Julian Shaw

Julian Shaw has built an impressive career in both filmmaking and film criticism, despite his tender age. He won the 2007 IF Independent Spirit Award for his debut documentary 'Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story', which was also runner-up in the Panorama Audience Awards at the 2008 Berlinale, voted on by some 20,000 filmgoers. 'Darling!' won Best Documentary Medium in Australasia's largest international documentary competition DOCNZ, where Julian also received the coveted DOCNZ Best Emerging Filmmaker award. Julian won an Australian Film Institute Award for film criticism in 2002. He is the author and photographer of the ground-breaking photo-novel 'Modern Odysseus', featuring Australian actor Colin Friels.