David Pyefinch started by making a variety of his own scripted low budget short films in various backyards, including;
Surprise (1990), Filthy Burger (1992), Getting a head to get her (1995).
He went to the Victorian Film and Television school in 1996 where he completed a graduate diploma in writing and directing film and television.  In 2004 he made the short film, Fabio’s Kitch’n which was exhibited at the premier “Slow food on film festival” in Bra, Italy. He was DOP and co-editor on the short film, The Little Women by Greg Williams, a winner of many awards including the Tropicana award at Tropfest 2005. An accomplished sound recordist and editor he has worked on many films and has been employed as senior editor with ABC Television on the popular Collectors program. He has also made many other short films about food and recently created his own iphone app about cocktails, Cocktailsatmypad.
He often shoots, edits, produces and directs his own material.
http://vimeo.com/davidpyefinch
www.davidpyefinch.com

A graduate of the AFTRS, Simon Gray is an award-winning cinematographer based in Sydney, Australia. In May 2007, Simon received top honours at the National ACS Awards for his work on the short film Afterlife. During 2006, Simon garnered six ACS Awards, including Gold for Afterlife and Silver for The Butterfly Man, winner of The Golden Cub at the 2005 IDFA Film Festival.
In 2004, Simon was the only Australian cinematography student to be selected for the prestigious international Budapest Cinematography Masterclass. He received a Gold ACS Award, the Judges Award and a National ACS Award of Distinction, for his work on the ABC documentary Sex, Drugs and String Quartets. 
www.simongray.showreelfinder.com

Born and bred in Tasmania, Rogan has produced and released three short films in the last two years - Apple Head, which won the Hobart City Council Award for Best Tasmanian Tropfest Entry in 2010, Cupcake: A Zombie Lesbian Musical, an independently funded short released in June 2010, and Slashed, a sci-fi fantasy funded through Raw Nerve (2010). Between them, Slashed and Cupcake have so far showcased at over 20 festivals worldwide, including screenings in USA, Canada, Belgium, France, Spain and Australia.  In the last five years, he has also appeared in front of the camera: in Mark Joseph’s film promising (2006), Barrie Dowdall’s documentary Exile In Hell (2007), as the RACT man in the “Win a Mazda” campaign (2007-8), as a fisherman in Arctic Blast (2009) and in Dowdall’s Banished Women (2010). Rogan was Stage Director for Carols by the Bay (Hobart, 2009) and in 2010 was Artistic Director/Producer of Carols, and produced the musical Aladdin at the Playhouse Theatre.  He is currently producer of several other film projects.  http://www.roganbrown.com.au/

An all round multi-talented individual. Mike was responsible for location sound and track lay and then went and created all the titles and was also responsible for the fine cut.
mikesampey@hotmail.com

Joe is the incredibly talented operator and owner of the RED epic
Stormfront Film : www.stormfrontfilm.com

Fours days on constant rain and they were still smiling!
In this picture: Peter Curtis, Matthew Hallett, Claire Warren
also aided by Ralf Williams

John has enjoyed an extensive career in corporate entertainment, stage, radio and television in his home state of Tasmania for over 20 years.  On the mainland, John has previously played Dick Woollnough/Dee Anthony in The Boy From OZ for The Production Co., Mitch in The Threepenny Opera for Malthouse, Spider/Lord Savage in Jeckyll & Hyde for TML in Korea, Mr. Braithwaite in BILLY ELLIOT The Musical for Universal/Working Title, and Pumbaa in The Lion KIng for Disney Theatrical Productions in Melbourne and Shanghai.  His Television credits include Dance Academy (ABC), City Homicide (7 Network) and John Safran's Race Relations (ABC). His Film credits include The Sound Of One Hand Clapping for Artist Services and Back From The Dead for Pocket Money Productions and his voice can be heard in the films Legend of the Guardians, AUSTRALIA, Daybreakers, Mao’s Last Dancer, Two Fists One Heart, in mini-series for CLEO, False Witness, Scorched, and on TV shows Wild Boys, Rescue Special Ops and Slide. In 2006 John was nominated for a Mo Award for his role as Pumbaa in The Lion King.
John has just appeared in the role of Mitch for the STC production of The Threepenny Opera in Septempber 2011 in Sydney, and is opening as Pseudolus in the hilarious Broadway musical A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Hobart’s Theatre Royal in October, followed Bawdy Panto’s Goldilocks and the Free Beers in November.
John is an Ambassador for Variety Club – The Children’s Charity, the Theatre Royal APPLAUSE program and has been a proud member of MEAA (Actor’s Equity) since 1994.

Guy Hooper began his career as a performer with the Sydney street theatre collective Death Defying Theatre in 1984. He went on to work as an ensemble member with Circus Oz and the Murray River Performing Group before settling in Melbourne for seven years where he worked as a freelance actor in theatre (Back to Back Theatre, La Mama, Playbox) and television (Janus, The Law of the Land, Neighbours).  Before moving to Tasmania with his young family in 2008 Guy was Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University's Albury Wodonga campus.  While in this position he also performed in productions with HotHouse Theatre, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus and Zeal Theatre as well as working as a director and writer on a range of community cultural development projects.  Guy is currently the Course Coordinator of the Salamanca Performing Arts Course in Entertainment and continues to perform in productions by the Tasmanian Theatre Company (The Messiah, Sex, Death and a Cup of Tea, Poxed).

CAST
GREGORY                                          John Xintavelonis
PENSIVE NEMES                             Guy Hooper
TERRY O’DELL                                Ivano Del Pio
FRED SCROATS                               Nigel Curtain-Smith
CIVIC OFFICIALS                            Grant Tolond, Brian Andrews, Rowan Harris
UPPER CLASS MAN                       David O’Byrne MP
UPPER CLASS DAUGHTERS        Daisy, Kallista Adkins
SCHOOL TEACHER                        Craig Wellington
OLD CRONE                                     Rita Bessell
CABBAGE THROWER                  Andrew Harper

CROWD EXTRAS                                                     
Kallista Adkins, Hannah Brewster , Tara Carroll, Jim Flaherty, Lydell Flaherty, Breanna Geer, Amanda Graham
Eli Halliwell, Gabby Hills, Bailey Jackson, Tannah Jackson, Kelly Jean, Maya Jean, Skylah Jones, Adrian Kean
Jacob Kean, Ruth Kearon, Deidree McMaster, Alina Neuberger, Andrea Neuberger, Jeremy Pyefinch
Sarah Saunders, Shirley Schlesinger, Peter Shanks, Alex Talbot, Kim Talbot, Matt Tucker, Phillipa Tyrrell

CREW
WRITTEN BY                                     Simon Gray
DIRECTOR                                         David Pyefinch
PRODUCER                                        Rogan Brown
CINEMATOGRAPHER                   Simon Gray
EDITOR                                                David Pyefinch
ONLINE EDITOR                              Mike Sampey
COMPOSERS                                       Heath Brown
ART DIRECTOR                              Gus Smith
COSTUME COORDINATION     Gushi Soda
MAKE-UP                                             Jane Howard
ASSISTANT MAKE-UP                     Tracie Walsh
PROPS MAKERS                                    Patrick Hall, Janita Rust, Mathu Martin, Rogan Brown
DECAPITATION POSTER                 Mathu Martin
GALLOWS DESIGN                              Steve Hilliard
GALLOWS CONSTRUCTION          Gus Smith
STORYBOARD                                     Mathu Martin
STILL PHOTOS                                    Tony Lomas, Belinda Cameron, Dick Marks OAM
PRODUCTION MANAGER              Rogan Brown
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR       Ronnie McCulloch
SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR   Stephanie Sandeman
CAMERA OPERATOR                       Joe Shemesh
FOCUS PULLER                                   Tom Waugh
GAFFER                                                  Peter Curtis
GRIP                                                        Stefan Petrov
LIGHTING CREW                               Ralf Williams, Claire Warren, Matthew Hallett,
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR                           Vivien Mason
SOUND RECORDIST                           Mike Sampey
BOOM OPERATOR                               Caitlin Chapple
STANDBY PROPS                                 Carmen Falk
VISUAL SPECIAL EFFECTS              Miro Digital
CATERING                                               Gerhard Mausz
SCRIPT CONSULTANT                       Karel Segers
SOUND MIX                                             Michael Gissing
COLOUR GRADE                                     Digital City Studios
MENTOR PRODUCER                          Dick Marks OAM
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER                        Abi Binning
CAMERA EQUIPMENT SUPPLIED by Stormfront Film
LIGHTING EQUIPMENT SUPPLIED by ABC Tasmania

The production would like to thank the following for their generous support:
Joan Davis, Brian Rieusset,  Jo Collins, Monica Waugh,  Sandra Graham, Edmund and Lydia, Jeff Michel, George Smith, Stefan Petrov, Melinda Maddock, Susan Wallace, Calum Nethery, Stephanie Eslake,  Sandra Graham, Edmund, Lydia, Neal, Beastie and Henry, Salamanca Arts Centre, Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site, New Sydney Hotel, The Antique Market

A Raw Nerve Production initiated by Screen Development Australia
Produced and developed in association with Screen Australia
Wide Angle Tasmania acknowledges the financial assistance of Screen Tasmania and Screen Australia
©2011 Wide Angle Tasmania Inc. and David Pyefinch