With an abundance of energy and inquisitiveness Annie’s career has seen her undertake innumerous roles in production and marketing communications.
Her early career consisted of corporate marketing and PR roles with Brisbane Hilton, Westfield Shoppingtowns (5 years) and the highly awarded environmentally-friendly island resort, Couran Cove on South Stradbroke Island.
But her real love was the movies, being around cameras and the process of film making, starting from the age of 18 as an presenter / model and later as talent in many television commercials. During her time at Westfield the "movies came to her" when two of the Centres she marketed become the first shopping centres in Australia to have a cinema built in the foodcourts. Annie worked with Birch Carroll and Coyle and Greater Union opening one centre with "Mr Movies" Bill Collins and the second with a massive street event with the Warner Bros characters. Eventually, after a two year stint in America, she made the leap into full time film and television, starting as a production co-ordinator and working her way up to manager and then producer on television commercials, music videos and EPKs.
For a time, Annie was also in-front of the camera talking about her movie passion and presented (and segment produced) her own movie-review segment on a local show “Gold Coast Living”. In moving to Sydney, she was able to realise a long held dream of attending NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts) in 2006, where she did the year-long TV presenter’s course that fully complemented her post-graduate in TV and radio journalism.
Annie has been producing for eight years now. Since in Sydney
she has broadened her scope of work to include more long form; corporate films, event and on-line videos and branded entertainment.
A series of jobs for a branding/events company saw her produce the "life and times of Reg Grundy" (Grundy Productions) who at one time was the largest independent producer of television content in the world. Her experience of working closely with Reg Grundy and his wife Joy Chambers Grundy was one of the highlights of her career.
Recounting Reg's amazing achievements was a highly welcomed job for Annie who has an intense interest in "human potential". Another career highlight was back in 2007 when she landed the job of Logistics Manager for the national tour "Evolve Your Brain, the Science of Changing Your Mind" with Dr Joe Dispenza. Dr Joe is one of the world's leading "brain/change" experts and starred in docudrama "What the Bleep do We Know!? She also produced the "live event" DVD and CD.
Looking forward, Annie is excited about the future of the industry. "There's so much opportunity now" she says, "there's no barriers to producing quality content these days. If you're creative and have good technical skills to support you, the door is open for anyone to connect to an audience and express themselves through video."
Annie is particularly interested in the prospect of producing content that stirs deep human thoughts and emotions, as a catalyst for people to open up to the possibilities of living their potential.
On the personal side, Annie is a (double) Sagittarius so she is an idealist and eternal optimist, an extremist who knows nothing of half measures. She enjoys anything to do with film and music
and being social - and is particularly partial to staying up late
and dancing to her DJ friends playing electro and trance music.
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Qualifications:
Tertiary:
Postgraduate Certificate in Arts (Journalism- film and television)
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2001)
Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Communication (Public Relations)
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba (1998- 1999)
Associate Diploma in Business (Marketing)
Kangaroo Point College, Brisbane (1988 - 1994)
Business:
Rich Heart Wealthy Mind, Business Bootcamp (2010)
NLP Results Certification and Masters (2009)
Performance Revolution, Breakthrough to Success (2008)
The Christopher Howard Companies, Manhattan Beach CA, USA (2008)
Kerwin Rae's Marketing Masterclass (2009)
Industry:
The Presenter (Television)
National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Sydney (2006- one year course)
Annie Kinnane
