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Festivals & Awards

2025 Revelations Perth International Film Festival, Creatures

2024 Reel Good Film Festival, Tadpoles

2024 Ariano International Film Festival, Lacerate  

2024 20minmax Kurzfilmtage, Lacerate

2024 L’Europe autour de l’Europe, Lacerate

2023 Distinction Honours Graduate (Directing Fiction, London Film School), Lacerate

2023 Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Lacerate

2023 Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Tadpoles

2022 Winterthur Kurzfilmtage (Sparks Junior Program), Tadpoles

2022 Australian Director’s Guild Awards
Nominee Best Direction In A Student Film, Tadpoles


2021  Rhode Island International Film Festival, Tadpoles

2021 Flickerfest International Short Film Festical, Tadpoles





(Observing alongside Apichatpong Weerasethakul, PlayLab 2023)





(International Filmmaking Academy 2024 with Andrey Zvyagintsev)
JAMES  







Development

IFA Bologna w/ Andrey Zvyagintsev

PlayLab Mexico w/ Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Locarno Film Festival BaseCamp Participant

MA In Filmmaking (Graduating Director w/ Distinction Honours) - London Film School

Bachelor of Arts (Majoring in Screen and Cultural Studies) - University of Melbourne
SciencesPo University Paris: Certificate in Social Sciences and Humanities (Exchange Program)





(2nd Assistant Directing feature film SLANT alongside 1st Assistant Director James Short)






Physical Theatre + Clown
(Taught By)


Fabio Motta
Budi Miller
Kimberly Twiner
Piotr Szczęsny Sikora
Kristine Landon-Smith