filmmakers

Dominic Allen is an award-winning Australian director and producer whose work spans narrative film, documentary, virtual reality, music videos and commercials. Trained in fine arts and art history, his filmmaking has always moved between the personal and the political, the intimate and the expansive.

His short film Two Men (2009), set in the Kimberley and exploring masculinity, isolation and friendship, won the MIFF Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award and the Inside Film Rising Talent Prize. He produced Grey Matter (2011), a Rwandan feature directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza that premiered at Tribeca with a Special Jury Mention. His VR documentary Carriberrie (2018), narrated by David Gulpilil and celebrating Indigenous Australian dance and culture, screened at the 71st Cannes Film Festival and won Gold at the Australian Production Design Guild Awards. More recently he directed the feature documentaries Planet Wind (2023) and Planet Sun (2026), and produced Frozen Waters (2025), directed by Anastasia Fetisov, which screened internationally and drew urgent attention to climate action through the story of endurance swimming beneath Antarctica's ice. TIBER is his debut narrative feature as director. It draws on his years studying at the British College in Rome and a lifelong preoccupation with the gap between what we carry and what we show.Miles Allinson is a Melbourne writer and artist, and the author of the award-winning novels Fever of Animals and In Moonland. He studied creative arts and writing at the University of Melbourne and RMIT, and his work is known for its intelligence, psychological depth and formal ambition. On TIBER, Allinson brings literary precision and emotional subtlety to a story shaped by grief, memory and inner fracture. 

Marcus J. Cotterell is an Australian-Italian actor whose screen work includes Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Best Offer, Abel Ferrara’s Go Go Tales, and Romeo & Juliet (2013). In TIBER, he gives a subtle and deeply affecting performance as Marco, the film’s emotional centre, embodying a man adrift in grief yet drawn, slowly and painfully, back toward love, memory and connection. His performance carries the film with quiet gravity, lending human intimacy to its larger meditation on history, art and the persistence of the past. Cotterell also served as Executive Producer, where he was instrumental in shaping the film’s Italian realisation. Working closely with Dominic Allen, he helped bring together key locations, supported cast elements, and assisted in anchoring the production within its Italian cultural and practical context. This creative partnership was vital to TIBER’s atmosphere and authenticity, allowing the film’s Italian world to feel not merely observed, but lived.

Joel Betts is an Australian cinematographer known for work that combines formal intelligence with raw physical immediacy. His practice spans narrative film, documentary, commercial and music video, and his wider body of work suggests a cinematographer equally attentive to texture, movement and atmosphere. He was the Director of Photography on Dominic Allen’s Two Men, and his publicly listed credits extend across projects including Grey Matter, The Pilbara, Planet Wind and Beast, the latter a Flickerfest Best Australian Short winner. Allen and Betts have worked together commercially for over two decades, running a production company, building a deep creative shorthand that is central to TIBER. On the film, Betts brought a finely judged attention to time of day, lensing and embodied camera movement, creating an image system that feels both controlled and searching. Shooting fully handheld, he gave the film its visceral grit and kinetic pulse, using a subtle, gyrating motion to sustain momentum through Marco’s passage across grief, memory and place. His cinematography in TIBER is not merely observational; it is felt - sensuous, unstable and profoundly attuned to the emotional weather of the film.

Margarita Decoster is a Belgian-Australian producer and project manager with over a decade of experience across film production, immersive technologies and the nonprofit sector. Trained in business economics, she has produced and managed multi-continent documentary productions and large-scale VR and XR projects, with a particular focus on operational strategy, international co-productions and cross-cultural collaboration. She is a producer at Syk Flyk, the Byron Bay and Melbourne-based production company behind the feature documentary Planet Wind (2023), and is currently producing its sequel Planet Sun. She has previously presented work at the Byron Bay International Film Festival's Co_Lab_Create XR program. TIBER is her debut narrative feature.

Miles Allinson is an award-winning Australian novelist, screenwriter and artist. He is the author of Fever of Animals, which won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award People’s Choice Award and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, and In Moonland, which won The Age Book of the Year for Fiction in 2022. A long-time creative collaborator of Dominic Allen, Allinson co-wrote TIBER, bringing to the film a literary sensibility shaped by his work in fiction, visual art and performance. In their youth, Allinson and Allen were both involved in street art and made short films and art installations together, an early creative dialogue that continued into the writing of TIBER. For this film, Allinson contributed especially to the shaping of the dialogue and the intimate emotional textures of the father-daughter relationship, bringing particular insight to the writing of Lucia and the film’s quieter exchanges of care, tenderness and strain. His work on TIBER helps give the film its distinctive tonal balance: emotionally precise, restrained, and attentive to the way grief and love are often carried through gesture, silence and conversation rather than declaration.

Rose Riebl is a Melbourne-based pianist and post-classical composer whose work spans concert performance, recording and screen composition. Her music has been described as visceral, expressive and emotionally immersive, and her screen work includes composition for short films, television campaigns and documentaries — most notably her Emmy Award-winning score for Harley and Katya. For TIBER, Riebl creates a score of intimacy and atmosphere that moves with the film's interior life.

Adam Affif is a Melbourne-based sound designer, mixer and production sound recordist whose practice spans screen and music. He is also a musician and artist, known as one half of Roller One, the Melbourne outfit formed with Fergus McAlpin, whose work moves through folk, country and atmospheric contemporary songwriting.  On TIBER, Affif served as Sound Director, recorded location sound, and is overseeing the film’s sound post through sound design and final mix. His contribution has been vital in shaping the film’s delicate acoustic world, helping build a sonic environment that feels precise, intimate and emotionally attuned to the story’s inner life. Reflecting the production’s small-scale and responsive approach, he also worked as grip/gaffer when needed, bringing unusual versatility and a deeply collaborative sensibility to the making of the film.

Sara Edwards is an Australian editor who began her career in commercials and music videos before moving across documentary and feature work. Her credits include Not Quite Hollywood, Machete Maidens Unleashed, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films and Planet Wind. On TIBER, Edwards brings clarity, rhythm and emotional control to a film built on silence, memory and gradual revelation.