Chris Fitchett
Senior Teaching Fellow
Faculty of Society and Design
Bond University
Australia
Biography
Chris Fitchett is an award winning writer/director (Blood Money) and producer (Queensland), and has had many years experience as a development and production executive for state and federal government film funding agencies including Project Manager/Deputy Director of Film Victoria, CEO of the Commercial Television Production Fund, and Chief Executive of the Australian Film Commission. In these positions he was involved in financing the Academy Award winning films Shine and Harvey Krumpet, and international successes Muriel�s Wedding, Romper Stomper, Love Serenade, The Heartbreak Kid and Samson & Delilah, as well as television series The Flying Doctors, Halifax F.P., Blue Heelers and Hi-5.
Research Interest
Film and videogame history and aesthetics, adaptation studies, cult cinema and television, science fiction and horror cinema, experimental film.
