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About Us
History of Whitelight ProductionsWhitelight Productions (WLP) had its origins in 1981 as an adviser on Film Script Prospectuses for Investors into the Film Industry. In 2002 it entered into Script Development Programs with the Fellowship Of Australian Writers, an incorporated national not for profit writers organisation founded in 1928. (www.writers.asn.au)
In 2005, The Fellowship of Australian Writers after years of helping writers to develop scripts, poems and short stories decided to seek out ways of assisting these authors to get published. In the area of scripts it partnered with Whitelight Productions to investigate ways of funding these projects. With that in mind we went to Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and established a number of international contacts.
In that same year, WLP put together a syndicate to apply for the Film Licensed Investment Company (FLIC) status being offered by the Department of Communications, IT and the Arts. We were ultimately unsuccessful but our team consisted of well-known industry personalities and the slate of projects was impressive.
After that we developed an innovative investment package in partnership with IOOF to offer investors a better deal under 10BA tax break program with a view to raise $10 million per year. This project was shelved when 10BA was abolished on 1st July 2007.
In July 2006, we commenced work on producing a 96 minute feature documentary entitled “Mask of Deception” which was completed a year later in July 2007 and shown privately in Community Centres around Melbourne in late 2007. Over 700 DVDs have been sold or used for promotional purposes since October 2007 and continue to be sold from our website at www.maskofdeception.com
In 2009, we commenced work in partnership with the Fellowship of Australian Writers to produce a number of half hour programs for Television. These include:
- “Take One” – a six-part anthology of student short films.
- “Probing the News” – a six-part discussion panel on community issues.
- “It Takes Two” – a six part anthology of ten minute duologues.
- “Is it Doing Me Harm?” – an investigative series on our environment and its effect on health issues
About Those Involved ...
Philip Rainford graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1976. He commenced in private practice as a business consultant in 1984 and has had such clients as Texas Instruments, NEC Australia, Connex Railways, the Australian Defence Department – Logistics Command.
Philip has also been a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Committee of Management, the largest and oldest writers association in Australia, since 1981. He has been President since 2000. He has written over 200 short stories of which a number were published in the eighties, he has written eight novels, the first of which was published in 2002 and has written four feature film scripts (Tymamid, Root of Evil, Silence, Albert) and a TV Series pilot.
In 2005, he left his business consultancy to work full time in the Australian Film Industry.
Angelo Salamanca graduated with distinction from the Victorian College of the Arts Film and TV School, in 1991 where his graduate film, “Urban Myth”, was picked up for distribution by the Australian Film Institute and received a Certificate of Merit from the Nimes Film Festival, France.
Angelo has been professionally active in film and video production for 18 years with experience in many disciplines including directing, screenwriting, casting and production assisting.
His first efforts at screenwriting included co-writing “Hungry Heart” (Edinburgh Film Festival; Montreal Film Festival; GTV 9) directed by Luigi Acquisto and writing “Closer and Closer Apart” (screened on GTV 9; FOXTEL) described by David Stratton in Variety as a “well-written script”.
He was a member of Melbourne Film Festival features and documentary pre-selection panel for 11 years, and served twice on the AFI Awards panel for shorts and animation.
Angelo has recently written and directed feature film, Hostage to Fate, produced by Michael Agar. His latest project in development, “A Changing Sky”, has received script development funding from Film Victoria and is looking to direct “Albert”.
A brief overview of Angelo’s drama narrative work as writer and director may viewed at: www.innersense.com.au/mif and www.angelosalamanca.com
Back to TopGail Blundell Spent twenty years teaching primary school students left to start her own training business in IT and has been involvement in organising personal development seminars for over fifteen years. Became Treasurer of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and involved in script assessment and film editing, which led to becoming a partner in White Light Productions.
White Light Productions is currently negotiating for funding for five new Projects and a health and nutrition Expo to be held at Deakin University in 2010.