1. NAME: DEREK GIFFORD
D.O.B: 24 / 11 / 1960.
ADDRESS: 122 Sutcliff street Sea lake 3533
TELEPHONE: 0011 61 03 50701198
E:MAIL: mailto:mikekrupkesbasement@hotmail.com
WEB: http://www.myspace.com/mazykornfield ( re launch 2015 )
LABEL: "http://www.prussiadigital.com"
ABN: 35 817 618 691
SKILLS:
Sound design and production. The ability to create spontaneously
acting, voiceovers; radio & cartoons, script writing and general video production
WORK HISTORY
2003 – 2004 Day Manager, Royal Hotel, Sea Lake
Duties included: Stock control , Banking , Customer Service
Marketing ,Housekeeping and the general day-to-day running of the hotel.
1999 - 2014 Mazy Kornfield International
Duties: Video & Sound Production4
theatrical production, general writing and live performance
1987 – 1991 Westernway Pty Ltd
Duties included:
Sales & marketing , Banking, staff management
choreography, community & public relations, personal security
1981 - 1999
*ASO 2 level BB1 Officer The Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Duties included:
Public relations and marketing, Consular advice , document certification & issue
responsibilities
collection of public monies , liaison duties between Government Departments & Law
enforcement agencies , Legislative interpretation
travel advice and consultancy , security duties
2. VOLUNTEER WORK:
1986 - 2010
Victorian Museum of Natural history EG: tour guide 1986 - 89
Channel 31 public access television. Journalism and television duties 1995 -1999
2000 - 01 Meals on wheels for the Sea Lake District Hospital
2005 The Sea Lake beautification committee
2006 - 2007Advance Sea Lake, public work
2007 – 2009 Swan Hill Seed Bank, seed collecting and scientific research
2009 - 2010 Swan Hill Cemetery reclamation project
THEATRICAL & JOURNALISTIC EXPERIENCE
Various accents, which have been, developed through courses with
Performances at St Martins & David Armstrong School of Television and suburban theatre
groups.
1988 Opening sketch in Fast Forward episode
1996 – 1998 CH 31 Public Access Television
1996 – 1998 Trained in video operation, studio floor manager, directors assistant
1996 – 1998 Northern Access Television News journalist
13-episode television drama " Bowen Crescent "
2001 – 2004 Times Ensign, sports journalism
1999 – 2013Working as Mazy Kornfield (own company)
PREVIOUS PRODUCED WORKS
Journey's End: RC Sheriff's 1st world war play 2006 ( 10 characters )
The Lord Prayer (A collection of vocal pieces to the same Aramaic theme)
The river Murray (A journey in time) a documentary in pre production 2006
Voiceover work for Mick Seymour 2005 - 2012 (Still in post pro)
Voiceover for The central link Movie for trop fest (David Sparx director) 2005 - 2006
Voiceover for a short Deacon film based on Charles Bukowski poem (Shona Masarin Director
2006)
Script written for THE CHASE (Director Thomas Boarder) 2006 in Pre Pro
Walden Pond 2006 ( 4 characters )
Box of Love production manager (Director Sharon Wong) 2006
A day in the mind script edit and video edit assoc pro (Director Joel Harvey) 2007 - 2008
3. Sasha 321 Voiceover (Director Jerome Greaney) 2007
The butcher producer (director Jarod riley) 2008
The Tempest Prospero and Caliban in Meadowlands. New York ( Dir Mustafa Sakyra 2009
Cut, unavailable
CURRENT PROJECTS
Theatre:
the narrator in the story A civil war bond by edward johnstone 06 /2014
http://www.civilwarbond.com
song writer / We all know too much ] book adaptation of the Chris Eales Novel
http://www.waktm.com/
Music Production:
Mike Krupke's Basement 2009 – 2014
http://www.myspace.com/mikekrupkesbasement ( relaunch in 2015 )
http://www.reverbnation.com/mikekrupkesbasement
lyrics and extra production on Miniatures by Francesco Di Fiore 2011
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Francesco-Di-Fiore/286938343341
lyric writing for kompoz music collective
www.kompoz.com
AUDIO MOVIES:
Shlomoe the Kosher Vampyre 2 – HIDDEN CLOISTERS - 2008 - present
( 42 characters.. north/east European Yiddish etc )
Currently looking for venue for production
Dracula 2015 http://www.myspace.com/mazykornfield
VIDEO SAMPLES
http://www.youtube.com/mazykornfield
for music video productions GOOGLE mazy Kornfield / mikekrupkesbasement in the
videos category
A brief introduction to 20th Century violence. (Documentary) 2005 & 2011 redeux
MKI Video collection 2000 - 2006
A is for America part 1 and 2 2006 - 2011 redeux
Children's Stories 2006
The Hoopoe of King Solomon
Ivanhoe
4. The Story of little black Sambo
Jabberwocky
The Mouse opera
various music clips 1999 -2011
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
Ballan house Boarding school: Oswestry, England 1964 -1966
Coatesville Primary school, East Bentleigh 1967 - 1971
Moorleigh High School 1972 - 1977
Freelance Journalism Degree: Australian School of Journalism 1995
Arts Photography: Incomplete Preston T.A.F.E 1992
Advanced certificate of Public Administration.
Royal Melbourne. Institute of Technology. Melbourne 1995 -1997
Diploma of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Deakin University, Geelong 1997 - 1999
GENERAL INTEREST:
Travel, Hiking & Camping, outdoor activities.
Cooking, B/W photography, Poetry, Movies, General Knowledge, Reading, history