Peter Enright
Writer-Director and
"Camera Dude"

Peter has over 20 years of award - winning TV & film production experience to his credit in news, documentary, current affairs, TV commercials, music videos, drama and corporate productions. His thirst for creative challenges has taken him to some of the coldest, dangerous and most remote corners of our planet. Now he's made it safely back to the Sunshine Coast in one piece, and joined the Fountainhead team. He's also teaching video production part-time at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

In 1996, after several years working in London, Peter defected to Moscow, where he somehow survived for 5 years producing, directing, shooting and editing news, documentary and corporate productions for PTS Moscow Bureau, an established independent British TV production company. Work drove him across the length and breadth of Russia and the former Soviet republics, from the Baltics to Kamchatka, directing, shooting and editing under harsh and difficult conditions, like assignments in war-torn Chechnya and the rugged mountains of northern Afghanistan. He's shot and produced documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4's Eurotrash, plus international breaking-news events such as President Clinton's 1997 visit, the election of President Putin, the Kursk submarine tragedy, the shutdown of the Chernobyl reactor complex and the 2001 International Olympic Committee congress in Moscow.

To say that he's led a colourful existence in this far-flung corner of the planet is something of an understatement. Peter is planning a photo and video exhibition and writing a book on his own "Russian experience"; being attacked by Russian soldiers in Chechnya, groped by drunken women while shooting in a Moscow striptease bar, freezing his butt off in minus 45 (that's Centigrade) in Siberia, and covertly filming inside a mobile nuclear ICBM launcher at a secret Russian military base. He's even knelt in bear shit for the sake of a good camera angle.

Other stuff he's done for fun, adventure and money:

Filmed total solar eclipses in South Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Mexico, Peru, India, Venezuela and Bulgaria, some with Queen's Brian May.
Directed and edited for London's TVam, the highly successful breakfast TV news network run by Aussie Bruce Gyngell.
Directed for MTV Europe and VH-1 in London.
Edited stories for Terry Willesee Tonight.
Taught computer editing at the Australian Film & TV School.
Won Best Training Video in the 1985 Corporate Video Awards.
Directed, shot and edited several music videos.
Won Australian Writers and Art Directors Awards, a Silver Plaque in the 1986 New York Film Festival, finalist selection in the 1988 Australian Video Festival Awards, and represented Australia at the 1989 Montpelier Video Festival in France.
Co-produced and directed "RadioVision", a pilot for a radical new music video show.
Edited a documentary on Robert Swan's historic 1985 walk to the South Pole which helped fund 'Icewalk', Swan's 1989 record-setting international trek to the North Pole.
Filmed 50th Anniversary Battle of Britain Celebrations and edited "Images Of The Gulf War" for the David Frost Show.
Attended the London National Film School's Directing Actors for the Camera course. The
Wrote screenplays and TV series outlines.

'Peter has a unique way of seeing things, a distinctive gift for breathtaking visuals and an amazing attention to detail. ' William Hall Author, President of the Film Critic's Circle London.

We are most fortunate to have someone of Peter's skill and enthusiasm filming our progress at Fountainhead. It will be an ever-evolving story and we look forward to the completion of the documentary.