Meet the Team

Producer / Director / Editor
Matthew Buss
Matthew is a multidisciplinary producer; having spent much of his early career working in post-production, VR design, directing-independent documentary and short film. During this time, he developed the business and producing skills he aims to use to grow industry in Western Australia.
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In 2019 he co-founded good boy media with long-time collaborator Ryan Svirac, with an aim to develop their own projects. Deadpoint is his first feature film.

Director / Shooter / Editor
Ryan Svirac
Ryan is an experienced film director, cinematographer and editor based in Perth, Western Australia. Ryan has worked and travelled around the world from Iceland, America, England and Australia for different documentary series on major networks.
Alongside his business partner Matthew Buss, he is currently developing television documentary content and feature films for his company Goodboy Media.
In 2013 Ryan completed his master's degree in directing and cinematography at the West Australian Screen Academy launching his career in to film and television.

Writer
Keren Schlink
Keren Schlink is a writer and performer from Perth, Western Australia. She has been a playwright since 2009 including the award-winning absurdist comedy Ananas Comosus
(Pineapple) and the comedy puppet show Pupperotica which completed its seventh edition 7 Heavenly Sins at the 2022 Perth Fringe World festival after receiving a weekly
comedy award in 2021.
She started experimenting in screenwriting in 2014 before completing her Masters at the WA Screen Academy in 2015, penning the dark comedy short film Tryptophan starring Dacre Montgomery and the WA Screen Award nominated short documentary a Spoonful of Sugar.

Writer / Story Consultant / Script Editor
Jesse Laurie
Jesse is a screenwriter who has received national and international accolades in screenwriting contests. In 2023, his feature screenplay Deep Down reached the finals for Blue Cat, The Script Lab, Emerging Screenwriters, Creative Screenwriting, and Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.
Jesse’s short screenplay Raising Thunder was shortlisted for the AWG Monte Miller Awards in 2020 before being produced via Screenwest's Elevate+ Initiative –– Raising Thunder premiered at CinefestOz 2023 and was nominated for Best Short Film. The proof-of-concept short then received further development funding, and Jesse is writing the Raising Thunder feature screenplay.
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