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Biography

Warwick Young completed his Master of Screen Arts – Directing degree at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 2013, during which he wrote and directed the short film Stuffed, which was awarded the 2013 European Union Film Award and for which Warwick was nominated for a 2014 Australian Directors Guild Award. Stuffed has been selected for official competition in several international film festivals including the 2014 Sydney Film Festival, where it competed in the Dendy Award for Best Australian Short film; the 59th Valladolid International Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Foreign Short Film; and the 2014 UK Film Festival where it won Best Student Film.

In 2012 Warwick wrote and directed the short films Reconciliation and Refuge. Reconciliation was a finalist in the 2014 Peninsula Short Film Festival. In 2007 Warwick produced, wrote and directed his first short film, U-Turn, which won best comedy at the 2007 Flake International Film Festival, and screened at the 2008 Rome International Film Festival, the 2008 Big Easy Short Film Festival, the 2009 Crossroads Film Festival, the 2009 Florida Film Festival and the 2009 Shorts Film Festival. Warwick is the originating producer and script editor of the feature film Last Man which will be directed by co-writer, co-producer and acclaimed film-maker Fred Schepisi.

As an actor Warwick’s film credits include Wolverine, Superman, Stealth, and The Great Raid as well as Australian productions: The Battle Of Long Tan, The Pact, After The Rain, The Blackwater Trail andmost recently Beneath Hill 60 in which he was also the military advisor.Warwick’s television dramas and tele-movie credits include All Saints, Small Claims, Water Rats, Tales of the South Seas, Big Sky, Sea Patrol, Rescue Special Ops, Rake and most recently Carlotta for the ABC and the The Killing Field for the 7 Seven Network.

Warwick’s stage credits include productions with theatre companies La Boite, QPAC, Seymour Productions, Marion Street, Theatre South and Pork Chop Productions.Warwick played the role of Gerard in the critically acclaimed Pork Chopproduction of Brilliant Monkey at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, which was nominated for Best Independent Production in the 2008 Sydney Theatre Awards, and which had a successful national tour in 2009. Warwick is currently adapting Brilliant Monkey into a feature film screenplay, which he intends as his feature directorial debut. In early 2014 Warwick appeared in the Sydney Theatre Production of The Long Way Home, which also had a successful national tour.

Before studying acting at the University of Southern Queensland, Warwick completed a Bachelor of Applied Science at Queensland Institute of Technology.

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