Lucas Taylor

Lucas Taylor is an Australian screenwriter and director. He is known for the 2019 virtual reality (VR) sci-fi feature film Eleven Eleven and the 2022 Stan TV drama series Black Snow. He has won several AWGIE Awards.

Early life and education Taylor went to Pottsville Beach Primary School (NSW) where he was the dux in 1992. He attended Kingscliff High School (NSW). Lucas is an alumnus of the Griffith Film School in Brisbane, Queensland, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production.

Career From 2012 until 2016, Taylor was creative director at Hoodlum, a film production company based in Brisbane and Los Angeles. There he undertook work which included campaigns for major films and television series.

Taylor wrote and directed Inside Manus, a VR documentary about asylum seekers in Manus offshore detention centre commissioned by SBS VR. In 2017 the film premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the SPAA award for best interactive production.

Taylor's television work includes Harrow (TV series); Vikings: Athelstan's Journal; Secrets and Lies; Texas Rising: The Lost Soldier; and The Strange Calls. The series took three years to produce, with the storyline based on a cold case murder in the South Sea Islander community in the fictional town of Ashford in Queensland. Travis Fimmel stars as the detective, while Jemmason Power plays the murder victim's younger sister. The cast also includes Brooke Satchwell, Alexander England, Erik Thomson, Kim Gyngell, Rob Carlton, Jimi Bani, Daniela Farinacci, Lucy Bell, Talijah Blackman-Corowa, and Eden Cassady. Ziggy Ramo collaborated with composer Jed Palmer to produce all of the music for the show, and also appears in it. The series is directed by Sian Davies, and spans two different time periods, in 1994 and 2019. After its "Blue Carpet" screening on 27 December 2022, all six episodes were released on 1 January 2023 on Stan. It screened on Sundance Now in the U.S. from 2022.

Recognition and awards 2017: Greg Coote Scholarship

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