Nicole Manktelow

Some cameramen are funny aren’t they? This is a snapshot cinematographer Tony Wilson took during the making of our short film Cold Feet (on set in the morgue). The L-plates were his idea.

It’s taken us a while longer that we hoped, but it’s so close to finished now. The music is composed, we’ve just […]

Tonight I met up with a filmmaking friend and found myself, once again, explaining why it is important for Australian content producers to embrace mobile technology now – how we must learn about the technical and business factors involved in getting quality, original material on pocket devices.
After a couple of glasses of wine, I suspect […]

It was the ABC’s most-watched program of the year, smashing the ratings with 1.8 million tuning in to a real-life whodunnit - Who Killed Dr Bogel and Mrs Chandler?
Who? Well, perhaps the title should have used the word ‘what’. I know I will probably always think about that unfortunate couple next time I sit at […]

The truth behind one of Australia’s most infamous mysteries will be revealed in a documentary to air on ABC TV 8.30pm Thursday September 7.
The 1963 deaths of Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler, whose bodies were found in Sydney’s Lane Cove River Park, have remained unsolved for 43 years.
The discovery of the CSIRO scientist and a […]

Feature: Shooting from the hip
Clouds of red dust erupt from the bumpy track. The clattering four-wheel-drive doubles as an ambulance, but today it’s helping me on my way to film a documentary on kidney disease in a remote community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Read the rest… Livewire, The Age, Thursday, August 18, 2005