Lucas Taylor (screenwriter)

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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.

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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. [1]

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. [2]

In 2017 he was awarded the second Greg Coote Scholarship, [a] worth A$25,000, which enabled him to work with FremantleMedia production partners overseas, which include UFA in Germany; Wildside in Italy; Miso Film in Scandinavia; Kwai in France, and Euston Films in the UK. [3] [4]

Taylor wrote and directed Inside Manus , a VR documentary about asylum seekers in Manus offshore detention centre commissioned by SBS VR. [5] 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. [2]

He wrote the script for Eleven Eleven, which had its world premiere at SXSW in 2019, and was nominated for an AWGIE in the same year. [2]

Taylor's television work includes Harrow (TV series); Vikings: Athelstan's Journal ; Secrets and Lies; Texas Rising: The Lost Soldier; and The Strange Calls . [2]

Black Snow, a six-part crime drama series filmed in North Queensland, was created by Taylor. [6] [7] 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. [8] Ziggy Ramo collaborated with composer Jed Palmer to produce all of the music for the show, and also appears in it. [9] 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. [10] [11] It screened on Sundance Now in the U.S. from 2022. [6]

Taylor also wrote the six-part series In Limbo , starring Ryan Corr and Bob Morley, which aired on ABC Television in 2023. [12]

Recognition and awards

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Supported by Screen Queensland, Australians in Film, the Queensland Writers Centre, and FremantleMedia... named for one of Australia’s most prolific industry figures. Greg Coote ran LA-based Larrikin Entertainment with David Calvert-Jones; he was a producer and financier of theatrical movies, television programs and digital entertainment content." [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Film school delegation in the spotlight at SXSW Festival". Griffith News. Griffith University. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Lucas Taylor". Troyeur. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "Brisbane-based screenwriter and director Lucas Taylor named as the 2017 Greg Coote Scholarship recipient". Screen Queensland. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "'Vikings' writer-director Lucas Taylor awarded Greg Coote Scholarship". IF Magazine . 12 April 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  5. ↑ Inside Manus at IMDb
  6. 1 2 "Cameras to roll in North Queensland on new Stan Original series Black Snow". FilmInk . 23 March 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  7. ↑ Black Snow at IMDb
  8. ↑ Pickard, Michael (10 January 2023). "Let it Snow". Drama Quarterly. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  9. ↑ Disalvo, Tom (14 December 2022). "Ziggy Ramo to make screen debut in Stan series 'Black Snow' premiering New Year's Day". NME . Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  10. ↑ L'Barrow, Nick (28 December 2022). "Interview – 'Black Snow' creator Lucas Taylor and director Sian Davies at the Blue Carpet premiere!". Novastream. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  11. ↑ Gray, Peter (31 December 2022). "Interview: The cast and creators of Stan's thrilling new Australian crime series Black Snow". The AU Review. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  12. ↑ In Limbo at IMDb
  13. ↑ "Dystopic thriller Kin wins top Australian sci-fi screenwriting award". Australian Writers' Guild. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  14. ↑ "Call for entries for AWG's John Hinde Award". IF Magazine. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
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