TONY ROGERS- WRITER / DIRECTOR 

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CURRENT PROJECTS

EMERALD HILL - HISTORICAL DRAMA SERIES

LEVY’S LONG GAME  DOCUMENTARY

LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS - MEDIA LITERACY PROGRAM

DESCENDANT FILMS - RESEARCH & HISTORY

THE UPSTANDER PROJECT - YOUTH MEDIA PRIZE

CREATIVE CURRENCY STORYTELLING LAB

TRIPLE AXEL TALENT AGENCY

MEDIA LITERACY television with a blue screen displaying a sneaker with a plant growing out of it, resembling a bouquet, against a bright pink background.
A man with messy dark hair, glasses, and wearing a black jacket is speaking at a microphone and gesturing with his hand in a room with a mural and blue wall.
A woman with long brown hair and red lipstick wearing large retro gold glasses and a colorful plaid shirt, standing in front of a microphone with a blurred background of blue walls and artwork.
Two women sitting at a table, with one woman talking into a microphone and the other woman adjusting her glasses. The table has books on it, and there are colorful paintings on a blue wall behind them.
A woman with dark hair and glasses looking towards the camera, with a blue wall with framed pictures behind her. She is making a peace sign with her left hand.
A man with glasses and a beard, wearing a black t-shirt, sitting at a table with a microphone, in a room with a blue wall.
A middle-aged woman with curly gray hair and black glasses sitting at a table, with a blue wall behind her decorated with small framed pictures, and a microphone in front of her.
CREATIVE INDUSTRY NETWORK 🎥 📷 STORYTELLING WITH PURPOSE A woman smiling and speaking into a microphone, wearing glasses and a colorful plaid jacket, with abstract artwork on a blue wall in the background.
CREATIVE INDUSTRY NETWORK 🎥 📷 STORYTELLING WITH PURPOSE Man in red blazer and glasses sitting at a table with a microphone, papers, and a book in front of him, in a room with blue and white walls and a plant in the background.
A woman with curly gray hair and glasses smiling into a microphone during a recording or interview, with colorful abstract artwork in the background.

‘Creative Currency’ STORYTELLING LAB.

PEER TO PEER CONVERSATIONS.

ON BEING CREATIVE, THE CURRENCY OF SACRIFICE AND FINDING THE SILVER LININGS.

A cultural archive project capturing the lived reality of Melbourne’s creative HIGH ACHIEVERS.

Intimate, filmed conversations - peer to peer format - between inspiring creative forces in Melbourne.

The project documents the ideas, sacrifices, DNA, family inter generational patterns that have shaped the city’s cultural landscape.

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A man with glasses and a beard, smiling, sits at a desk with a microphone, in front of a blue wall decorated with colorful paintings, possibly in an art gallery or studio.
STROWNIX 1
A woman with dark curly hair, red lipstick, and a metallic jacket speaking into a microphone during a podcast or interview, with another person partially visible beside her.
A person with glasses wearing a woven hat and a colorful, patterned shirt, speaking into a microphone against a blue background with abstract art.
A woman with short brown hair, wearing glasses and a colorful plaid shirt, sitting in front of a blue wall with abstract artwork, speaking into a microphone during a presentation or interview.

DR. LEE KOFMAN & ADAM KRONGOLD IN CONVERSATION 15 DECEMBER 2025

TRIPLE AXEL INTERN PROGRAM

ON THE MORNING OF December 15 2025 THE WORLD WOKE UP TO NEWS OF UNIMAGINABLE SCALE AND tragedy. OUR PRODUCTION TEAM PLANNED TO FILM CREATIVES IN CONVERSATION DISCUSSING THEIR PERSONAL CREATIVE PROCESS. OUR GUESTS ALSO HAPPENED TO BE JEWISH.

THAT MORNING WE KNEW THE PRODUCTION HAD TO PIVOT. THE REALITY OF THE BONDI DEATH TOLL RISING EVERY HOUR MEANT THIS SESSION WOULD BE DOCUMENTING TRAUMA IN REAL TIME.
DR.Lee Kofman and Adam Krongold MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR STUDIO. THEN QUICKLY move beyond personal narrative into something QUITE unexpected.
BEYOND UNIMAGINABLE GRIEF - WE WITNESS THE WARMTH AND GRACE OF A conversation shaped by WISDOM, INSIGHT and THE POWER OF silver liningS.

ADAM KRONGOLD:

“Yesterday in Sydney there was mass murder and people were killed. Jews were killed just for being Jewish on a day, on the first day of Chanukkah, which is a holiday celebrating Jews being able to be Jewish in their indigenous homeland, Israel.

So it's quite ironic, and maybe I still haven't found any silver lining in this at this point, with regard to that, because I'm still processing and still aligning, there has to be - there has to be. There will be, and there is - and that's the way I take it. I'm not imposing on anyone or anything, but it's for me. This is where I find resilience, in finding the thing, in anything, to take me to the next point and to move forward.

And being around so many creatives, I've met so many people that I wouldn't ordinarily have met. I get to engage with yourself for example.”

TRIPLE AXEL CREATIVE PROGRAM
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DR LEE KOFMAN

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A woman in a red sweater sitting at a table with a microphone, gazing thoughtfully with her hand on her chin, while a man with a cap is blurred in the foreground, inside a studio or recording room.
A woman with red hair in a red sweater sitting at a table with a microphone in front of her, resting her chin on her hand, in a room decorated with colorful abstract paintings.

The conversation shifts now to Krongold interviewing Dr. Lee Kofman.

Kofman reflects on a paradox shaping shaping her creative vision and process. Constraint has the potential to sharpen one’s artistic voice.

Drawing on her experience growing up under Soviet censorship, Kofman observes that periods of restriction often give rise to independent, underground forms of expression work that is urgent, self-determined, and resistant to institutional gatekeeping.

I’ve been working on a story about my life for a long time, but only since October 7 have I found the framework - the structure for how to tell it.

It’s really a story of growing up—with parents who were dissidents in the Soviet Union, religious Jewish dissidents.

I’m not religious at all, but I come from a very religious, ultra-Orthodox family. I always rebelled against my parents. I left religious school when I was fourteen.

And in everything I did in my work, in my private life, I made sure to say: I am not like my parents.

Then October 7 happened. I’d organised a WhatsApp group for Jewish creatives. We were doxxed. I was abused online. Some writing organisations wouldn’t employ me.

For more than fifteen years I was regularly employed.

And then suddenly I was the ‘bad Jew,’ the one organising other Jews.

I remember being at Goldstone Gallery, talking about artists who had been excluded, spaces for dissidents and thinking about that history.

And I had this moment -oh my God, I am like my parents.

At the moment, almost every Jewish artist who does not publicly deny their indigeneity is treated as a dissident.

And that gave me the structure.

Now I’m writing about the parallels between my parents experience and my own.

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Burkin and Tovo IN CONVERSATION

An unexpected first encounter between Gwendolynne Burkin and Christopher Tovo unfolds. Moving through Australia’s cultural landscape of the 1990’s

What emerges is more than nostalgia.
It is a quiet reckoning with the present:

What happens to craft when visibility replaces substance - and what remains when the signal of social media begins to collapse?