Michael McLennan

2021 Judge

Role/organisation

Director
Wavelength Films

Lecturer
Various secondary and tertiary institutions

Location

NSW
Australia

Short bio

Michael McLennan is an Australian-based writer/director whose short films have played at film festivals around the world, and include Standby, A Tea Party for Sad People, Go Quickly, Pinch Me and Traveller. He was Head of Production and Head of Film at Sydney Film School from 2015–2019, and has supervised over 550 short films made at that school and others. He currently has three feature scripts in development, and teaches film at the Academy of Film Theatre and Television, Excelsia College, AFTRS, Bradfield Senior College, TAFE NSW and the Academy of Information Technology.