Andrew O’Keefe
2019 Judge
Role/organisation
Lecturer
The University of Melbourne
Location
Vic.
Australia
Short bio
Andrew O’Keefe is a senior lecturer at the VCA Film and Television. Andrew’s company, Apocalypse Films, produced his debut feature film The Independent in 2008. FilmInk magazine labelled it ‘a rare gem in the Australian comedy landscape’. His second feature (2016), an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment, won more than a dozen awards and was selected to open the world academic conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of the novel. He is now knee-deep in a practice-led PhD and soon to be producing and directing his third feature film.