Through his company Interactive Originals Pty Ltd Rod has specialised in the design and production of a diverse range of technology solutions for broadcast television and major live events. He wrote and produced his first feature film 'Dying Breed' (with Michael Boughen / Omnilab). It was theatrically released by Hoyts in Australia, on DVD by Sony and was sold to many territories internationally. It had it's World Premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in 2008, and starred Leigh Whannell ('Saw') and Nathan Philips ('Wolf Creek', 'Balibo')
For the next seven years Gretel hosted the Logie Award winning Big Brother for which she received a MO Award, and during this time she also hosted TV broadcasts for The Logies, The Sydney Mardi Gras, the Sydney New Year’s Eve Concert and several Australia Day Live broadcasts. In theatre and stage Gretel has been a producer at Sydney’s 90’s cult venue, The Harold Park Hotel, performed as the narrator in The Rocky Horror Show, and entertained the troops in the Middle-East, the Solomon Islands, East Timor and Egypt. In 2011 Gretel travelled to Afghanistan where she was the host and producer of segments for the ABC Australia Day live telecast and an Australia Day Ambassador. The author of more than twenty books, including several best-sellers sold internationally, Gretel has written for many of Australia’s leading publications, was a regular columnist with the Australian newspaper’s magazine and a weekly columnist with The Sun Herald. While a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Gretel wrote and directed TV commercials for unexploded ordnance awareness in Laos and the need for financial aid in Bangladesh, and wrote and directed a documentary on AIDS Orphans in Zambia. Gretel wrote and directed her first feature film, the much loved feature film, Jimmy and Gret Don’t Do Sex in 2011and is currently working on a new feature Men in Small Doses. Gretel has recently travelled to the Himalayas with her daughter to shoot community awareness for rabies . Gretel’s greatest achievement will always be her role as the single mother of her daughter and son… who appear in much of her work ( because they’re cheap.) |
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