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Eddie Cockrell is a critic and consulting film programmer who has written and reviewed for Variety, The Washington Post, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. A native of Washington DC now living in Sydney, he programmed The American Film Institute Theater at The Kennedy Center for 15 years and has written the Washington DC Film Festival catalogue for over two decades.

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Tristan Coelho (b. 1983) is a Sydney based composer who has worked across many genres including concert music, film, contemporary dance, and musical comedy. He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2006 receiving a Bachelor of Music in composition with first class honors and The Sydney University Medal. He then went on to receive both a full tuition scholarship and a Sydney University traveling scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music from 2007-2008, where he was awarded a Masters degree with distinction. He has studied with Michael Smetanin, Damien Ricketson, Mary Finsterer, Trevor Pearce and David Sawer amongst others. Tristan was recently involved in the 18th Young Composers Meeting hosted by the Orkest de Ereprijs in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands where his work Veils received its premiere. Recent projects include a piece for Sydney-based vocal ensemble the Song Company as part of their MODART program and commissions from the Chronology Arts Ensemble and recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley. He was also recently co-commissioned by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Oz Asia Festival for a new work for Guqin and mixed ensemble and was mentored by Tan Dun during the festival. In 2005 Tristan took part in the Cybec Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 21st Century Composers' Program which culminated in the premiere of his orchestral work, Glass Canvas, conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Tristan has extensive experience in film and orchestration/arrangement work. This year he was accepted into the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop gaining valuable skills from industry professionals and recording original music with members of the New York Philharmonic. He has composed scores for numerous shorts and his orchestration and arrangement credits include work for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra as part of their Noël! Noël! concerts and other events. He has also worked as an orchestrator for Australian composer, Matthew Hindson.

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Cristina Coll Vargas has a Bachelor of Laws from the Andres Bello Catholic University (Venezuela) and a post-graduate degree in Teaching from the Santa Rosa Catholic University (Venezuela). In addition, she has completed a certificate in teaching Spanish and French at the Alliance Française (Venezuela) and has a post-graduate degree in Human Rights from the University of Sydney.

Cristina also holds a Master in Social Work from the Australian College of Applied Psychology. She has been teaching Spanish and French as foreign languages for several years. She has also worked with children with learning disabilities and in indigenous communities in South America teaching literacy skills and has helped to promote the values and culture of these communities to foreign visitors.

She has lived in several foreign countries in South and Central America, as well as Europe and Africa, and therefore has a deep understanding of cultural diversity.

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Yvonne Collier is an International Speaker, Trainer, Facilitator and Coach who specialises in interpersonal skills, the ‘People Skills’ to produce profitable relationships. She is also a radio presenter and the author of LAFFe to Success: A Practical Guide to getting Along with Others.

Yvonne’s background is in education, advertising, sales and management. From high school teacher to the corporate world of News Ltd and Fairfax. Career highlights are helping launch & run The Good Weekend Magazine and then being poached back to News Ltd to launch the Australian Magazine.

In 1992 Yvonne Collier set up her own company to bring the ‘hard core’ of ‘soft skills’ to the corporate world. She is the 2004 President of the NSW Chapter of National Speakers.

Yvonne’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree, Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.

She holds a Master Practitioner certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and is accredited to administer The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Yvonne is a Certified Speaking Professional. CSP is the highest international accreditation awarded by the Global Speakers Federation. This requires stringent criteria in Expertise, Eloquence & Enterprise.

Yvonne’s workshops are highly inspirational, experiential and fun filled for learning and development and produce lasting results.

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Irwin has a BA in Modern French Litterature from Aix-Marseille University and a MA in Teaching French as a Foreign Language from University of Avignon. He has taught in several institutions in Sydney such as MacQuarie University, Alliance Française and Newington College. He also has extensive teaching experience in other countries, most particularly in India.

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Confucius Institute. Tutor of CCE

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Bill Cong. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Rowan Conroy has been enthusiastic about photography since he was 14 when he commandeered the family Pentax K1000 SLR. Since then he has gone on to lead a life as both an artist and a consultant working with large cultural institutions for publication and project based initiatives, exhibiting throughout Australia and internationally and producing large scale prints in his own studio. He has has a number of recent solo exhibitions, is the recipient of a number of grants, and has been a finalist in a number of major art prizes. His works are held in numerous public and private collections. For more information: www.rowanconroy.com

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Rebecca Conway is Curator, Ethnography at the Macleay Museum and previously worked at the Australian Museum. She curated People, Power, Politics: the first generation of anthropologists at the University of Sydney for the Macleay in 2008, and was project officer for Dr Gumbula’s exhibition Makarr-garma. The exhibition draws on an extraordinary range of material relating to everyday Yolgnu life, from crocodile specimens to bark paintings to feather strings and photographs taken of his community in the 1920s and 1940s. Dr Gumbula was invited to curate an exhibition as a response to the ways that historic collections are represented by non-Yolngu internationally.

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Alison Conyer. Tutor of CCE