iNTRODUCING HATCHLING PRODUCTIONS
Hatchling Productions was formed in 1992 by Cathy
Henkel and Jeff Canin
to produce documentaries, educational and training videos and short
films. The company established the first digital post-production
editing studio available for hire in the Northern Rivers region
of NSW. Since its formation, Hatchling Productions has produced
over 20 programs including five documentaries for television, 10
commissioned works for the educational and training market, five
self-initiated programs and two short films. They have also provided
post-production facilities and editing services to a wide range
of North Coast film-makers including five documentaries for television.
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the Hatchling Productions vision statement.
CATHY HENKEL
Cathy has worked as a producer, writer
and director of documentaries, educational and information videos
since 1988. This followed a
10-year career working as a director of theatre, particularly
youth theatre. Her first documentary for television was HEROES
OF OUR TIME (broadcast in 1991 on the ABC series "True
Stories"). This first inside look at Greenpeace during one
of its direct action campaigns was co-written and directed with
Catherine Marciniak and produced by Film Australia.
Cathy
subsequent directing
credits include TAPA TRADITION, WALKING
THROUGH A MINEFIELD and THE MAN WHO STOLE MY MOTHER'S FACE. Cathy
also now has a decade's experience as a cinematographer, shooting
almost all
the
education
and training
videos she has directed
for Hatchling Productions. She was also director/DOP on the documentary WALKING
THROUGH A MINEFIELD for SBS and DOP on LOSING LAYLA for
the ABC. Cathy also shot most of the personal interview material
with her family and friends and much of the police investigation
in THE MAN WHO STOLE MY MOTHER'S FACE. Cathy is a founding member and
Director of Northern Rivers Screenworks Ltd, and has served on
the national Board for the Australian International Documentary
Conference. She was also
the Chair of the Byron Bay Local Management Committee for AIDC
2003. Cathy recently completed
a Master of Arts Degree at Queensland University of Technology
researching
the development of creative industries in the New South Wales
Northern Rivers region.
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Cathy
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Jeff worked for Greenpeace International as a
sea turtle campaigner for seven and a half years, based in London,
Florida and Amsterdam. In 1991, he met Cathy Henkel on a sea turtle
nesting beach in Queensland and they decided to team up together
in life and in work. In 1992, following the birth of their daughter,
SamLara, they formed Hatchling Productions to produce social issue
and community-based documentaries and establish a digital post-production
editing studio in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.
Since then Jeff has worked as a producer, editor
and sound recordist. His credits include: LOSING LAYLA, NOT QUITE
PARADISE,
NOT THE
END OF THE WORK, WALKING THROUGH A MINEFIELD (for SBS TV) and
numerous other films and videos over the past 15 years.
More recently,
Jeff has established DVD production facilities at Hatchling.
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Jeff
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