Rob George joins CVFF

Rob George of Prospect Productions joins CVFF's Judging Panel.

A graduate of the University of Adelaide Rob has worked in film, TV and theatre for over 30 years. Rob’s first play, “Prompt” swept the pool at the Clare One Act Drama Festival in 1973. His other early works included the award winning stage-plays “Errol Flynn’s Great Big Adventure Book For Boys” and “Percy and Rose” and a number of successful short films made for the SAFC. In 1988 he had major success with “Captain Johnno” a children’s telemovie made with the ACTF that won an International Emmy Award. Rob also wrote the feature “Fair Game” which has recently been revived thanks to “Not Quite Hollywood”. In the early 90’s Rob wrote and produced the mini-series “The River Kings” which was a finalist at Banff. In the late 90’s Rob Wrote and produced the family feature “Selkie” and the feature “Passion” starring Barbara Hershey was adapted from his stage play. Rob moved to Melbourne in 2000 to work on long-form TV and was story editor on “Something In The Air” and “MDA” as well as script editor on “Blue Heelers”. More recently Rob was story editor on the French animated series, “The Odd Family”, co-wrote, directed and produced the documentary “Fearless” with Mark Poole and in 2008 co-wrote and produced “Lovers and Haters” a stage play about Don Dunstan for the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts.

Prospect Productions Pty Ltd, St Kilda Victoria
www.prospectfilms.com