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**ELISSA MCKEAND**

Producer | Principal

Elissa is a television producer and network executive with over 40 hours of documentary, factual, and lifestyle programming for TV and podcast. She founded SkinnyDip Pictures, an independent Australian production company dedicated to bold, original storytelling.

SkinnyDip’s first series, AUSSIE INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (Foxtel, 2019, co-produced with Northern Pictures), sold internationally as INVENTIONS DOWN UNDER and remains a record-breaking, critically acclaimed series, still used to teach innovation in schools. In 2020, Elissa developed and series produced ABC’s MOVIN’ TO THE COUNTRY, which was recommissioned for a second season.

She previously spent three years as a Foxtel network executive across development and production for factual and lifestyle programming, and served on AIDC’s advisory board. Earlier producing credits include COAST AUSTRALIA series 1 and 2 (BBC2 & HISTORY), and recent writing credits including THE SECRET DNA OF US (SBS) and RICK STEIN’S AUSTRALIA (BBC2 & SBS).

Ili is an award-winning documentary writer and director whose feature documentary, THE LEADERSHIP (2020) was reviewed as ‘faultless documentary making.’ Her 2023 feature AUSTRALIA’S OPEN was championed by the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund, and reviewed as reaching ‘a level of artistry that many filmmakers would yearn for.’

Ili has also worked on over 100 hours of documentary and factual programming in the US, the UK and Australia. Her work spans everything from history to science and sport but is always driven by human stories that connect deeply with audiences. Critics have described her work as ‘extraordinary … powerful and potent, a real emotional revelation’; ‘brave and essential viewing’ and ‘unforgettable’. Ili is also a recipient of the Eureka Prize for Science Communication and Journalism, the US Golden Cine Award for Environment and Science and several ATOM awards. She is currently based in Sydney, Australia.

Nick Price is a Sydney-based television producer and writer with around 30 years of experience working across a wide variety of genres: history, entertainment, politics, science, sport, serious, satirical and silly.

Nick began his television career on MEDIA WATCH before moving on to history and science based factual programs at ABC television. He then moved into comedy, working on Club Buggery with Roy & HG before producing the sporting comedy program …the Fat.

Nick created First Tuesday Book Club and then transferred to print as Deputy Editor of the Australian edition of The Week magazine.

Since returning to television in 2014 he has produced and written a wide variety of programs including Who Do You Think You Are, Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery and Movin’ to the Country.

**ARMANDO ROMERO**

**Motion Graphics Editor | Producer**

Armando is an award-winning motion graphics producer and editor. He collaborated closely with Elissa and Bruce to create the animated stories and graphics within Aussie Inventions That Changed The World, and later he rocked out with Elissa and Nick delivering the title sequence and motion graphics for the ABC’s Movin’ To The Country.

Beyond SkinnyDip, Armando’s art direction and motion graphics can be seen in numerous award-winning television series and documentaries including Love on the Spectrum and Matilda and Me.

When he’s not working with television producers, Armando is creating animated content, high-end VFX and TVCs for global brands and agencies.

Armando was born in Colombia, a country he has discovered is greatly misunderstood outside its continent. His first jobs when he arrived in Australia were editing live events for Dame Edna and the Wiggles. Perhaps due to those early brushes with Australian royalty, he stayed on and is now raising a little Aussie of his own.

Dominique has worked as a researcher, associate producer and producer in Australia, France and the UK. She is drawn to character-driven documentaries that peel back the layers to reveal uncommon or unknown stories.

Dominique first worked with SkinnyDip Pictures joining the meticulous archive research team for Aussie Inventions That Changed The World.

Other recent credits include: Miriam Margoyles: Australia Unmasked, ABC TV 2022, Australia’s Favourite Tree, Catalyst, ABC TV. 2022, Further Back in Time For Dinner, Series Two, ABC TV 2020, Who Do You Think You Are? SBS TV, 2019, Love Me as I Am, Untold Australia, SBS TV. 2019 and War on Waste, ABC TV, 2018.

Dominique loves swimming and is practically evangelical about the benefits of an occasional skinny dip.

**DOMINIQUE PILE**

**Researcher | Associate Producer**

**ANYA HOHNBAUM**

**Researcher I Story Producer**

Anya has over twenty years’ of experience across a broad range of factual programming. She has worked with Elissa on numerous projects including Coast Australia and Aussie Inventions that Changed the World and early development for Are We There Yet?.

Anya’s been a field producer on multiple series of Who Do You Think You Are for Warner Bros. and on a variety of food and lifestyle series, including Destination Flavour, River Cottage Australia and Mastermind Australia.

Born in Scotland to a Scottish mother and German father, Anya grew up in Portugal, where she began playing tennis at ten. After a successful junior career, she qualified as a Lawn Tennis Association coach, later coaching in Australia. She now splits her time between Sydney and Portugal, equally devoted to tennis and television.

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