Cast & Crew

James Cowen is an Australian filmmaker, designer and animator with more than 15 years experience in feature films, television, music videos, short films, corporate events, documentaries and multimedia projects. James' influences range from filmmakers Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Tim Burton to the poetry of Roald Dahl.

He helped make penguins dance on Happy Feet Two, designed funky end titles for Killer Elite and made onset retro video graphics for The Black Balloon. He is immensely proud (and relieved) to finally release his own short film, The Curse of Eleanor Crabtree, to the world.

James survives on smokey bacon, great stories, quality coffee, overly clever t-shirts, his fabulous wife and their mischievous cat. After working in Brisbane and Sydney, James now calls Melbourne home.

Graduating with a Film and TV Visual Arts degree in hand, Mark delved into a career in audio post production and location recording, sound editing his way through TV shows and features like "Lost World", "Flipper" and "Blurred". Since moving from Brisbane to Sydney in 2004, he has combined his audio expertise and a new-found penchant for systems and process management, currently managing the Internal Sales and Support team at one of Australia's leading Pro and Consumer audio distributors.

The discipline of a day job has allowed time and headspace for Mark to continue his creative endeavours, including sonic explorations in songwriting in his home studio, and visual adventures like The Curse of Eleanor Crabtree. He currently has about 10 songs in development that will make their way into the ether in the second half of 2012. He writes a blog about this that no-one reads called Shakin' the Rowdy Tree.

Suzi Dougherty graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1989 and has had a successful film and theatre career ever since.

She is a founding member of the Bell Shakespeare Company and has worked with leading Australian theatre companies such as The Sydney Theatre Company and The Melbourne Theatre Company.

She has appeared in the films The Loved Ones and Love and Other Catastrophes, and in some of Australia's best-known television series including Water Rats, Home and Away and Sea Change.

Jamie is a seasoned theatre actor with nearly two decades of credits under his belt.

Highlights include the roles of Garcin in Sartre's No Exit, Barney in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Oliver in As You Like It and Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, all at Brisbane's La Boite theatre. He has played Verlaine in Total Eclipse, Mortimer in Marlowe's Edward II, created the role of Nick in the world premiere of Stephen Sewell's Frightened Heart, Fallen Soul, done both Theseus and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, played Pozzo in Polymorphic's Matilda Award winning Waiting for Godot, done a double-act as a transvestite and an SS captain in Bent and filled the title role in Self.

He has been teaching young actors since 1995, when he first started tutoring at Queensland University of Technology. Since then he has taught hundreds of hopefuls the rudiments of the craft.

Abbe is one of Australia's most in-demand voice-over artists.

She has voiced just about everything there is to voice, across all age ranges and all mediums. She's been the regular voice for Nivea, Myer, Jenny Craig, Snooze, Ambi Pur, Forty Winks, Sportsgirl, the NAB phone banking system, Spotlight, Retravision and countless others.

Known for her versatility across age ranges from child to adolescent, from bright young and bubbly to street smart with attitude, from warm and natural to authorative and commanding, Abbe is in demand for radio station sweepers and Interactive Voice Response recordings, as well as corporate reads for information delivery and narration for documentary.