Cast

Text Box: Paul Reichstein hails from South Australia where he earned a degree in Drama from the prestigious Flinders University Drama Centre in 2000. His first acting gig out of university was as Brian in the American TV film shot in South Australia entitled Disappearance (2002) opposite Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey. Following a guest spot on the hit Australian TV series McLeod’s Daughters, he decided to move to Melbourne to further pursue his acting. As Paul says “when I was out of work in Adelaide I was depressed, when I’m out of work in Melbourne I’m slightly less depressed.” Reichstein has also appeared in Blue Heelers, as a Young Father in a heavily played TV commercial for Heinz Baby Food as well as various short films and theatre. Sean Scully is the most experienced campaigner in Missive. Beginning as a child actor following on from actress mother Margaret Christensen, Scully performed in a trio of Walt Disney productions including Almost Angels (1962). He returned to Australia in the late 1960s where he has enjoyed a film and television career ever since. His television credits include Riptide, Matlock Police, Homicide, Division 4, The Sullivans, Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, Phoenix, Pacific Drive, and more recently Neighbours to name but a few. Scully received an AFI Award Nomination for Best Actor in 1988 for his performance in the film Phobia (1990). Among his extensive list of film appearances are the classic Australian films Sunday Too Far Away, Eliza Fraser, Cactus (with Isabelle Huppert) and the lead in Daisy and Simon. Sean Scully is considered a member of Australia’s list of seminal performers who has been around since the beginning. The naturally beautiful, multi-talented Michelle Cele describes her acting career as somewhat fortuitous. Claiming she got into acting “by mistake” when she accompanied her husband to an acting workshop for moral support. He didn’t like it but Michelle did, which has lead to a variety of film and TV appearances including Neighbours and more notably as Mother in the “You Know They Got a Hell of a Band” segment of Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006). Michelle has also appeared in the sci-fi thriller Parallels (2006) and the short film spoofing the filmmaking process entitled The Trial of Film (2006) (both directed by Ben Warner of Digicosm). Maybe acting is a mistake she can live with following her initial success. To add to her acting talents, Michelle is also a still photographer most recently performing such duties for Erwin Films’ Desolation Angels (2006). Andy McPhee would have to be one of the hardest working Australian actors going around. Originally from Adelaide, Andy moved to Melbourne to pursue his acting career. Among his many acting credits are Roy Holsdotter Live, Bad Eggs, Tom White, You and Your Stupid Mate, Wolf Creek, Opal Dream, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, Book of Revelation, and The Condemned . Andy’s daughter Sianoa Smit-McPhee is a regular on Neighbours as Bree Timmins and his son Kodi Smit-McPhee has recently appeared in Romulus, My Father opposite Eric Bana and Franka Potente.

Fr. Peter Edwards is the author several plays and an opera; for which he received a number of arts grants to produce and perform at a few of Perth's Artrage Festival ten years ago, as well having been for some time the Editor-in-chief of a wine 'n' dine magazine. Fr. Peter has performed in a few amateur & semi-professional productions and has had some of his poetry published in Literary Mouse Press. He is a post graduate in linguistics, anthropology, theology and literary theory.

Sister of the multi-talented Gregory Pakis and whose married name inspired Garth Petridis, the surname of Gregory’s alter-ego and lead character from The Garth Method (2004). Zina is not an actress, yet now has two acting credits thanks to having a brother connected to the industry. Zina also appeared in The Garth Method (2004).

Lola is Zina’s youngest daughter and our prediction is that she will grow up to be a star.

Tom Vogel first burst out of the gates in 2004 when he made a little known horror comedy entitled The Angry Penguin (2004) which made Tom angry enough to find The Angry Film Festival. The festival continues on and is growing bigger and bigger each year. Tom’s jack-of-all-trade credits include The Good Samaritan (2005), producing duties for the feature film Life o’Simon (2007) and recently wrote and acted in the short film Unknown Combo (2007) starring Andy McPhee.

Also Writer/Producer/Assistant Director/Financier of Missive (2007). See Crew section.

Self-proclaimed guerilla exhibitor and multi-award winner, Gregory Pakis is the writer/director/star of The Garth Method. Pakis and his film have appeared in such film publications as Filmink, Film Threat, eFilmCritic and Moviehole. He has appeared in One for the Money (opposite John Flaus), Spring Rhapsody, A Sufi Valentine and Paul Dowie’s debut short feature Caffeine which Pakis also co-wrote. Website: www.charityfilmnight.com

Michael Hadjion is a close friend of Adam’s and is also the storyboard artist for Missive. Adam suggested to Daniel about possibly using Michael as one of the victim’s in the film as he believed that Michael is good at getting shot in movies. Michael was storyboard artist, executive producer and assistant director for Adam’s previous film Alaina (2004).

Heidy Medloby recently spent a year in Canada where she made appearances in George Romero’s Land of the Dead (2005) and the hit television series Queer as Folk. Upon her arrival back in Melbourne, Heidy inquired about the role of Lynn Boyle in Missive (2007). There were no parts available but Daniel still wanted to use Heidy in the film, so he wrote in the part of Victim’s Date especially for her. Heidy is moving to Los Angeles to further pursue her acting career in mid-2007.