Key Guest Lecturers
Damien Spiccia
School: WA Screen Academy, Edith Cowan UniversityField of Teaching: Screen Studies
Website Reference: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3319397/
Major Achievements: Damien graduated from the WA Screen Academy in 2005 and won a screenwriting award the following year for his first musical short, A Trick of the Moonlight. In 2008 he was awarded Link funding for Deep End, a mix of live-action and animation, and in 2010 he was awarded HyperLink funding for his second musical short, Light as a Feather. He has also directed episodes of locally-produced children's TV drama Castaway. In 2011 he received the Bill Warnock Award for Emerging Screen Writers for his script Beyond the Pale.