About Storytelling

We are a consultancy firm that specialises in story, screenplay and film development.

Our focus is on developing writers and their stories in all forms, across all genres and from all countries, to achieve the highest possible standards of story telling, and to find ways to bring these stories to a worldwide audience.

We offer consultants in a wide variety of specialisations including:

• Drama
• Comedy
• Documentary
• Low Budget/Indie
• High Concept
• Adaptation
• Theatre
• Short films
• Animation/Digi Effects
• New Media
• Genre stories
• Funding applications
• Budgets
• feasibility

Our people
We have consultants in Sydney, Melbourne, London and Los Angeles.



...Louise Woodruff Sanz

Louise completed her Master of Arts Film and Television (Screenwriting) in 2003 at The Australian Film Television and Radio School after receiving the Columbia Tri-Star Sony Foundation Screen Scholar Award for her work ‘The Hanoford Boys’. Prior to that she worked in development in Los Angeles after optioning her first feature and had her work performed with the International Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Louise has written for Life Support (SBS) and worked on numerous short films as either writer, director or script editor including The Passion of Her, Six Days Straight and Weeping Willow, as well as feature length scripts and stage plays including Strangers Make The Best Candy and The Singularity - UK. Louise was the recipient of the FTO Graduate Award for Writing in 2003, The Tobin Award and a Peter Ustinov Commendation in 1999. During her time in Australia Louise also worked as a development assistant for producer Mark Lazarus (Australian Rules) at Filmgraphics and as a freelance script editor for SBS. She interned in the script department of Home & Away, All Saints and Water Rats and guest-lectured at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
In 2003 Louise was the co-founder of London based Thieving Dingo Productions (specialising in Australian theatre and developing Australian talent in the UK) where she produced two plays at The Clapham Grand and organised readings of new Australian works, as well as having her own work read at The Old Vic Theatre. Louise is currently developing numerous feature, television, editorial and new media works, including the Internet show, and zine – ‘The Ivy Coal Show’. Her spare time goes to venting her frustrations via popular editorial blog The Problematic World of Lou


...Nicholas Price

Producer Nicholas Price grew up in the television industry, his family production company producing the Mike Walsh Show (Midday Show) amongst others. He has a Degree in Economics from Newcastle University and after graduating worked at Channel Seven before being accepted to the Australian Film Television & Radio School where he gained a Master of Arts Film & Television Producing. Nick spent the following year working part time as a producing co-ordinator at AFTRS for Pat Lovell and helping with funding applications and script reports at Dragonette films before starting his own production company InBloomFilms. His work includes various television, film and documentary projects and has produced short films that have been in numerous film festivals both in Australia and Overseas. Currently he is completing work on a documentary on the Pacific Highway and then shooting an adventure/travel doco in May set in Hokkaido, Japan.


...Kylie Trounson

Kylie is a playwright, actor and teacher of drama and playwrighting. She trained in acting at The Method Studio, London and the National Theatre Drama School, Melbourne and studied playwriting with Bernard Kops (London), Jenny Kemp and Jane Bodie. She has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne and is currently completing a Masters of Playwrighting at QUT.
Kylie has performed in numerous theatre, television and film productions including Noise (feature films), Syllable to Sound (ABC), A Black Cat Kind of Day (Best Actor, Short and Sweet Play Festival) and the film series Exit. Kylie wrote and performed in theatre productions of The Hyacinth Project (La Mama), Uninvited Guests (2004 Melbourne Fringe Award Winner) and HOTEL (2005 Melbourne Fringe Award Winner). She is currently writing The Man with the September Face to be developed by Full Tilt at The Arts Centre, Melbourne.


...Jennifer DiZio

Jennifer began as an assistant for Woods Entertainment in California, working on such productions as Beautiful Girls with Miramax. She returned to the East Coast and Yale University and then University of Delaware as a Dean's Scholar Major focusing on African American literature and playwriting, graduating Cum Laude and with special recognition for her thesis on Toni Morrison and Ntozake Shange. She worked with the nationally recognized PTTP graduate theatre program, and acted as script advisor for several productions. She also worked as Development Supervisor for Zoië Films, which financed, produced and exhibited short films for Internet release. While there she co-produced the short films Rhawn Street and Lovers.
Jen moved to the UK in 2004 and obtained her MA in Script Development and Production from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she helped produce and write both Measured and Trials of Radcliff Hall for exhibition in 2004 & 2005 with LLyod Trott and Sue Dunderdale. While attending RADA, Jen was recruited to work in Development and Acquisitions for Turner Broadcasting in London, where she helped to launch the company's first major network in Italy. In 2005 she headed the Distribution team for the company's first ever American cable channel in Germany. Jen currently works for Left Turn Films under producer Lene Bausager and Oscar© nominated director Sean Ellis.


...Guy & Pete Richards

The recently formed creative team behind peephole productions are our animation, digital effects and visual story telling consultants.
Pete has worked as a designer for the past 5 years, working with high-end post houses Animal Logic and Zspace. Pete has studied the language of design, he has a Fine Arts degree and Masters in special effects from AFTRS. He also is also extremely proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.
Guy has 12 years of editing and directing experience. he has edited the recent feature film -Global Haywire- and directed numerous commercials. He has a high level of competency in Avid, Livetype, Motion, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro.
Guy's Strengths are in directing and editing with a focus on visiual storytelling whilst Pete comes from a fine arts and visiual effects background and is interested in alternative ways of telling stories.


...Adam Dolman

Adam worked at Arenafilm and Footprint Films in Sydney, with producer/distributor John Maynard, and producer/director Robert Connolly, where he was closely involved in the Australian theatrical release of both THE MONKEY’S MASK and THE BANK. He has worked as the Line Producer on the low budget feature THE MERCHANT OF FAIRNESS, Production Coordinator on KING OF THE MOUNTAIN and Production Secretary on both THE BANK and QUEEN OF THE DAMNED.
Adam graduated with a Masters of Producing, Film and Television from AFTRS (The Australian Film, Television & radio School) and then worked as Development Manager at RGM Films and Mullis Capital Independent and was the Financing Consultant on LITTLE FISH. Adam has produced and production managed a number of commercials, directed a number of short films and a commercial for OPERA IN THE DOMAIN. He was the recipient of the 2005 Kenneth Myer Fellowship, and wrote a paper on overseas financing avenues for Australian feature films in 2005/2006.
Adam is actively developing several feature films with Monsoon Pictures International, including DOG with Mark Lamprell directing and TIGER, TIGER with Dale Duguid directing. Adam is an experienced producer and production manager who knows the ins and outs of budgets and funding applications as well as feasibility and script development.


...Daisy Allsop

Whilst studying Philosophy at Cambridge University Daisy was heavily involved in student drama and the inception of a brand new theatre and on her university holidays she worked in television documentaries and on Channel 4 news; as a Producer’s Assistant on two features; and as a freelance script reader for Intermedia, Alliance Atlantis and Working Title 2. Upon graduating she spent a year as Acquisitions Assistant at Downtown Pictures, an independent UK distributor. In early 2001 she joined Capitol Films, a leading sales, production and financing company where she spent three years learning the international business as Development, Acquisitions & Marketing executive. She was heavily involved in the acquisition and development of her favourite project ‘Five Children & It’ and moved across to work for producer Nick Hirschkorn on the production. She now remains at Feel Films as Head of Development, managing their slate of projects and working closely with Nick to see them through to production. Feel Films are one of the UK Film Council ‘Superslate’ companies with Capitol Films, and are developing a number of literary, historical and family feature projects.
Daisy is a founder of Stellar Network UK, a membership organisation that connects professionals in film, television and theatre. For Stellar she developed relationships with Bafta, the Film Council, BFI and key UK organisations and distributors. A represented writer, Daisy has a feature script doing the rounds. She also has a regular slot as a ‘film pundit’ on the radio station Classic Gold reviewing new releases and reporting from film festivals. She has served on a number of panels and short film jury’s, given script development workshops for the BFI and will be on the jury of the upcoming Rushes Soho Shorts Festival.


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