Dreamweavers - Gidja Walker OAM

Heather Forbes-McKeon is a playwright, screenwriter, poet, short film director and producer and radio producer. Heather wrote, co-directed and produced the short film series ‘Dreamweavers’ (2021-2023). She wrote and produced the short film ‘The Shell’ in 2018. She also produced a series of ten radio plays for RPP FM over 2017 - 2018. Melbourne Writer’s Theatre have produced some of her works including: ‘Hope’ in 2017, ‘‘Desperate & Dirty at Twilight’ in 2019 and both 'Iso in Fountain Lakes' and ‘This Sheila’s Lockdown’ in 2020. Heather completed a Masters in Writing and Literature at Deakin University in 2014. Heather is the founder and convenor of Poets Corner; a Mornington Peninsula based group of performance-bards.

Yanni Dellaportas
is a professional visual storyteller who resides and works on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, as a well-established photographer and digital artist. Yanni began creating and directing short films in 2018. Yanni collaborated with Forbes-McKeon on the short film series ‘Dreamweavers’ (2021- 2023) as co-director, cinematographer, editor and music composer.
Past credits include: ‘The Shell’ (2018), ‘Liquid’ (music video- 2018), Beautiful Storm (2023) and as co- director on ‘Dreamweaver – Jacquie Beddows’ (2022). He is currently collaborating as co-director on web-series of documentaries entitled ‘Dreamweavers’.
Yanni’s award-winning photographs have been exhibited in fine art and photographic exhibitions across Australia. His work is widely recognised having been published in leading Australian newspapers, magazines, photo books and international novels.
Since the 1990s his work as a photojournalist and innovative digital artist has kept Yanni’s work in the public consciousness. His photographs are immediately recognizable. From iconic landscapes to breathtaking thunderstorms, local wildlife or the people in his community, Yanni’s photographs are synonymous with quality and insight.