Creative Team
Danny Cohen - Writer / Director
Danny Cohen is a Melbourne-based director who has filmed and photographed some of the most interesting and influential figures in contemporary music. An accomplished photographer, Cohen has in recent years become a sought-after music video director, and his kaleidoscopic clips for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Kirin J. Callinan and longtime collaborator Courtney Barnett have attracted tens of millions of views online. His diverse photographic portfolio includes memorable portraits of Eric Andre and Mac DeMarco.
Cohen is a past winner of the Triple J Music Video of the Year award and a past nominee for the ARIA Best Music Video award. ANONYMOUS CLUB is his first feature film.
Philippa Campey - Producer
Philippa Campey is the founder of Melbourne-based production company Film Camp. Over the past 16 years Film Camp has produced many critically acclaimed and commercially successful feature documentaries including Brazen Hussies, The Leunig Fragments, No Time For Quiet, Bastardy and murundak: Songs of Freedom.
Her debut feature drama Galore premiered at Berlinale 2014, The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul, won the Short Film Jury Prize at Sundance 2015 and her debut short Clara won the Jury Special Mention in Cannes 2005.
Other films have won awards at the AACTA, FCCA, AFI Fest, FIFO and Seminci Valladolid, and have screened at over 100 festivals in the world including Venice, Berlinale, Telluride, True/False, BFI London and Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Philippa was awarded SPA's Independent Documentary Producer of the Year (2008); Film Victoria's Greg Tepper Award (2009); and is an inaugural recipient of Film Victoria's Natalie Miller Fellowship Women in Leadership (2016).
Samantha Dinning - Producer
Sam Dinning’s experience and passion for story-craft and script development has seen the recent conception and delivery of feature documentary No Time For Quiet (MIFF 2019 Audience Award, ABCTV) and ABC Art Bites Series The Unmissables. With Philippa Campey, she is currently producing feature documentaries: Palazzo Di Cozzo (ABCTV, Sharmill Films) about furniture magnate Franco Cozzo; ANONYMOUS CLUB, about award-winning singer songwriter Courtney Barnett; and developing TV drama series Foreign Soil written by author Maxine Beneba Clarke. Other producing credits include Treaty (NITV, SBS) and Guardians of the Strait (MIFF).
Supported by Film Victoria, Sam is currently writing a documentary adaptation of Michael Atherton’s book ‘A Coveted Possession: The Rise and Fall of the Piano in Australia’ for Film Camp and a 3-part ABC series about the history of the Australian Ballet for WildBear Entertainment.
Sue Maslin - Executive Producer
Sue Maslin is one of Australia's most successful screen producers with a track record of producing award winning feature and documentary films including the smash hit The Dressmaker, one of Australia’s all time highest-grossing films.
Sue is committed to engaging and empowering audiences with ideas that matter. Her innovative company, Film Art Media established in 2008 with Daryl Dellora, develops and distributes screen content across many platforms with a focus on blue chip documentaries including Jill Bilcock – Dancing The Invisible and The Show Must Go On which addressed mental wellbeing in the arts and entertainment sector. Her latest releases include Why Did She Have To Tell The World? and the highly successful theatrical documentary, Brazen Hussies. Feature film credits include Road to Nhill and Japanese Story, Best Film at 2003 AACTA Awards.
Sue’s outstanding 35-year contribution to the Australian screen industry has been recognised in numerous ways, most recently when she received the 2021 Chauvel Award. Reflecting her commitment to advocacy for women, Sue was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2018. In 2019 Sue was appointed as an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the Australian film industry.
Nick O’Byrne - Executive Producer
Nick O’Byrne began his artist-management career shortly after he first saw Courtney Barnett perform at the East Brunswick Club in 2011. Working together with Barnett from that day onwards, he has been there every step of the way throughout her extraordinary journey.
These days Nick is the co-founder and director of Look Out Kid, an Australian-based artist-management company whose roster includes the aforementioned Barnett, Sarah Blasko, Briggs, Middle Kids, Faye Webster, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Arooj Aftab. Prior to his work in artist management, Nick was the Executive Programmer of Brisbane’s BIGSOUND Festival and the General Manager of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR).
Ben Hall - Editor
Ben has worked as a freelance editor for 15 years, having been taught the editing skills of storytelling, rhythm and emotion by his father, a commercial editor for over 30 years.
He has worked on a variety of documentary, film, commercial, and music video projects, including Courtney Barnett’s Need a Little Time, The Eagle (winner best documentary St Kilda Film Festival), feature documentary Judd Reid, Journey to the 100 Man Kumite (screened by networks and in cinemas globally), feature documentary Cryptopia (funded by Screen Australia), feature documentary Stan the Man (currently in production) and the Sony feature film Spin Out (screened in cinemas globally).
Ben has worked at ABC, editing The Yearly with Charlie Pickering and does casual editing for Channel 10’s The Project.
Stella Mozgawa - Co-Composer
Stella Mozgawa is an artist, writer, producer and arranger. As a member of Warpaint, she has released four critically acclaimed albums that have sold a combined 500,000 copies globally.
Warpaint’s music has been featured in advertising for Gucci, Chanel, Stella McCartney, Calvin Klein, Steve Madden and others. It has also been used in numerous television shows including True Blood, American Horror Story, C.S.I., Gossip Girl, Revenge, Reign, Flaked, American Crime and Suits.
Her collaborations include contributions to albums by a variety of artists such as Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Queens Of The Stone Age, Cate Le Bon, The xx, Kurt Vile, Adam Green, Regina Spektor, Kim Gordon, Flea, Sharon Van Etten and Tom Jones.
Stella has produced acclaimed remixes of many artists including Courtney Barnett, Depeche Mode, Daughter, Shura, Georgia, and Eves The Behavior.
Her composition work includes creating the score for independent film Clara’s Ghost, which will be released this year through MGM.