Tallstoreez also specializes in high impact documentaries for broadcast:

Recent credits include:

• Moogy’s Yuki – Moogy’s Bark Canoe 27min documentary about traditional culture and caring for country, 2010
• Nukkan.Kungun.Yunnan – Ngarrindjeris Being Heard 22min peer-produced documentary [NITV 2010]
• Is Your House Killing You? [2007] a high-rating prime-time factual entertainment science series for SBS, as a co-production with Essential Viewing, sold to UKTV, Sundance Channel USA and TVNZ
• The Pinnaroo Surfer [2008-2009], a 10-part mini-series for ABC TV, based on our youth media empowerment initiative

Earlier works include:

• First Fleet Back [2005], a multi-award winning half hour satirical documentary on racism and reconciliation, broadcast nationally in 2007 on NITV
• Holiday Camp [2002], a confronting 1-hour documentary about refugee policy in Australia, translated into 8 languages and sold into multiple territories globally

Both documentaries are available through Video Education Australasia VEA.

The DVD is now available through our Change Media webshop.

The emotionally charged documentary ‘Moogy’s Yuki – Moogy’s Bark Canoe’, documents the making of the first bark canoe on Boandik country in over 100 years. This evocative educational River Red Gum DVD combines Caring for Country best practice with hands-on transmission of traditional culture.

During the production in Kalangadoo [Big Trees in Water] and Millicent members of the Tal-Kin-Jeri group, Indigenous students and community members from across South East SA learned skills in film narrative, interview & editing techniques and experienced a once-in-a-lifetime event.

This project built on the success of the first workshop in May 2010. The canoe along with the DVD will be exhibited in Millicent and Mt. Gambier and at the OurMob exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre. The Age and local WIN TV ran stories about the project and Tallstoreez will present the final documentary to ABC or NITV for broadcast.

This documentary for the South East Natural Resource Management Board includes traditional cultural knowledge about caring for river red gums, the making a traditional Ngarrindjeri bark canoe and the emotional journeys of 3 generations of Indigenous men who participated in the project. Its narrative combines canoe making techniques from taking the bark off the tree, to curing and preparing the bark canoe for water launch, with environmental and Indigenous knowledge about Caring for Country.

Tallstoreez founders and principals, Jennifer Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell, are dedicated and experienced filmmakers, artists and serial entrepreneurs. They lead a team of cutting edge filmmakers, artists, community builders and trainers to engage audiences through relevant film-making and cross-platform production, innovative education and interactive art.

Our special expertise is media empowerment for social change: We work with individuals, organizations and communities, who want to share their stories to change the world. Please visit our community empowerment initiative, Change Media – Stories Brought To Life, for more information. Change Media has won the inaugural Kookaburra Awards 2010 for Best Community Project in Australia.

Our work has been sold and exhibited globally and is distributed across multiple territories. Recent TV productions include work for National Indigenous TV, a 7-part prime time science series for SBS, Sundance Channel, UKTV and TVNZ, and a 10-part mini-series for ABC. Tallstoreez was recognized with the national AAMI Best New Business Award 06.

All our projects include tailor-made empowerment services and innovative media products for our clients and community partners.

Our studios in the wonderful Clare Valley in South Australia cater for all stages of high definition video production, including:

• Documentary Production
• Multi Platform Delivery
• Educational DVDs
• Event Documentation
• Video and Multimedia Training
• Creative Commercials
• DVD Authoring and Design
• Art and Video Installations for Public Events

We have produced content for:

SBS TV, ABC TV, NITV, ClassroomVideo UK, Video Education Australasia, Magic Lantern India, Studio 4 Networks USA, Cox Cable, UKTV, NZTV, Sundance Channel, Apple Australia

Our programs have been invited to screen in hundreds of national and international film festivals.

A selection of our current and past clients and funding partners:

Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA; Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts; the Federal Attorney General’s Department, SA Film Corporation, Office for Youth, Country Arts SA, Arts NSW, Adelaide Fringe Festival, South Australian Youth Arts Board, Come Out Festival; local councils and community organizations across Australia.

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©2010 Tallstoreez Productionz Pty Ltd. All rights reserved.

Carl Kuddell – Managing Director
Mobile: 0407 811 733
E-mail: carl@tallstoreez.com

Jennifer Lyons-Reid – Creative Director
E-mail: jen@tallstoreez.com

Felix Weber – IT officer
E-mail: felix@tallstoreez.com

Contact Change Media, our empowerment media training project at:

www.changemedia.net.au

Tallstoreez has earned a strong reputation nationally as progressive contemporary new media art practitioners, who embrace and critically explore interactive, screen-based and digital projection art within the public sphere. Their work shows their keen ability to stretch the common understanding and implementation of public art.

• Love Referendum – interactive alternative reality game for public realm, in development, supported by Arts SA Public Art, and Adelaide Fringe
• Adelaide Bites – 10 experimental short films for public screens, by SA youth sharing stories about Adelaide, part of Love Referendum, supported by Adelaide City Council
• Second to None – a master-class / large-scale video projections for Kurruru Indigenous Youth Theatre’s Indigenous performance for the 2007-08 Pt. Adelaide Festival.
• dreamcatcher – Adelaide Fringe 06 work sculptures, projections and postcard competition, funded by Zero Waste SA and Adelaide Fringe].
• Human Pastures – Adelaide City Council / ANAT]
• Love Alert – a contributory x-media public art experience funded through Arts SA Public Art and the Adelaide City Council
• s.cam – an interactive public video projection / performance on surveillance & body image, commissioned for the Adelaide City Council Public Art Program
• Dark Heart – City of Light: 3 interactive video-installations on fear & art, in collaboration with PVI collective for their TTS Australia project, Perth, and mentor Craig Walsh, Brisbane; financially supported through Arts SA’s Established Artists Fund ,2005
• meltdown – the rise & fall of empire: video projection, SALA 2004
• A cheap holiday in other people’s misery: interactive installation, SALA 2003

If you are interested in exhibiting our art and video installations, please email us and we can arrange to send you our showreel.

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Developed as an interactive alternative reality game ARG for public realm, the initial phase included a series of video clips, viral postcards and an interactive website.Is Adelaide in the grip of a potentially fatal pandemic called lovesickness? Has it become a sentimental slave to romance or a slick metropolis for the cool and uncaring? In an urgent call to action, the Department of Deliberation is conducting a statewide referendum in December 2007. It will ask the public to decide whether they are lovestruck or lovesick. Results will be tallied and citizens will be officially (and spectacularly) notified during opening night of the 2008 Adelaide Fringe.

Watch the viral video mobile campaign clips here:

Watch – Ebola
Watch – Have Your Say
Watch – Timmy

Love Referendum was supported by Arts SA Public Art

Watch – Adelaide Bites

Jennifer Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell are the co-founders and principals of Tallstoreez Productionz. We are dedicated and experienced TV producers, filmmakers, educators, media activists and artists. Besides producing for TV, we focus on innovative media for social change and engage with communities through relevant film making and digital media training. Our award winning work has been sold and exhibited globally and is distributed across multiple territories. Recent TV productions include a science series for SBS and a 10-part mini-series for ABC. Tallstoreez outstanding entrepreneurial spirit was recognized with the national AAMI Best New Business Award 06.

Please click here for a copy of our Curriculum Vitae.