Meet the Team
Director
Peter Koevari
Peter is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and festival director from Brisbane, Australia.
His works are influenced by genre-filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, John Woo, and David Fincher. He has worked on many independent projects and is best known for the sci-fi short film 3 (2022), web-series Diana (2022), and is working on new productions, a cyberpunk short film, 'Quantum Ride', and horror short film, 'Lucky Devil', both due to hit festivals in 2022-2023.
"I write and create films not because I can, but because I must. I believe in excellence, originality, and entertaining the audience. Although I'm based in Australia, I have always had a global mindset. I believe that stories need to be globally distributable, for them to truly succeed. Great films are made with strong planning, quality processes, great casting, a strong team, and a safe, happy, and supportive environment. Great stories are written by ensuring that the principals of drama and key elements of compelling storytelling are met. My dreams are to build more platforms and opportunities for the film industry and make globally distributable products with strong return on investment to enable more creative projects to be born and seen through to conception."
Lead Educator
Lee-Challe
South Africa born actress, Lee-Challe knew from age 8 that she wanted to pursue a career in the performing arts. “I have always held a special place in my heart for acting and the craft of performing”.
Lee-Challe has 10 years of acting and performing experience and has achieved many successes over the years. She moved to Australia in 2015 and kept working hard on her craft to improve her acting and performing skills.
Some of Lee-Challe's achievements over the years are being selected in the South African national team to perform at the World Championships in 2015, winning an Australian Title at the Australian Festival of Performing Arts and being a finalist in the world monologue games.
Lee-Challe performed in multiple musical plays and eisteddfods over the years and has completed many exams with distinction at Trinity College London, where she holds a diploma in Acting.
Lee-Challe is passionate in advancing the profession by sharing her skills and knowledge with everyone that has a love for the arts or maybe holds the same dream to pursue a profession in the arts.
Educator
Kurt
Kurt has been acting for six years, stage and screen.
Starting at the Playhouse Theatre in Bundaberg, he soon learned that performing is what he’s meant for. Some titles he appeared in include; Les Miserables, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia, Back To The 80s, Death of a Salesman, and COSI, just to name a few.
After being in the entertainment world for a little while, he began to study the art of filmmaking and absolutely fell in love with it. The film ‘Into the Wild’, a masterpiece in story telling, played a key component in igniting the fire. After experiencing this level of filmmaking so early on, from the writing, directing and acting, he knew this was the area of story telling he wanted to devote his life to.
To pursue this new passion, he moved to Gold Coast and studied at the New York Film Academy, attaining a Diploma in Screen and Media, earning credits in a variety of screen productions, playing a wide range of different characters.
Kurt is extremely passionate about the film industry and is honoured to play a part in developing the actors of tomorrow.
Educator
Tianna
Tianna is a character actor whose influence stems from Depp to Brando and D’onofrio.
Honing her craft in acting ,singing and dancing, Tianna completed her Advanced Diploma in Screen and Media at New York Film Academy on the Gold Coast and Los Angeles and has gone on to work in numerous productions in front and behind the camera as-well as on and off stage.
Screen credits include The Last Video Store and Ticket to Paradise as well as Dora and the Lost City of Gold as a Location Assistant.
Directing has been also been a big passion of hers and Tianna has been so grateful to Direct both adult and youth productions again for both stage and screen such as Aladdin Jr (stage) and Grounded (Short film).
Tianna has a Certificate 3 in Early Childhood and has been teaching and entertaining humans of all ages most of her life.
So when you don’t see her on stage or screen you can find her teaching ballroom, acting for screen or musical theatre classes to people of all ages.