Our team, lead by Creative Director Michelle Bova, is a team of passionate and creative men and women dedicated to helping families celebrate life through video.
Michelle Bova
Creative Director/Videographer
Drawn to the storytelling aspect and the experience of getting a behind the
scenes perspective of both artwork and events, Michelle started studying
videography and gaining practical experience in 2005.
Video has definitely been an interest since childhood, and one thing that
continues to drive her love is the preservation of precious memories and
moments in time.
Michelle created Family Videography in 2010 as a way to give families access
to videographers to assist them with recording, managing and creating family
videos to keep and pass on to future generations. She finds working with
families on tribute videos particularly rewarding.
Her dream for the future of Family Videography is to keep growing, build an
amazing team of talented videographers, and have families think more about
creating their own family time capsules.
Mark Santos
Videographer/Editor
Mark was fascinated by video from a young age, fascinated by motion pictures
and curious to discover how such beautiful works were created.
First using video for school projects, Mark cites one of his earliest
memories of videography as a short film recorded on a handy cam and edited
entirely using two video cameras connected to a television!
Mark began his professional career in 2006 as a freelance video
editor/camera operator around his province in the Philippines, working
primarily on documentaries, political advertisements and school projects.
When asked what event, past, present or future, he would most like to record
Mark answered;
Past - Film and event with my mother (who passed away when I was 5 years
old)
Present - My everyday life is memorable with my wife and my baby, so I would
film the present event with them.
Future - My whole family will always be special to me. So filming an event with
the entire family would be nice.
Evan Zell
Videographer/Editor
Evan started shooting in 2007 on a Sony HC7, his first ever paid job was a
wedding in Mudgee.
The ability to create beautiful work is what first drew him to the
production industry.
When asked what event, past, present or future, he would most like to record
Evan answered;
I would have shot the maiden departure of the titanic as i would have
been a once in a lifetime experience.
Mathis Eskjaer
Videographer/Editor
At the age of 13 Mathis shot a low budget reinactment of Columbus landing in
America for a school project with a small DVD camera and at 15 made a Tarantino
rip-off actionfilm with the guys. Seven years later in 2009 he started his own
production company. Since then Mathis has produced television ads, short films
and even an award-winning documentary.
He is facinated by fiction because of the challenge that comes with creating
a plausable illussion that the viewers give in to, not realizing they are
watching film, but meerely wathing reality on the screen. Documentary is all
about capturing the moment and interpretating the real world around us through
the lense. You have to stay alert and shoot first - whether it’s weddings or
war zones.
When asked what event, past, present or future, he would most like to record
Mathis answered;
"If I could go back in time, I would love to document the fall of the
Berlin wall. History in the making with a symbolic and visual action that
forever changed and the lives of everyone present and even the world order.”
Cat Di Girolamo
Photographer
Caterina DiGirolamo discovered her passion for photography when she
first visited Sicily and was shown this ancient culture and landscape
through the eyes of her grandfather a born and bred native of that land.
Aged fifteen she picked up her first camera and saw the world
through different eyes. Excited by her ability to capture spontaneous
human emotions, pride, strength and spirit she used her camera to get
involved in people’s lives and to tell a powerful story through photos.
Hayley Thorncraft
Administration
A photography student with a creative soul and a degree in
Advertising and Marketing makes Hayley Thorncraft the perfect new
addition to the Family Videography team. A relative jack of all trades,
Hayley looks after the administration, web content management, and
marketing for the business.
When asked what event, past, present or future, he would most like to photograph Hayley answered;
I would love to have photographed my grandparents on the day they met.
They have this beautiful, meeting story that is purely based in chance
(and determination on my grandfather part!). I’ve never known two people
to have as solid, loving and loyal relationship as them. It would also
just be amazing to see them at my age; I hear my grandmother was a bit
of a firecracker!
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