Cameron's Welcomes Filmmaker Alex Wu to the Agency
Cameron’s is thrilled to welcome writer-director Alex Wu to the agency.
Alex Wu is an award-winning Australian director and screenwriter, based in Melbourne, Australia.
Born and raised in Canberra, Alex made his first short film on Super 8mm at the age of seventeen. Compass (2011) won the Audience Choice Award at the 2011 Canberra Short Film Festival and top prize at the 2011 Leonid Film Awards.
Alex relocated to Melbourne to study at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) School of Film and Television in 2013. With his talent and hard work, Alex's work started to make its way out of Australia. In 2015, his short films Beneath the Cotton Clouds (2014) and Freight Train (2014) screened at acclaimed international festivals including the LA Indie Film Festival, Toronto Student Film Festival, Edmonton International Film Festival and Barcelona Film Festival. In 2016, his graduate film Motown (2015) had its world premiere at the prestigious 60th BFI London Film Festival, followed by a successful international festival run.
In 2019, Alex received the New Colombo Plan Scholarship to attend an Arts Residency at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
His graduate work, IDOL (2019), was awarded the prestigious Dendy Award for Best Australian Live-Action Short Film at the 2020 Sydney Film Festival, two awards at the 2020 Brooklyn Film Festival for Best Male Actor and the Spirit Award in Short Narrative, and nominations at the 2020 Australian Directors’ Guild Awards and the AACTA Awards. Other festival selections include Flickerfest, Adelaide Film Festival and Revelation Perth International Film Festival.
In 2020, Alex directed A Reminder, an animated documentary short, in collaboration with Shark Island Institute and the Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF) in association with The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, as a part of their VoxDocs initiative, which invited eight Australian filmmakers to make short films about the current state of the performing arts in Australia. He was also commissioned to create a 3-channel video installation, titled Frisson, for the University of Melbourne’s Old Quad 2021 exhibition, Multivocal.
Alex was recently named a recipient of the 2021 Closer Productions and Adelaide Film Festival Micro-Grant for Diverse Voices, and is currently in development for a number of narrative projects including a half-hour contemporary dramedy, a feature film, and a political comedy series.
http://alexwufilm.com/
For screen enquiries regarding Alex Wu please contact Chelsea Thistlewaite via email or on (02) 9319 7199.
