Josh Fanning

Josh Fanning is a gentleman. He knows how to wear a cravat and he can slam Guinness down his gullet at an alarming rate. These facts, combined with his ability to string like… a quality sentence together, more than qualify him to advise on marketing strategies for The Mercury Cinema.

Local to Adelaide and very much a local influencer, Josh brings a strong community sensibility to the Mercury brand. Born with a DIY activist bent, Josh began his professional life with an interest in ethical and youthful editorial reportage, working first for ABC news radio, then moving to community radio national current affairs program, The Wire.

Josh spent five years as youth representative on Adelaide’s committee of Caritas Australia – a charitable NGO focusing on International Community Development and was former editor of sadly missed street press Merge (Vale) but is now instead co-publisher of Collect.

As a night-time vigilante he also runs Magazine Gallery, where he will rail on and on against elitism in art to anyone who will listen by purveying cheap beer and affordable, amazing art. Under its daytime Clark Kent coat, Magazine acts as an office where freelance design, writing, film-making, and other poor nerdy types come to exercise their MacBooks.

Josh is the flying doctor service for low-budget marketing and grass-roots cinema-building. Talk to him if you want to work with the Mercury budding brand!