The Plastic Ocean exposes the shocking reality of sea pollution

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: THE DAILY EDITION

Sea Shepherd coordinator Liza Dicks joins Ryan and Sarah on The Daily Edition to discuss the dire state of our coastal environment.

In this adventure documentary, 'A Plastic Ocean', Craig Leeson teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.

For session times go to demand.film

MovieReading app brings cinema experience to the blind

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN

An Australian-first smartphone app will allow visually impaired people to fully experience movies at the cinema, in a new trial designed to make films more accessible.An Australian-first smartphone app will allow visually impaired people to fully experience movies at the cinema, in a new trial designed to make films more accessible.

“The technology behind the app ‘listens’ to the regular audio of the film and synchronises with it and then adds the enhanced audio elements on top of the regular soundtrack,” Demand.film chief executive David Doepel says.

Demand.film, a Perth-based firm with offices in Wellington, London and Los Angeles, lets any person or organisation “host” a film listed on the Demand.film site and create an event around it.

One in three Aussies primed for Easter, Anzac Day sickie snatch

CLIENT: WORKFAST
OUTLET: NEWS.COM.AU

WORKPLACES are gearing up for a flood of sickies on Monday, April 24, fearing the Anzac Day public holiday on Tuesday, coming so close to the Easter break, will see employees treat themselves to a second four-day long weekend.

Tim Nieuwenhuis, CEO of on-demand labour-hire app Workfast, said businesses are already ‘sickie-proofing’, placing temps on standby to fill in for staff who are no-shows.

How recruitment startup Workfast hit $1 million in revenue within two months of launching

CLIENT: WORKFAST
OUTLET: SMART COMPANY

Sydney-founded Workfast is an online platform enabling businesses to hire workers at short notice around Australia.Two months after launching in September 2016, it topped $1 million in revenue and within the next 18 months, Workfast co-founder and chief executive Tim Nieuwenhuis is aiming to hit $30 million.

The Workfast team spent around 18 months testing, tweaking, iterating and developing the product before releasing the full version.“Even after launch, we had to pivot a little bit,” he says. Reflecting on the experience, Nieuwenhuis shares four tips for startups to grow without external funding.

The Eyes Of The World Are On Australia’s Fight For Same-Sex Marriage

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OULET: BUZZFEED

Freedom to Marry is also the title of a documentary about the fight to legislate for same-sex marriage in the US. It premiered at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney on February 22.

It features Wolfson, who for 40 years has waged a campaign for marriage reform, and lawyer Mary Bonauto, who argued the case for same-sex marriage before the US Supreme Court in 2015.

Australian Marriage Equality plans to hold screenings of the documentary in regional areas including Shepparton, Lismore, Kiama and Port Hedland.

Same-sex marriage will happen in Australia, and here’s how. The ‘yes’ campaign’s secret weapon is coming

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: NEWS.COM.AU

SAME-sex marriage will happen in Australia sooner rather than later, the architect of the successful US campaign for equality says, and he’s coming down to help.

Evan Wolfson was the founder of Freedom to Marry, a strategic hub for the national equality battle in America that ultimately won in 2015.

A documentary about the US campaign, titled The Freedom To Marry, premiered at the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney last night and will now begin a nationwide tour. “The (film) has the potential to affect real change ... and its important narrative will resonate with communities across Australia”

Australia can’t give advice on territorial matters while still in dispute with East Timor: Bracks

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: NEWS.COM.AU

AUSTRALIA can’t lecture anyone on a solution for the South China Sea until it sorts out its own long-running sea border dispute with East Timor where $40 billion in oil and gas resources is in play.

Mr Bracks’ comments come as a new documentary outlining the long running dispute between the two nations screens around Australia over the next three months.

Time to Draw the Line outlines Australia and East Timor’s long relationship from WWII to more recent allegations of spying by Australian intelligence operatives.

Australia And East Timor - Is It 'Time To Draw The Line'

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: ABC NEWS BREAKFAST

A $40 billion oil and gas deposit lies 50 kms inside the East Timor section of the median border. East Timor wants possession of a boundary and that it be drawn halfway between the two countries in accordance with international law (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). Australia has resisted both. 

Steve Bracks appears on ABC Breakfast News to raise awareness in helping Timor-Leste achieve permanent, equitable maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea with Indonesia and Australia.

Bracks also promotes his new film, which engages and motivates Australians about the need to draw a just and permanent border in the Timor Sea, following a story that will shock many Australians if they knew the facts.

Bringing Buddhism To The Western World: Lama Ole Nydahl appears on Studio 10

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: STUDIO 10

In 1968, Danish hippies Hannah and Ole Nydahl were the first Western students to study Buddhism under his Holiness the 16th Karmapa in Nepal. After a period of study, they were sent back to Europe, and for the following four decades, made it their life’s mission to spread the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism throughout the world.

Uber-like recruitment technology launched for Australian mining

CLIENT: WORKFAST
OUTLET: AUSTRALIAN MINING

Tech company Workfast has extended an Uber-like, on-demand recruitment platform it launched last year to the Australian mining industry.

The technology, which has already found success in Australia’s construction industry, will provide mining companies with access to labour hire workers at variable rates of pay, a first for the industry, according to the Sydney-based start-up.