I’m a screenwriter, film-maker and musician based in Melbourne, Australia.
FILM:
After an 8 year stint as a graphic designer, copywriter and director for various advertising agencies in Adelaide, South Australia, I began making music videos in 1993.
In recent years, I’ve been focusing on screenwriting. My first feature-length script, a biopic based on the life of 50s rock and roll singer Gene Vincent, was awarded Second Prize in the 2004 Nashville Screenwriters Conference script competition.
Alongside several other film projects, I’m currently developing a television series, ‘Balance Of Power’, with my co-writer Aaron Hawke, with funding from Film Victoria.
My two most recent films have been doing the festival rounds; ‘The Body Watchers’ was screened at the 2009 St Kilda Film Festival and the 2009 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, and was recently awarded Best Australian Short Film at the 2009 Sexy International Film Festival. ‘Mystic Eyes’ was screened at the 2009 Perth Revelation Film festival.
I’m also a film studies and screenwriting lecturer, and I curate the Screen Sect Film Society, which has run every Monday night since 2005.
MUSIC:
In 1994, I became a founding member of The Dumb Earth. We moved to Melbourne in 1995 and released 4 albums and a CD EP before I left the band in early 2006.
In 1996, I formed The Hired Guns, a 70s-country-rock-inspired band, with Chris Willard, Anthony Paine, Tim Deane and David Creese (later replaced by Kjirsten Robb). The Hired Guns was initially conceived as a side project from the members’ other musical concerns, but has latterly become the main focus for many of us. Our debut album, “Between Here & The Night” was released in 2002. A follow-up album, “Flyin”, is due for release in late 2009.
In 2005 I teamed up with with Karen Vogt, the lead singer from Heligoland, and my old high school friend Paul Cartwright, on a musical collaboration called Kurosawa. Our album, “Your Star Has Fallen Over”, was released in February 2009.
