FILMMAKER & PHOTOGRAPHER. CREATIVELIVE EDUCATOR. FOUNDER OF FILMINGLIFE®. PODCAST HOST.

Courtney Holmes, is an American born Sydney-sider whose passion is to create beautiful, love soaked films and photos for families. She draws on 18+ years of experience as a storyteller and musician to create a nostalgic experience for her clients in her work through the use of carefully hand selected music and thoughtful, intentional storytelling.

Courtney’s experience as a photographer & videographer extends to winning a Gold Award in the Reportage Category at the Australian Photographic Prize, having a selection of her videos purchased for commercial use by Disney, and working with NSW Health on a large collection of family photo + video assignments for commercial use.

Courtney is a sought after speaker and educator on the Art of Filming Families. She is the founder of FilmingLife®, which is a multi platform educational resource, podcast, and community for filmmakers or photographers aspiring to be filmmakers, and she is also an educator at CreativeLive.

Courtney’s CreativeLive Class titled Filming Families: The Modern Family Video has had 46k students around the globe with a 100% recommendation rate, and as a result more and more photographers are starting to incorporate video into their family photography businesses.

Follow Courtney on Instagram @courtneyholmesfilmsandphotos

PHOTOGRAPHER. EDUCATOR.

Sophie is an extremely successful photographic artist located in Sydney, Australia and has been a professional photographer for more than 17 years, creating beautiful portraits of mothers, babies, and families. 

Sophie is also an accomplished educator with sold out in person workshops all around Australia. 

Follow Sophie on Instagram @sophieleaphotography

FILMMAKER & PHOTOGRAPHER.
FILMINGLIFE® COMMUNITY MANAGER. PODCAST HOST.

Kylie Purtell is a family filmmaker & photographer based in Sydney, Australia. She specialises in creating joyful, bold & creative family films for people that don't like to be photographed.

With a passion for creative experiments and a relentless sense of curiosity, Kylie's strengths lie in using creative techniques & colour to capture a family's unique story in a way that's both visually stunning and emotionally charged.

Kylie's work with the FilmingLife® Academy and as a mentor for new & emerging artists allows her the opportunity to do one of her favourite things - support & encourage new filmmakers to reach their highest potential in both art & business.

Follow Kylie on Instagram @KYLIEPURTELL

PHOTOGRAPHER. MEMORY CATCHER. EDUCATOR.

Michelle McKay is a photographic artist located in Geelong, Australia.

Her in-home photography business specialises in all things newborn and young families, but her personal work and lifelong obsession is documenting ‘the beautiful ordinary’, catching memories and making an honest and artful record of real life, while inspiring other photographers to do the same.

She’s the host of the We Are Memory Catchers community and membership, teacher of Telling Stories, which is a 15 week course that explores the specifics of how to make more intentional and artful storytelling imagery, and the creator of the Memory Catcher editing presets.

Michelle’s aspiration is to make art from the ordinary, so that over time, that which now seems mundane and routine will be remembered and cherished.

Follow Michelle on Instagram @michellemckayphotographer

ARTIST. AUTHOR. EDUCATOR.

Chloe, an expert in her field, has many titles to her name: author, storyteller, light seeker, global citizen, award winner, Nikon NZ Creator and Masters of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.

However, these don’t define Chloe’s essence, that comes from her ability to make us linger longer when experiencing her imagery and words. Largely achieved through her understanding of light and colour, while simultaneously embracing the rules of photography and rejecting them at the same time resulting in simply outstanding work.

Chloe is a committed creative freedom warrior encouraging fellow artists to seek out containers with which to grow from and not boxes to contain them. She does this through her book For The Love of The Photograph, it’s sister publication the creative journal, mentoring sessions and online courses. She can’t get enough of the tangible, creating and selling her work in many physical forms.

Follow Chloe on Instagram @chloelodgephotographer

PHOTOGRAPHER. FILMMAKER. MENTOR.

Amy Murgatroyd is a family filmmaker & photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mama by grace to two girls, Amy runs her Boston-based family photography/videography business on coffee and connection.

She’s inspired by travel, poetry, art, good food and heartfelt conversations.

Video ignited her passion for storytelling five years ago and led her to FilmingLife®, where, as a FilmingLifer Pro, she teaches and mentors with a desire to see filmmakers flourish.

Follow Amy on Instagram @amymurgatroydportraitsandfilms

Head of Operations. Masters in Business. Business Consultant. FilmingLife CFO

Daniel Holmes is an experienced Head Of Operations with a demonstrated history of working in the consulting industry. Skilled in Business Process, Business Planning, IT Operations, People Management and Culture Change. Daniel is a strong operations professional who graduated with his Masters Degree in Business from Australian Institute of Business.

Daniel is also CFO and Director of FilmingLife®, the company that he shares with his wife and founder of FilmingLife®, Courtney Holmes.

Daniel presented a talk at the FilmingLife® Retreat on Pricing for Photographers & Filmmakers which received rave reviews and glowing feedback. His unique perspective brings a fresh take on what it means to be profitable as a creative and what key strategies you should be implementing in your business in order to see long term success.

Daniel is a keen golfer, and spends his free time as Club Captain & Pennant Team Manager at his local course, Lynwood.