ACADEMIC: 2025 UniSA Creative's nominee Research & Enterprise Higher Degree Researcher Award 2024 UCLA Distinguished Mentor Award recipient 2022 University of South Australia Critically Creative Research Award HDR Colloquium recipient 2015 University of New England Ian Loaney Prize in Politics recipient SCREEN AWARDS 2025 Australian Directors’ Guild for micro-drama cinematography.  2023 Darklands Australian Directors’ Guild Best Director (under 1mil) nom; Australian Cinematographers’ Silver Award win 2022 Darklands AACTA Best Independent Feature Film nom; 2005–17 Thirty AACTA award wins and finalists for my ABC commissioned programs; nine local and international wins and two finalists for The Op Shop; over seventy local and international wins and finalists for my commissioned content for TVNZ 1997 Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Episode in a Television Drama Serial, ed 

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