Me me me — all about me

I'm an AACTA and 3 x Australian Directors Guild (ADG) nominee Australian film and television director.  My work draws heavily on my experiences growing up in Alice Springs and living with a disability to explore unique characters through a compassionate but darkly comic lens.

I began making films in 2007 after a motorcycle accident led to me becoming a paraplegic. One of my early projects was filming the National Motocross Championship, and after realising I was out of my depth, I moved to Melbourne in to study film making. My graduating film, A Static Wind, won Best Tertiary Short Fiction at the 2016 ATOM awards and earned me a finalist position in the 2017 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship.

I produced and starred in the feature documentary Finke:There and Back with Brindle Films, which was distributed by Madman Entertainment. The following year, I directed Burlesque Blokes, a 22-minute documentary exploring the life of an Australian male stripper, with over 3 million views online. I also directed The Legend of Burnout Barry, a TV special for ABC and ACTF, which earned me a nomination for Best Direction in a Children’s Program at the 2020 ADG Awards.

In 2021, I made my series direction debut, directing two episodes of the ABC Kids/Netflix series MaveriX, where I also served as a co-creator with Rachel Clements and Sam Meikle. The show was nominated for Best Kids Television Show at the 2022 AACTA Awards and I received two further ADG nominations.

Recently, I directed the short film Don’t Come In… Yet! featuring Oli Pizzey-Stratford, Ella Newton, Toby Truslove, and Warwick Capper. The film is currently on the festival circuit, having screened at; CinefestOZ, Flickerfest, St Kilda, Dances with Films and Calgary International Film Festival. 

I was listed as one of Inside Films RISING STARS director for 2022.

In the same year, I directed the documentary We Are Sexual Beings for SBS/NITV, which explores what it’s like to be young, disabled, and sexual in modern Australia. Additionally, I served as series director for the 15-episode web series Wildlifers for ABC ME.

I currently have several projects having received development finding, including SHAFTED, a dark comedy about a FIFO worker injured in a mining accident, and HARD AS PUCK, a feature documentary following Australia’s first national Para Ice Hockey team as they attend the world championships—think Cool Runnings meets Murderball.

For film and TV inquiries, contact Wendy Howell @ Creative Rep

For general inquiries or project collaboration, feel free to reach out directly at isaacelliott@live.com.au