Kirstin Feddersen BSc is the director of Kirsko Film Animals Pty Ltd, Kirstin spent five years at Sydney University studying Animal Behaviour and then five years in the Veterinary Industry learning how to care properly for animals. In 2000 she won a Churchill Fellowship which allowed her to spend 10 wks in America working with some of the most talented Film Animal Trainers in the world. Since then, she returns to California every year to further her knowledge of the training of film animals.

Kirstin is also a stunt actor. This gives her a thorough knowledge of the stunt industry and an essential edge when Kirsko Film Animals work with stunt actors.

Experience

Feature films such as Jindabyne (dog and guinea pigs), Stealth (goats, pigs, ducks, chooks), Fat Pizza (dog), D anny Deckchair (pigeons), The Rage in Placid Lake (dog), The Three Stooges (dogs), Invincibles (pigeons), The Quiet American (dog, monkey, pigs, snakes), Minder (stunt work), Mullet (dogs, chooks), The Goddess of 67, (dingos, shingle back lizard), Soft Fruit (pigeons), Babe II, Oscar & Lucinda, The Island of Dr Moreau, Frauds.

Television series such as Chasing Nature (golden orb spiders), Home and Away (rats, horses, guard dogs, feral dog), Logie and AFI winning Out There I & II (many different animals perfor ming many behaviours), Australia’s Worst Driver (cattle, horse), Jeopardy, Rove Live, Totally Wild, The Big Cheez, Andrew Denton Show.