Biography

Australian Film Director and Screenwriter. Directed 'Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher' starring Oscar Winner® Russell Crowe, Ray Winstone, Marton Csokas, Jodhi May, Matt Hookings and Steven Berkoff in 2022. Wrote and Directed 'Opus Zero' with Willem Dafoe in 2017. In 2019 his second feature film as Writer and Director was 'The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica' with Timothy Spall and Peter Stormare.

In 2012 he was Line Producer on Carlos Reygadas' Cannes Film Festival Winner 'Light After Darkness'. Earlier in his career he directed short films in Australia and France, worked in film distribution and interviewed many great filmmakers including Abdel Kechiche, Edgar Reitz, Ludivine Sagnier, Catalin Cristutiu, Alexander Sokurov, Pablo Trapero, Fernando Trueba, Béla Tarr, Christophe Honoré, Louis Garrel, Saverio Costanzo, Filippo Timi, Cristian Mungiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Pavel Lungin, Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss, Jeanne Balibar, Paolo Sorrentino, Reha Erdem, Denis Dercourt, Deborah François, Abderrahamane Sissako, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Rafi Pitts, Aki Kaurismäki, Maria Jävenhelmi, Stéphane Brizé, Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, The Quay Brothers, Jacques Audiard, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Theo Angelopoulos, François Ozon, Gianni Di Gregorio, Jessica Hausner, Sylvie Testud, Laurent Cantet, Ari Folman, Olivier Assayas, Jérémie Renier, Götz Spielmann, Philippe Aractingi, Barbet Schroeder, Alan Ayckbourn, Todd Solondz, Mike Leigh, Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Wim Wenders, Tilda Swinton.