SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS

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• Cusco WebFest 2024: WINNER: Best International Digital Series Fanny Scat Investigates 

• LA WebFest 2024: NOMINATED: Best Comedy and Michael Ajakwe Jnr. Achievement Award Fanny Scat Investigates

• Miami WebFest 2024: NOMINATED: Best International Pilot Bogan Moths

• Just For Laughs, Montreal 2023: WINNER: Stand Up and Pitch: series development Bogan Moths

• Queer Screen 2023: Completion Funding Recipient, Fanny Scat Investigates

• Stareable Fest LA 2023: WINNER: Best Virtual Filmmaking, Bogan Moths

• Australian Writers' Guild 2022: RUNNER UP: John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science Fiction Writing: TV Pilot script Risen

• St Kilda Film Festival 2022: NOMINATED: Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Young Actor Risen

• Melbourne International Animation Festival 2022: Bogan Moths

• FirstGlance Film Festival LA 2022: NOMINATED: Most Imaginative Film, Best Cinematography, Best VFX, Best Young Actors Risen

• Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art: "The Magic Arts: Australian Animation from 1970s to Now": Ephemeral

• Rochester International Film Festival 2022: Pilè

• L.A. Shorts International Film Festival 2021: WON: Best Sci-Fi Film Risen

• Slamdance Film Festival & Arclight Cinema LA: Emergence 2020 Risen

• Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2020 Risen

• ATOM Awards 2019, WON: Best Short Fiction Pilè

• Berlinale Talents & Short Film Station, Berlin Film Festival 2017: Risen

• Oldenburg International Film Festival, Germany 2018 2017: Pilè

• Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2017: Fences

• Canberra Short Film Festival: WON: Highly Commended for Documentary Fences

• Cucalorus Film Festival, US: Fences

• Flickerfest International Short Film Festival: Dedo and Pilè

• ABC2 and ABC iview TV broadcast: Dedo

• Mardi Gras Film Festival - My Queer Career, WON: Best Film and Best Original Screenplay Hole

• Iris Prize, Cardiff - Finalist Hole

• AACTA/AFI "Social Shorts" Award, WON: Best Independent Film Chip

• Human Rights Arts & Film Festival: Part One: Love

• TEDxSydney, Opera House: Chip

• Antenna Documentary Film Festival: Part One: Love

• Melbourne International Animation Festival: Ephemeral
• Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Germany: Ephemeral
• Mardi Gras Film Festival: WON: Highly Commended Drvce od Kibrit
• ATOM Awards finalist: NOMINATED: Best Short Animation Ephemeral
• St Kilda Film Festival: NOMINATED: Best Short Animation WON: Best Sound Production Ephemeral. 
• Palm Springs Short Film Festival Ephemeral
• Dendy Awards: Sydney Film Festival: WON: Most Innovative Film Ephemeral.
• Reeling: Chicago Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: The Prodigal Son
• Newfest: The New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: The Prodigal Son
• IF Awards 2006: Best Short Documentary Award winner: The Prodigal Son
• Flickerfest: WON: Most Popular Film & Highly Commended Best Documentary The Prodigal Son
• Dendy Awards, Sydney Film Fest - WON: Highly Commended for Documentary The Prodigal Son

• Melbourne Queer Film Festival – WON: Highly Commended Award Broken
• Newfest: New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: Broken
• Sydney Film Festival: Broken