Harold Monfils
Monfils is an award-winning Film and Advertising Director, Producer and DOP.
A true global citizen, he was born in Portugal, raised in Mexico, did film school in London, and now lives in New Zealand. Harold has spent 30 years working and living in more than 20 countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Asia, including India, where he curated the annual IndiEarth XChange festival in Chennai.
Harold directed the multi-award-winning feature-length documentary Laya Project, a visual and musical journey of healing through the countries affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami-affected.
He also wrote, directed, produced and shot the internationally acclaimed film A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey, the story of the extraordinary adventures of British conflict photographer, Jason P. Howe, and the public’s right to know.
Harold is currently in production on a film in Australia.
Rod Vallis
Rod is an award-winning Australian copywriter with three decades’ experience writing and directing, comedic, character-driven television campaigns for some of Australia’s most high-profile brands.
He’s also held national, regional and global creative director roles on some of the world’s biggest brands, including four years as the Asia Pacific creative director at Ogilvy, on IBM. And three years living in India as the worldwide creative director on Lenovo and IBM Smart Business. He helped to grow the Ogilvy India Worldwide office from 33 people to 150, delivering global creative campaigns to over 60 countries in more than 20 languages.
Denzel Washington liked one of Rod’s television commercial scripts so much he appeared in it for free.
Rod is currently in pre-production on his feature-length screenplay Cowboys and Indians: One Cowboy and a Billion Indians.