Andrew Sully

ANDREW SULLY is a filmmaker who has worked in both drama and documentary. In 2015 he directed Bespoke, an innovative three-part series for ABC TV about the global Maker movement, which was nominated for two 2016 ATOM awards. Before that, he wrote and directed Devil Island, a six-part natural history series for ABC TV, ITV and France 5. In 2009, he made the documentary Anatomy of a Massacre for ABC TV about a forensic investigation in Timor-Leste to find the missing protestors from the 1991 Santa Cruz Massacre. He also made Feral Peril for ABC TV, an ecological detective story about the threat of introduced feral carnivores in Tasmania. It won three awards at the 2009 International Wildlife Film Festival in Montana, USA. In 2005 he created and directed the acclaimed four-part ABC TV series The Shearers. Andrew's short drama films have won an ATOM award, Best Film at the St Kilda Film Festival and the Grand Prix at the Poitiers Film Festival. In 2023 his short film The Dam has screened at local and international film festivals and won the Audience Award at A Night of Horror International Film Festival. He lectures in screen arts at Sydney College of the Arts.

Filmography

SPIRITS OF TASI TOLU, THE » THE SPIRITS OF TASI TOLU investigates the impact of a controversial tourism development in Tasi Tolu (Three Lakes), the site of a series of massacres during Indonesia’s occupation of Timor-Leste (1975-1999)...