Rowan Woods

Rowan Woods (born 1959) is an Australian AACTA Award-winning film and television director, actor and screenwriter.

Rowan Woods
Born1959 (age 63–64)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupations
  • Film and television director
  • actor
  • screenwriter
Years active1988–present

Career

Film

Woods directed The Boys in 1998[1] and won an ACCTA Award for Best Direction.[2] The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] His next film, Little Fish was released in September 2005 starring Cate Blanchett.[4] His latest film, Fragments was released in 2009, and received mixed, but mostly negative reviews from critics.[5]

Television

He has directed episodes of television series including Farscape, Fireflies, Police Rescue, and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

In 2012, he directed The Straits and some episodes of Rake between 2012 and 2016. In 2016, he directed the acclaimed The Kettering Incident, and also Nowhere Boys.

In 2013, he directed The Broken Shore, a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.

References
  1. "Rowan Woods". Emerging Filmmakers Fund. 2009.
  2. "Snapshots from the Past: A sneak peek into the AFI Awards photo archive". Retrieved 6 February 2010.
  3. "Berlinale: 1998 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  4. Dan Edwards. "Director Rowan Woods talks about his latest feature Little Fish". Archived from the original on 13 October 2009.
  5. Rod Yates (2008). "Dakota Fanning vs Rowan Woods". Retrieved 6 February 2010.


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