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Key Creatives

"When we first began this journey together, we couldn't have imagined all the twists and turns that would bring us to this moment. Through the challenges of the 2019 bushfires, the 2020 Brisbane floods, and a global pandemic, PTSD Love Stories carries not just the stories of our participants but also the fingerprints of everyone who contributed their time, expertise, and heart along the way. From concept to completion, our production spanned 10 years, 39 shoot days, and 5 cities and towns (yes, almost 10TB of footage!). Together, we built story awareness and audience engagement that led to a Screen Queensland grant and a national broadcast acquisition with ABC Compass." 

Arun Ketsirat - Producer/ Director

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Meet the Team

Arun Ketsirat

Director | Producer | Cinematographer | Editor | Impact Producer

Arun Ketsirat is a Thai-Australian filmmaker, educator, and founding director of Seeding Time Pictures. Her work has received support from Screen Australia, Screen Queensland, and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, including Bigger than Boobs (APSA Short Film Fund, 2018), PTSD Love Stories (SQ Completion Fund, 2020; ABC Compass, 2021; SA Producer Equity Program, 2023), Epilogue (SQ R.I.D.E. Shorts, BIFF Premiere, 2022), and Why Is It So Hard to Talk to My Mother? (SQ Development Fund, 2025). Arun worked in the Assistant Directing team on Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives (Amazon Prime, 2022) and has lectured in film at Griffith Film School since 2013. 

Kym Melzer

Producer | Writer

Kym Melzer is a producer and writer whose commitment to equity is grounded in her Māori heritage, as a proud descendant of Heeni Te Kirikaramu (Jane Foley). She produced PTSD Love Stories (2025) and the award-nominated The Ripple Effect of PTSD, underpinned by her PhD in documentary ethics. Her credits include Netflix productions Spiderhead, True Spirit, and Ticket to Paradise, alongside work with Screen Australia, Universal Pictures, and Legendary Entertainment. With a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and an AFTRS certificate in Production Accounting, Kym now blends creative insight with strategic support in production accounting while championing inclusive storytelling.

Judy Yeh

Editor

Judy is a film editor and post-production specialist with over 10 years of successful projects demonstrated in the arts, documentary, television, film and media industry. Her cultural background has, not only made her highly adaptable, but have also enriched her creative language and experiences, which she expresses through her craft. Judy’s works include: Flyways: The Story of Migratory Shorebirds (2023, Arte, HHMI, ABC and PTS); Lili (2019, Sydney International Film Festival Premiere and Best documentary for the Hungarian Film Critics Award); Lost Contact (2022, Flickerfest Official Selection and Best documentary at St Kilda Film Festival); Good Times and That’s Okay (2022, Melbourne Queer Film Festival Best Short Film).

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Sara Goddard

Editor

Sara is an emerging filmmaker who began working at Seeding Time Pictures as a transcriber and throughout her three years with the company has worked as editor on various social media campaigns, such as The Making of Soulbeats (2020), an 8 x 3 min behind the scene series. PTSD Love Stories is her debut feature film work. In 2021, Sara was the Media Manager of the first season of Below Deck Down Under, the latest spin-off of the hit US reality show Below Deck. Although her main love is editing, Sara enjoys working in different areas of production; she was a videographer on the behind-the-scenes of Soulbeats (2020) and worked as a researcher as part of an internship with Wall to Wall Media. Sara’s goal is to one day work on feature films and create projects that explore her Australian/Guyanese heritage.

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Michael Vasiliev

Re-Recording Mixer | Dialogue Editor

Michael is a Brisbane based freelance sound editor and re-recording mixer for film and TV.  He has been working with Seeding Time Pictures since 2013 and is a key collaborator for their sound post production team.  Over the years he has contributed to many of their titles, and in his spare time he can often be found sailing the sound waves of the frequen sea, in his pursuit of discovering the ultimate sound of diamond tier fidelity. Michael takes exceptional pride in his craft and has only one philosophy: If the bass ain't boomin', I'mma be fumin'.

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Sarah Ward

Sound Designer | Composer

Sarah is a sound designer and sound editor and composer for Film/TV and Games. Growing up on an island in Moreton Bay, Sarah spent much of her childhood using her imagination, thus igniting her creative spark which she has carried on in her sound and music work. She has worked on many projects with Seeding Time Pictures since 2018 - most recently PTSD Love Stories, which aired on ABC’s Compass in May 2021. She has also worked with SuperTonic on the survival adventure game Windbound (Xbox, Playstation, PC, Nintendo Switch, Stadia), developed by 5 Lives Studios and published by Deep Silver. Most recently, Sarah has contributed sound design to The Great and Grand Rumpus currently exhibiting at the State Library of Queensland.

Key Contributors

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Aprille Asfoura

Impact Producer

Aprille Asfoura is a Palestinian-Australian mother with a background in the arts and screen industries across Australia and overseas. She studied documentary production at AFTRS after collaborating in New York with acclaimed filmmakers on award-winning projects (Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson; Life, Animated by Julie Goldman). Her diverse experience spans story development, directing, creative writing and project management across festivals, scripted shorts, VR and documentaries. She worked for two years with Screen Australia supporting the Gender Matters Task Force led by Fiona Cameron. Aprille is passionate about developing her own documentary practice, using storytelling as a tool for political change and advocacy for human rights and social justice.

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Natasha Akib 

Impact Producer

Natasha Akib is an impact storyteller with over a decade of experience in filmmaking, impact producing, capacity building and campaigning within the for-purpose sector. She is the co-creator and Director of Digital Storytellers – a B-Corp and social enterprise founded in 2013 to create a better future through the power of story. Natasha leads workshops and capacity building programs aimed at democratising media and has delivered storytelling initiatives with UNDP Somalia, the World Health Organisation, Facebook and other social impact organisations. In 2023, she was selected for the inaugural Documentary Australia Impact Producer Fellowship and is currently impact producing Trailblazers, a Stan Original Documentary about the Matildas' fight for equal pay. 

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Francis Thompson 

Camera Operator

Francis Thompson is a Brisbane based cinematographer. Having graduated from Griffith Film School in 2013 with multiple awards for best cinematography he went on to work across a diverse range of productions including short film, music video, big budget feature films, corporate and documentary. Extensive work as a camera assistant has allowed him to broaden his experience and skill set as a cinematographer as well as making him comfortable working in any variety of crew size, budget or location. His passion lies in documentary storytelling where he enjoys bringing to life human stories with cinematic flare.

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Daniel Warner

Lead Animator | Motion Graphic Designer

Daniel is a details driven video editor with a structured approach to all aspects of post production. He developed his creative editing skills working in Sydney’s fast paced agency environment  before taking on Canada then London as an online producer, editor and writer creating short documentaries, TVCs and other content. He now runs a freelance editing business Hello Editing from Brisbane focusing on remotely servicing clients around Australia and the world. Daniel also has the Australian feature film Rise (Vision Pictures 2014) under his belt as well as many trailers and short films and was Post Supervisor on a SQ Shorts Screen Queensland funded comedy pilot in 2018.

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Mica Purnell

Animation Designer

After spending three years designing branding and promotional materials for businesses large and small, Mica has now focussed her design skills on the Film and TV. She creates on set graphics and marketing collateral for feature films, documentaries and shorts, and focuses on progressive and meaningful causes wherever she can. Her work appeared on Love and Monsters (2020) Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) and Inertia (2018). During COVID lockdowns in 2020, she started an Instagram Illustration account, @mimimoo_illustration. It has now over 158,000 followers. This has florished into a  Youtube Channel, @MimimooIllustration  with over 111,000 followers.

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Seth Lebrese

Camera Operator

Based in Brisbane, Seth is a freelance Director of Photography and Videographer with nearly a decade of experience working across Australia and abroad. He specialises in servicing video production companies and creative agencies to execute the visual needs of their projects. As a ReOC-licensed FPV and heavy-lift drone operator, and an experienced gimbal/camera operator, he brings a versatile, technical skillset to every production.

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Impact Coordinators

KATE MACONACHIE

BRYCE HARA-CROCKFORD

BIANCA EVANS

LINA BOLIVA MAZO

DANIELA MONTOYA LOPEZ

Media Outreach Coordinator

JAC DYSON

Lawyer

BROOKE SCHUBAUER

Short Film Story Consultant

HEIDI REINBERG

Camera Operator

BRIAN LOEWE

Sound Recordists

CAM BRENNAN

LUKE HYLAND

DEAN LAW

Animators

MAY RINGDAHL

LACHLAN MACFARLANE

Motion Graphic Designers

(Photo Parralax)

TIM BAHRIJ

YOEL HILL

JAKOB KEANE

LACHLAN MACFARLANE

Assistant Cameras

CAM BRENNAN 

LUKE HYLAND

CALLUM MERRITT

SARA GODDARD

Assistant Sound Designer

JOSEPH MORRISON

Post-Production Assistants

CAM BRENNAN

SOPHIE DAULBY

CARLOS FELIPE

SETH LEBRESE

VORAKORN RUETAIVANICHKUL

ROHAN MEWES

AMELIA FISHPOOL

LISA MAE BINTI HASNUL

Assistant Producer 

BENJAMIN STANIC

Hair & Makeup Artist

ALLY ATKINSON

Props

SAMMI SAMPSON

Props Assistant

ANGELIQUE KENKINS

Additional Music (Audio)

"Nothing Comes Close"

THE MAJOR TOMS

"Crossing"

JESSE KEES

"Everything We Hoped For"

MRSHALL USINGER

"First Dance"

J SCOTT RAKOZY

"No Place Like Home

Writer

JARED MARC

Performer

CLARE COWLEY

Producer

ADRIAN DIERY

Story Teaser Editors

SARA GODDARD

CARLOS FELIPE

SETH LEBRESE

LACHLAN MACFARLANE

Story Teaser Colourist

CARLOS FELIPE

BTS Sound Designer & Mixer

JOSEPH MORRISON

MIACHEL VASILIEV

Impact Officers

ANGELA HUANG 

TAMAS SANDOR

BIBAH MOHAMED

Social Media Coordinators

TAMAS SANDOW

ANGELA HUANG

Campaign Video Editors

ARCHER JOHNSTONE

LIAM JANOVSKY

Facebook Live Assistants

ALEX EASTMAN-SMITH

ORSON LORD

JAMES MARCHALL

JAMIE FINDLEY

Marketing Assistants 

ISABELLA HAACK

BENJAMIN STANIC

AINSLEE HUNTER

HENRIETTE VILOEN

ERIN HUBER

SOPHIE BLACKSHAW

ZANTHIA TILLMANS

KIRA ODGER

Special Thanks

Film Participants

Brisbane

CATHY & RALPH SADLER

SAM & ZOE SADLER

Bungendore

KATIE & DAVID TONACIA

PETE, JAMES &

SARAH TONACIA

Gympie

PAM & JOHN CORBET

Maleny

KIM HERRINGE &

NICHOLAS HODGE 

Queanbeyan

FENJI STRADWICK

Stand Tall 4 PTS Conference

TONY DELL

STEWART CAMERON

DARYL & ALAN GREEN

BRISBANE CONVENTION-

CENTRE

Gympie Fire Station

JOHN VON NIDA

ANTHONY BREWRIN

JASON MADGE

Peace of Green Gallery

Maleny

DONNA REGGETT

JENNY JOHNSON

BARBARA PULLIN

CAROL HERRINGE

Queensland Cruising

Yacht Club

JACK MORRISON

Camping Scene

BEN COOPER 

RICK COOPER

SHARON COOPER

BRAND HICKMAN

BRAD FITZGERALD

Horse Wisdom For Life

SIOBHAN HAMSON

Calvary Bruce Private

Hospital

MICHELE GARNER

Our Families

MARCUS BARBER

SYLVIA KETSIRAT BARBER

LEONIE KETSIRAT BARBER

JOSEPH A. GARTNER

RATTANAWAN VENTKER

ORAWAN 'LISA' KETISRAT

LEONIE BARBER

BRUCE BARBER

MERRYL POWELL

GATH POWELL

MAYTINEE 'MAY'-

KITTISITTHO

ROB MELZER

JED MELZER

JOSEPH MELZER

SQhub

CAITLIN BOUCHER

Seeding Time Pictures

JOSEPH J.U.TAYLOR

JAVIER GUEVARA

ONGART WISESCHOTIKUL

Nusa Film

DEWA 'DODE' PALGUNA

Griffith Film School

DEBRA BEATTIE 

HERMAN VAN EYKEN

BRETT WILTSHIRE

JAMES STAFFORD

ALEX WALLER

CURTIS SULLIVAN

ASHLEIGH SMITH-GOLDING

ERIK MALAN

LiveLab

RICHARD FABB

Creative Consultants

VERONICA FURY 

PETER HEGEDUS

MANDY LAKE

Audience Testing Program Participants

LINDA CURRY

MERIELEE REY

ASHLIEGH WATSON

TANYA MODINI

NATALIE JAMES

BELINDA ADAMS

BOBBI-LEA DIONYSIUS

Community Premiere Assistants

MEGS BRAZENDALE

EMMA GRIFFITHS

ALEX TYSON

GEORGIE WELLS

DANNY STATON

COURTNEY WILKIE

TRISH WILSON

TORY DAX

KIRSTEN RIDER

SHARNI KANE

ADRIAN DIERY

ADDISON KNIGHT

ALEX CRAIG

COOPER DE ROSS

ELYSSA RICHARDSON

JACK GAMBLE

JOSIE LEE

LUCA JORDAN VIEIRA

MADISON DIXON

OLIVIA GARCIA

POPP SMITH

TAO METCALFE

Crowdfunding Campaign

Perk Sponsors

INDONESIA ROYAL TULIP-

GUNUNG GEULIS

RESORT AND GOLF

ILUKA GREENWOOD HOUSE-

ACCOMMODATION

MORAL PLUMBING

POWDER FINGER

BERNARD FANNING

RIO RHYTHMICS 

EXPLORE TOURS PERTH

SIMPLE STYLING SOLUTIONS

FLOAT HQ BRISBANE 

HOME & AWAY SUMMER

BAY TOUR

TAONGA ZOO SYDNEY

KOALA RIVER CRUISE

BRISBANE

JET BOARD SNORKELLING

TREE OF LIFE

SKY SURFBOARD

EMTE CLOTHING SHOP

DREAM ON BEAUTY 

WHISKEY'S WISH

HEARTS & MINDS WELLNESS

OURANO YOGA & LIFESTYLE

THE WHEEL OF BRISBANE

AUSTRALIA ZOO

ANNIE LANE

HIERBA SANTA ORGANIC 

AUSTRALIAN WARFIGHTERS

COFFEE

PATRICIA LEAVY

JENNY WYNTER

CONNIE BOGLIS

Donors

ABI BRYNE

AINSLEE HUNTER

ALLISON KING

BEN JOHNSON

BENJAMIN STANIC

BETH HEATH

BOBBI-LEA DIONYSIUIS

CASS OHL

CATHERINE SADLER

CHAD SEVERN

DIANNE MCGILL

DONNA REGGETT

GEORGE MULHEARN

GEORGIA MERCER 

GLENDA DAWN WARD

GREG BLAKEY

HENRIETTE VILJOEN

ISABELLA HAACK

JACQUIE RIDLEY

JEAN OHL

JUDY YEH

KATE 'DRINAN' BENNIE

KATE WHITE

KIRSTY

CORMACK

LISA KETSIRAT GARTNER

LISETTE LEADBETTER

MANDI MOO

MARTIN CALDERON

PENNY MITCHELL

RACH RIDLEY

RATTANWAN O VENTKER

ROB MELZER

SARAH NEWCOMB

SHARON BYARD

TAHNEE GARDINER-COOKE

TINA SMITH

TNKAUTOTRADER TANAKRIT

WENDY VASILIEV 

YVONNE BALLANTYNE-

KOHUNUI

Community Supporter

READING CINEMAS NEWMARKET

Sponsors

GRIFFITH FILM SCHOOL LIVELAB

CARERS QUEENSLAND

CARERS NEW SOUTH WALES

CARERS NORTHERN TERRITORY

CARERS TASMANIA

Impact Partners

ARAFMI

FORTEM AUSTRALIA

PICKING UP THE PEACES

Financed with the assistance of 

DOCUMENTARY AUSTRALIA

Produced with investment from 

KYM MELZER PRODUCTIONS

SEEDING TIME PICTURES

SCREEN QUEENSLAND

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PTSD LOVE STORIES 

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