PHILIP BOLTT

Feedback Project Producer/ Director
Director: Sickpixie Animation

Graduated from Rhodes University with a BA majoring in Drama and Philosophy. Toured Canada and North America performing physical theatre before moving to Johannesburg where he has worked for the past seven years in the commercial television industry as an editor, animator and director. A self-taught animator, he created the computer animated short film, Unfinished Business, in 2002, before turning his attention to adapting the stage play, Feedback, into a computer animated film.

CHRISTO DOHERTY

Co-ordinator of the Digital Arts Postgraduate Programme, Wits School of Arts
Associate Professor and Head of Digital Arts, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand.

Trained in Television Production at SABC and studied at UCT and U of Natal, graduating with an MA in Cultural Theory in 1990. Has extensive experience as freelance editor and producer and educator/trainer in the South African television industry. Established the First Television School at Rhodes University in 1996 and created Cue-TV, the first dedicated arts television broadcast training project as part of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival from 1997 to 2000. Also designed and implemented the "Newsroom of the Future" at the Highway African Conference on New Media in Africa in 2000 and 2001. Was SABC Chair of Cyberbroadcasting and Director of the New Media Lab at Rhodes University before joining Wits in 2002 with a mandate to establish a division of digital multimedia in the new School of Arts.

ANDREW BUCKLAND

Feedback scriptwriter and screenplay director
Associate Professor of Speech and Drama at Rhodes University in South Africa.

Andrew Buckland was born in Zimbabwe in 1954 and studied drama at Rhodes University. In 1986 he was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artists Award for Drama for which he co-authored (with Soli Philander) and performed PAS DE DEUX about the life of Nijinsky. His early works, directed by his wife, Janet, were NO EASY WALK, THE UGLY NOO NOO and BETWEEN THE TEETH. He co-wrote BLOODSTREAM with Lionel Newton. These works have garnered him a total of seventeen professional awards, including three international ones: Scotsman Fringe First Awards for THE UGLY NOO NOO in 1989, BLOODSTREAM in 1993 and FEEDBACK in 1995; and a Perrier Pick of the Fringe Award for THE UGLY NOO NOO in 1989.