Pit Crew

Barrie Osborne was a producer for the highly successful and critically acclaimed The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy. Along with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Osborne took home the Best Picture Academy Award® in 2004 for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Osborne has also worked as either producer or executive producer on such films as The Matrix, Face/Off, China Moon and The Big Chill.

Barrie earned a degree in sociology from Carleton College before joining the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Building roads and bridges in Korea he rose to the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

In 1970 Osborne returned to New York and got a job as a runner in a studio that made commercials. Using experience gained there, he secured a prestigious internship with the Directors Guild of America. Barrie soon found himself working under such great directors as Francis Ford Coppola, Alan Pakula and Sydney Pollack.

Michael Garlick has produced and directed over 350 television broadcasts for major international broadcasters including Cox Cable in the United States. Motorsport television coverage became Garlick’s forte and he produced numerous motor racing and sports coverage broadcasts.

Producing a film on Bruce McLaren has been a life long dream for Garlick and he originally started experimenting with this subject at Laguna Seca, California in the mid 1990s. The Bruce McLaren movie is the result of steady development and perseverance over almost twelve years.

Michael himself started racing in the late 1970s with a home built Formula Ford. He raced for several seasons before becoming a professional race mechanic. This took him all over the world preparing Formula Atlantic race cars. He continued to race occasionally in California.

Motor Racing led to a marketing career, which involved the making of television commercials. TV commercials led to him evolving his skills to become a cable television producer and director, primarily with Cox Cable in America and then with Saturn Sport in New Zealand.

Dan Hennah worked as an art director on The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy and won an Academy Award® for Art Direction on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. He was also nominated for an Academy Award® for his work on King Kong.

Hennah’s other film credits include art director on The Frighteners, Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, White Water Summer and Savage Islands. He has also worked as a production designer for television including the Cloud 9 television series’ "The Tribe", "Twist in the Tale", "William Tell" and "Treasure Island".

Born in Hastings, New Zealand, Hennah studied architecture at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Architecture. Hennah's first position in the film industry was as a production assistant on the film Prisoner.

Matthew Grainger has written for advertising, television and film. He is co-writer, with Jonathan King, of The Tattooist, directed by Peter Burger and was script consultant on King’s debut feature Black Sheep, set for worldwide release in 2007.

His original screenplay The Collective is being developed by Eyeworks Touchdown Films, and he and King are developing a number of feature projects through their production company, Index Films.

Matthew spent his teenage years in Brussels, a handy two-hour drive from the Spa-Francorchamps racing circuit, where he attended his first F1 Grand Prix in 1992. A Team McLaren supporter, Matthew was on-hand for David Coulthard and Mika Hakkinen’s historic – if controversial – McLaren 1-2 finish in the 1998 Australian GP.