Tasya, known within the collective as Bicu, works across research and translation and has supported documentary projects and screening initiatives. A native of Makassar, she is currently based in Naarm, where she is completing her Master’s in Cultural and Creative Industries at Monash while cultivating a practice that centers on promoting Indonesian cinema culture and developing reciprocal, cross-cultural modes of seeing and making — a focus that extends to her role as a co-founder of Sipakatuo, an Indonesian-Australian film exchange and residency initiated alongside fellow Dogmilk members.
Alex is a Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) based documentary filmmaker whose work explores the intricacies of human experience with a cinematic sensibility rooted in empathy and curiosity. With a versatile skill set as a Director, DOP, and editor, she has worked extensively across a wide range of visual mediums.
A graduate of the European Film College in Denmark and the Master of Documentary Film and Television program at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Alex's award winning short films have screened at festivals and arts institutions locally and internationally. She has also worked as a cinematographer in Australia’s creative arts and dance industries.
Currently, Alex is developing her debut feature film ‘Pom Pom People’, among other creative projects.
Chris is a filmmaker from Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) who works as a Director, Producer, Writer and Editor across documentary, narrative and experimental film projects. Having lived and worked between Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), Mparntwe (Alice Springs, Australia) and Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia), his work is grounded in collaborative modes of filmmaking, and dedicated to the development of independent filmmaking practices in Australia and South-East Asia.
Chris co-founded film collective Dogmilk in 2017, and co-founded cross-cultural exchange and residency organisation, Sipakatuo, in 2020. His work has been exhibited at International and Australian film festivals and arts institutions.
Fraser is a Naarm-based filmmaker dedicated to crafting distinctly Australian narratives that resonate with universal human experiences. His work delves into the hidden corners of the psyche, exploring themes of time, memory, and loss with a deeply introspective lens.
Since 2015, Fraser’s films—Butterfly, Hourglass, Solitude, Their Eyes, All We Have is Time and Faceless—have captivated audiences, earning accolades at both Australian and international film festivals. His storytelling is marked by a poetic sensitivity, blending visual lyricism with emotional depth to uncover the complexities of the human condition.
Currently, Fraser is developing his debut feature film, Mirage, amongst other projects.
John Hewison is Naarm/Melbourne based filmmaker, video artist and film programmer. Working across varying genres and modes, John has written and directed multiple narrative short films (Parts and Labour, Transmissions and Mystic Park), DOP’d two feature films (A River in the Middle of the Sky and upcoming Aluk).
With the Dogmilk FIlms collective his main preoccupation is film programming and directing the long running fortnightly Degustations film screenings. John also makes 16mm based experimental moving image film, performing these Expanded Cinema works in collaboration with a variety of sound and video artists.
Josh Peters is an artist, composer and sound designer based in Naarm (Melbourne). His practice examines the underlying mechanisms of listening through multichannel sound installation and performance.
Josh has exhibited and performed his work both nationally and internationally in spaces such as Bus Projects, McClelland SculpturePark + Gallery, Montsalvat, Testing Grounds and Space Zero Gallery in Seoul.
As a sound designer, he has worked on a range of projects including short films Cuckoo Roller andEach Other, upcoming feature documentary Aluk, and video work The Soldier’s Dream shown at Buxton Contemporary.
Lola Hewison is a Melbourne-based photography and video artist. Currently at the Victorian College of the Arts, she studies Fine Art Photography, through which she explores the potentials of film as a medium, utilising both the physical form and conceptual capacities of both film and photography.
Having worked as set photographer, she has also done video work for Melbourne-based musical duo The Green Child
Lola is interested in the space that both still and moving image inhabit in the present and evolving world of art and cinema.
Paddy's filmmaking has so far straddled forms of fiction, documentary, and experimental sound + image making. His projects have consistently reflected a DIY sensibility – perhaps influenced by his upbringing and the artistic communities that reared him.
He is an advocate of shooting on FILM. Through both Dogmilk and Artist Film Workshop (AFW) collectives, Paddy is regularly and actively involved in presenting films, sharing film knowledge, and instructing workshops – primarily for people interested in working with 16mm and Super 8 film. His immersion within these communities inspires him to pursue filmmaking as a collaborative process.
Paddy’s films have been presented in curated programs at major international film festivals and film institutions, some of which include: The Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Austrian Film Museum, San Francisco Cinematheque, and Melbourne International Film Festival. He has also shown work at a raft of artist-run film labs, micro-cinemas, universities and independent cinemas throughout Europe, Asia and North & South America.
Rose Baird is a Melbourne-based costume designer. After receiving her Diploma in Costume For Performance; she begun working across the board of set, wardrobe, makeup and costume. Specialising in design and art finishings.
Her enthusiasm, skill & experience shine through in her work, reminding us that costume is an integral part in the creation of a character. Her knowledge around the concepts of identity asks the audience to consider what we understand from someone by their image.
Rose aids and emphasises the mis-en-scene of a film and has a talent for bringing characters to life. Her designs can be found throughout the Dogmilk projects.
Sam Hewison is a French-Australian producer and assistant director, currently based in New York. A co-founder of Dogmilk as well as Indonesian-Australian film exchange collaborative Sipakatuo, a graduate from L’Ecole documentaire de Lussas and has been working with filmmakers in Indonesia for several years. After working as development executive at Paris-based production company Wheelhouse Productions, he is currently associate producer at Correspondent Productions in New York, and Workshops Producer at UnionDocs in Ridgewood. Sam has produced several Dogmilk projects A River in the Middle of the Sky (2023) by Chris C.F. and Wahyu Al Mardhani, Above Water (2022) by Alex Walton and Mystic Park by John Hewison (2025).
Sofie McClure is a video artist, working in performance and installation. She is interested in film not merely as a visual medium, but as multi-sensory practice, addressing bodily memory and sense experience that exceeds cognitive or visual capacities. Her current work is engaged with adapting the physicality of the camera, opening new methods for haptic-led approaches to filmmaking, where the camera is not guided by visual direction but by material interaction. Her practice is multi-disciplinary, collaborating with dancers, sound artists and sculptors. Sofie’s work has been exhibited and screened at festivals and galleries including, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Now or Never Festival, St Kilda Festival, ACCA, Quality, Milk Gallery, 138 gallery, GalleryGallery Inc, Rumata Artspace (Indonesia), and Spazio 500 (Italy).
Wahyu is a highly imaginative filmmaker from Palopo (Sulawesi, Indonesia), with a depth of experience making films in a variety of roles; as a Director, Cinematographer and Editor. From a deep love for the documentary form, he co-founded Makassar-based filmmaking collective 180 Dalam Kota to help develop a broader appreciation for documentary filmmaking in his community. He continues to work closely with young filmmakers in Makassar to help mentor them in their development.
A member of film collective Dogmilk Films (based between Melbourne and Makassar), Wahyu has exhibited his work across Indonesia and Australia and wants to continue building a bridge between film communities in these two countries. In 2020, Wahyu co-founded the cross-cultural and collaborative exchange project Sipakatuo, functioning between South Sulawesi and Australia. The team behind Sipaktuo are currently planning the next phases of the exchange project.
William is an emerging Warlpiri filmmaker and actor, originally hailing from Central Australian desert communities. Having grown up in Naarm (Melbourne) since the age of eight, he has deep connections both to his homeland and to the city that raised him.
While new to the field of film and television, he’s committed to developing his skills as an Actor, Writer and Director. Having completed his first short film ‘Faceless’, he is currently writing several films both short and feature-length, and exploring creative relationships with other writers and directors.
