Peter Duncan

Writer | Director

Peter Duncan is a highly experienced director and screenwriter. His first feature film, Children of the Revolution, received 9 AFI nominations, winning 3 awards, and 7 Film Critics Circle Award nominations, winning for Best Screenplay. The film also won Best Feature Film at the Canberra International Film Festival, 1996. Peter wrote, directed and co-produced the comedy A Little Bit of Soul, starring Geoffrey Rush and Frances O'Connor, which was nominated for 2 AFI Awards; directed Passion, starring Barbara Hershey and Richard Roxburgh; and wrote and directed Unfinished Sky, which received 10 AFI nominations – winning 5 Awards, and was nominated for 8 IF Awards – winning 3.

Peter was a co-creator, writer, director and producer of Rake (2010 - 2018) produced by Easy Tiger/ Essential Media for the ABC. The series garnered multiple award nominations and wins, including 4 AACTA nominations for Best TV Drama and 4 Logie Award nominations for Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie. Peter himself won a 2011 and 2014 AWGIE Award, the 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the 2016 AACTA Award for Best Direction, and received a 2012 ADG Award nomination, and a 2015 AACTA Award nomination (Best Screenplay) for his work on the show. Peter also wrote the US pilot spin-off of Rake (2014).

In 2020, Peter’s series Operation Buffalo won Best Comedy at the Berlin Television Festival. He was a producer and the sole writer and director for all six episodes, which received 10 AACTA Nominations including Best Screenplay in Television and Best Telefeature or Miniseries. Peter most recently wrote the feature film The Correspondent, starring Richard Roxburgh.

Peter is currently in development on a number of television and feature projects.

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