for ABC. His short documentary work includes The Sandboy (2019), The Yowie (2017), and We Are All Snakes (2017).
Chimene Khoo
EditorChimene Khoo is a film editor currently based in Melbourne, Australia. She is drawn to impactful stories that leave a long-lasting impression on an audience, and she specialises in eliciting empathy through an emotionally-focused edit. Her editing credits include Inez Playford’s Rehabilitating, which premiered at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival; and Michelle Kaldy’s River Town People, which premiered at the 2025 St Tropez Film Festival and the Made in the West Film Festival where she was also nominated for Best Editor. Her latest project, Adam Daniel’s surrealist horror short, A Moment, recently premiered at the 2026 Flickerfest International Short Film Festival. She has also worked as an Assistant Editor on several Australian film and television projects.
Bethany Stewart
Sound Recordist | Additional Dialogue Editor | Additional Sound Design
Bethany Stewart is a Sound Designer and Audio Engineer best known for her work on the Shorts, Hear Me (2022) and Right Here (2021). Her first documentary credit was as sound designer and mixer on short It Won’t Define Me, the 2021 Documentary. Recently, Bethany was the Sound Designer for the animated short Chookas (2024), officially selected for Rhode Island International Film Festival 2024, AniMate Film Festival 2024 and many more. Bethany works at the ABC as a Sound Engineer on shows including RN Drive while teaching at AFTRS.
Aidan Jessup
Sound Design | Additional Sound RecordistAidan Jessup is a sound designer/ mixer and recordist, specializing in cinematic and documentary storytelling, with a focus on immersive, emotionally driven soundscapes. His work is rooted in crafting sound that supports narrative, enhances scale, and deepens audience connection—whether capturing intimate human moments or the vastness of natural and technological worlds. He has contributed sound design and audio work to a range of large-format and documentary films as well as live content, including Wingsuit Flyers:
The Science of Flight (2023), Space: The New Frontier (2024), and Coral Sea 3D (2024). His work on Space: The New Frontier earned an award nomination for Best Sound at the Giant Screen Cinema Association Awards, recognizing excellence
in immersive cinematic audio.
Eamon Roche
Original ScoreEamon Roche is a composer, music researcher, and brass player. He has extensive experience composing in an array of styles, ranging from classical string pieces to jazz big band and ambient electronic works. He has developed a particular interest in juxtaposing distinct musical styles and instrumentations within a single work. This interest forms the basis of his Master’s degree, Music as Surrealist Collage at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Eamon has had pieces performed by a wide array of ensembles and soloists from the Conservatorium, as well as by the Queensland Youth Orchestra and the Orange Regional Conservatorium’s Wind Symphony. Additionally, he has had compositions broadcast on Fine Music Sydney and on the French radio station Camp FM. Eamon also works as a brass tutor, research assistant, and as production staff at the Australian Music Centre.