Rosie Jones is an award-winning writer, director and editor. Her most recent feature documentary The Family, about the notorious Australian cult of the same name, premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2016 and won the FCCA award for Best Australian Feature Documentary. Other credits include The Triangle Wars (Best Australian Documentary, Antenna Documentary Festival 2011), Westall ’66: a Suburban UFO Mystery, Obsessed with Walking, about the Booker-nominated writer Will Self, Holy Rollers and Visions of Yankalilla. She has also edited numerous documentaries for Australian and international broadcasters. The Family is her first book.

Chris Johnston is a Melbourne-based journalist, writer and editor who worked for Fairfax Media’s The Age for twenty years before leaving this year to pursue new adventures.

Richard Fidler is the author of the best-selling Ghost Empire [ABC Books]: the story of his journey to Istanbul with his son Joe, to uncover the rich history of the lost Byzantine Empire. Richard is best known as the presenter of Conversations with Richard Fidler, broadcast across Australia on ABC Radio. Conversations is the most popular podcast in Australia, with three million programs downloaded every month. In another life Richard was a member of Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony Allstars (DAAS), which played to audiences all over the world.