ABOUT ME

Drew Macdonald is an award-winning Australian / Kiwi filmmaker with a love for genre storytelling that explores what makes us human.

 

His short films, CREEPER and HERE THERE BE MONSTERS, have played at over one hundred festivals worldwide and racked up over 50M views online leading to feature versions of both going into development in the U.S. with Orion Pictures (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) and Di Bonaventura Pictures (TRANSFORMERS, PET SEMETARY) respectively. 

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His action thriller series, ONLY ONE SURVIVES developed through the Impact Australia program, is being produced by Bryan Unkeless (I TONYA, HUNGER GAMES) at Clubhouse Pictures for Amazon Studios US. He has also worked in multiple writers rooms for projects for Netflix, Freemantle, and Essential.

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He has a love for directing short form content cutting his teeth in music videos and has directed promotional content for brands including Netflix, Nickelodeon, Foxtel and worked with actors such as Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Radcliffe, and Ethan Hawke.

 

Outside of writing and directing, he was a producer on the Emmy-nominated and AACTA winning feature documentary; ONLY THE DEAD, for H.B.O and he co-wrote and produced THE WANDERERS, for ABC Australia - directed by Selina Miles.  

 

He has been nominated for an AWGIE and was named one of SPA’s Ones To Watch and has had multiple projects supported by Screen Australia and Screen Queensland. He’s repped by CAA & 3 Arts Management in the U.S. and has also taught Screenwriting &  Directing at the New York Film Academy, Australian campus.