THE TEAM
Seeding Time Pictures, are dynamic, visual storytellers creating a cross-cultural content bridge across Australasia. We celebrate diverse and authentic voices to communicate social impact factual and narrative stories to global audiences. We are based in Brisbane and Bali, and travel whenever the story takes us.
Key Creatives
Arun Ketsirat
Arun is a Thai-Australian documentary filmmaker and a founding partner of Seeding Time Pictures, a Brisbane and Bali-based production company that celebrates diverse and authentic voices to communicate stories that matter. Her social impact documentary The Boob Issue won the Asia Pacific Screen Award Brisbane Short Film Fund (2018), a place in DocEdge Kolkata pitching incubation (2019), and is currently in post-production for its feature-length version. PTSD Love Stories (2022) feature documentary won Screen Queensland Completion Fund, and its half-hour version was released on ABC Compass in 2021. She worked in the Assistant Directing team on Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives (2022) and produced Epilogue (2022), an observational documentary about life and death, which premiered at the Brisbane International Film Festival.
Director | Producer | Cinematographer | Editor
Kym Melzer
Kym produced the award winning children’s short drama film, Cool Fashion Girls (2018) and produced/directed the award nominated seven-part documentary series The Ripple Effect of PTSD (2016) and most recently created and produced the documentary, PTSD Love Stories, due for release in 2021. Kym has great interviewing techniques and creates safe spaces for interviewees to open up their hearts. Kym teaches and lectures at Griffith Film School, Brisbane. Kym was granted the Doctor of Philosophy for her thesis entitled Impact and Documentary Filmmaking: Ethical reflections on a practice based study. Kym worked on Netflix’s SPIDERHEAD film as Production Attachment supported by Screen Queensland.
Producer | Writer
Judy Yeh
Judy is an experienced film editor and post-production specialist with over 7 years of successful projects demonstrated in the arts, documentary, film and corporate video industry. Her editing journey started when she first moved to Australia as a seven year old girl. Being illiterate in both her mother tongue and the English language, she spent her days learning both languages through pictures in manga books and TV. The blend of different cultures and dynamic worlds not only made her highly adaptable, but have also enriched her creative language and experience, which she expresses through her craft. Judy recently co-edited the award winning feature documentary Lili (2019).
Editor
Bianca Evans
Bianca is deeply fascinated by what lies beneath the surface. Wielding a sympathetic heart and dark sense of humour, Bianca’s mission is to get everyone dirty, by breaking down walls that keep us all shut off from one another. By becoming deeply engaged with the vulnerability of her subjects, Bianca explores the common themes that connect us all. Having originally completed a BA Business/ Marketing, Bianca worked in a range of corporate roles before embarking on a journey that landed her in the ochre-stained remote desert of the Northern Territory. There, she discovered the magic of storytelling by accompanying indigenous elders on adventures to sacred sites, immersing herself in stories of dreamtime under the stars. Since then, she’s kept herself busy in the community services sector & brings with her extensive experience in community development and stakeholder & customer engagement.
Impact Producer
Sara Goddard
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.
Editor
Michael Vasiliev
Michael is a freelance sound editor/re-recording mixer on the post-production sound team at Seeding Time Pictures, working on the award-winning short film Cool Fashion Girls (2018), Soulbeats (2020), Dark Waters (2018 - ABC iView) and PTSD Love Stories, which aired on ABC’s Compass in May 2021. He is currently working on The Boob Issue. Michael has also worked on the feature film Outnumbered released in 2021. Michael takes exceptional pride in his craft and has had his work being described as being the 'sauce that is added to the pasta'.
Re-Recording Mixer | Dialogue Editor
Sarah Ward
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.
Sound Designer | Composer
Daniel Warner
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.
Lead Animator | Motion Graphic Designer
Mica Purnell
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.
Animation Designer
Director, Producer & Cinematographer
ARUN KETSIRAT
Producer & Writer
KYM MELZER
Editors
JUDY YEH
SARA GODDARD
ARUN KETSIRAT
Dialogue Editor & Re-recording Mixer
MICHAEL VASILIEV
Sound Designer & Composer
SARAH WARD
Camera & Drone Operators
FRANCIS THOMPSON
SETH LEBRESE
BRIAN LOEWE
Lead Animator &
Motion Graphic Designer
DANIEL WARNER
Animation Designer
MICA PURNELL
Colourist
SHAWN PANG
Special Thanks
Brisbane
CATHY & RALPH SADLER
SAM & ZOE SADLER
Bungendore
KATIE & DAVID TONACIA
PETE, JAMES & SARAH TONACIA
Gympie
PAM & JOHN CORBET
Maleny
KIM & NICHOLAS HODGE
Queanbeyan
FENJI STRADWICK
CARERS QUEENSLAND
CARERS NEW SOUTH WALES
CARERS NORTHERN TERRITORY
CARERS TASMANIA
DOCUMENTARY AUSTRALIA FOUNDATION
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN SUPPORTERS
SQhub
GRIFFITH FILM SCHOOL
LIVELAB
Produced with Investment from
SCREEN QUEENSLAND