27 & 28 June, 2024 | Byron Bay, NSW
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

Application deadline 5pm AEST, Wednesday 12 June.

Open to early-career screen directors from Regional NSW.

Screenworks is offering regionally-based screen directors an opportunity to connect with and learn from two of Australia’s most accomplished screen directors in a two-day intensive on the craft of screen directing.

Poppy Stockell (John Farnham; Finding the Voice) and Rowan Woods (The Boys, The Kettering Incident) will be guest tutors at Screenworks Directing Intensive in Byron Bay, NSW on the 27 & 28 June hosted at the luxurious Crystalbrook Byron Resort. Poppy and Rowan will advise selected early career regional screen directors on technique, skills and project development for film and television.

Entry to the Screenworks Directing Intensive is by application and is open only to current Screenworks Members. The 10 participants will be selected by a Screenworks panel and the directing tutor.

This is a rare opportunity to connect with and receive advice from a prominent Australian screen director.

The cost to selected applicants from regional NSW is $250 inc. GST* which includes tuition and catering.

Guest Speakers:

POPPY STOCKELL is an award-winning writer, director and producer with a penchant for stories exploring human identity, humour and the inherent contradictions of existence. She has written and directed for all of the major networks and her independent projects have played to big audiences at the world’s most prestigious festivals including SXSW, Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, New Orleans Film Festival, and the Sydney Film Festival. Her work has been recognised by an AACTA, a Walkley Award, a UN Media Peace Prize, two Logie nominations and the Audience Award at the Sydney Film Festival. Poppy’s latest film, John Farnham Finding the Voice, recently became the highest box office grossing Australian documentary of all time and her scripted comedy series Triple Oh! won the coveted Luna De Valencia Grand Jury Prize and is currently available on SBS On Demand. She is currently writing John Farnham’s memoir with the legend himself.

ROWAN WOODS is an award-winning director of television and feature films. Rowan set up The Kettering Incident, which won Best Miniseries at the 2016 AACTA Awards. His episodes were screened in competition at Series Mania Festival in Paris, beating out 80 other entrants to win the International Special Jury Prize. His other television credits include the US NBCUniversal series Hunters, and Rake and Nowhere Boys for the ABC

Rowan has earned several other awards and nominations for his work in television, including the Australian Directors Guild (ADG) Award for Best Direction in a Telemovie for The Broken Shore, another ADG nomination for Rake and an AFI nomination for Do or Die.

Rowan made his feature film debut in 1998 with The Boys, starring Toni Collette and David Wenham. The film was nominated for nine AFI Awards, winning Best Director, as well as receiving a nomination for a Golden Bear at Berlinale. Rowan’s acclaimed second feature, Little Fish, starring Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, was nominated for 13 AFI Awards, and 11 FCCA Awards. His first US feature, Fragments, starred Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, and Forest Whitaker.

The Screenworks 2024 Directing Intensive is supported by the NSW Government through Screen NSW, Crystalbrook Byron and TAG.