FILMMAKER

Tim Bain is an award-winning young filmmaker and animator. An audio-visual jack-of-all-trades, he writes, directs, produces and edits television commercials, promotional films, documentaries and cartoons.

Once a party clown and gorilla-grammer, Tim has a particular passion for kids' entertainment. His recent animated short ARCTIC ADVENTURE (left) was picked up for distribution by the AFI and screened at the Massachusetts Children's Film Festival and at the Symphony Space in New York. It starred the voices of Eric Bana and Sigrid Thornton as rebellious penguins in an arctic zoo. His TV series KIDD KELLY (below) is currently in development with Burberry Productions and featured briefly in the Channel Seven telemovie Stiff.

Tim has taught animation and filmmaking workshops at Victorian schools for kids of all ages. By the end of each class, students develop their own amazing short film. Tim guides them through the processes of writing, directing and editing to create a unique, entertaining and stylistic movie.

Students from Geelong College on Tim's Filmmaking course:

"Really helpful and easy to understand."
"Did an awesome job."
"Very informative."
"Knowledgeable about the equipment we were using and always willing to help out."
"Really encouraging and easy to ask questions and talk to."
"He was a champ! He knew what he was doing and he was funny."
"He took the time to put our movies on a DVD so we could watch it, which was really nice."
"He had good ideas and was helpful with our costumes."
"Fun and enthusiastic about our ideas and what we were doing."
"He taught us thinks I didn't know anything about!"
"He was excellent, and very well organised."