Alicia began working in film after training and working in sound engineering and broadcast engineering at Channel Four UK. Her editorial experience ranges from Feature Films and Television to Commercial work and Music Videos. She’s collaborated on substantial projects as an Editor, VFX Editor, Assistant Editor and Post-Production supervisor.
Alicia is interested in the opportunities that exist in the creative, technical and logistical areas of filmmaking and is extremely proficient at devising and delivering complex workflows and adapting new and established technologies to suit any project.
Her Editorial credits include The Thin Red Line, Holy Smoke, Farscape, Anacondas, Paranoia, Blood Diamond, Knowing and the Academy Award-winning Happy Feet. After many successful years on live action projects, she gravitated toward Animation and was editor of the Emmy award winning series Animalia, and Associate Editor on Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. She has also spent time working with emerging practitioners as an Editing Mentor for Screen Australia’s development workshops and teaches at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney.
Alicia is a professional member of the Australian Screen Editors Guild, and a credentialled member of the Australian Cinema Pioneers.

Helen Newman, creator of Nomad Films, is a multi-award winning Australian filmmaker and video artist whose work over the last 20 years has taken her around the globe gathering stories from the inspiring to the heartbreaking.

FILMMAKER: As both producer and director on film projects from short form to feature length documentaries Helen has a broad knowledge of both the creative and practical qualities needed to bring a film project to life.

Helen’s documentaries have screened on ABC TV, ABC iView, NITV and at a range of national and international film festivals.

VIDEO ARTIST: Helen has collaborated with a variety of performance, visual, animation and sound artists to create a varied collection of multi-platform, site specific and performance-based works.

Her projection works have played at festivals and exhibitions in Albury, Wodonga, Wagga, Chiltern, Beechworth and Bago state forest. Her 360 immersive work, Pygmy 360, was short-listed for Vivid, Sydney, 2020.

PROJECT MANAGER: Helen also has experience as project manager for arts based projects and was Creative Director for the hugely successful Limelight: Art, Science, Light event in 2022.

Parallel Wilds: an immersive and empowering 3D platform for youth, featuring creative writing, digital photography and videography, cosplay and modelling, 3D and drone imagery,

and sound composition. This innovative convergence of artforms allows youth to express self-identity in the natural world, to create a speculative universe on the future of wilderness,

set in the year 2050. For more information contact Craig Dent via email: craig@craigdent.com.au

Studio GLDN is a creative consultancy that works across a spectrum of clients in visual arts, design, retail and hospitality.

Generating an authentic dialogue between our clients and the culture that surrounds them, we take a strategic and integrated approach to shaping and communicating the unique, creative visions of the people and brands we work with.

Based in Beechworth, Australia, we work closely with clients – big and small, cultural and commercial, established and starting – to translate their ideas into authentic visuals that are both engaging and memorable. We believe in the power of design as a strategic tool to develop and evolve businesses and work closely with you to define and realise your goals.

Our work takes many forms of delivery: from design to content strategy and rollout, art direction, photography, motion, brand development, identity and storytelling.

Rich in intent, we create with purpose.

Local client list: Billson's Brewery, Brown Brothers, Beechworth Honey, Milawa Cheese, Lake Moodemere, Beechworth Books, Walter Hair Salon, Murray Arts.