Julian Shaw (born 16 December 1985 in

Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...

, New Zealand) is an author, filmmaker and actor, best known for directing the 2007 film ''Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story'', a British Film Institute award-winning documentary about the life of South African political satirist

Pieter-Dirk Uys Pieter-Dirk Uys (; born 28 September 1945) is a South African performer, author, satirist, and social activist. One of his best known roles is as Evita Bezuidenhout, an Afrikaner socialite. Background and early life Uys was born in Cape Town o ...

. Shaw is the author of the novel ''Modern Odysseus'', and the creator of several short films including ''Clearing the Air''. He is the director of the 2011 feature documentary ''Cup of Dreams'', about New Zealand's national Rugby Union team the

All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ...

. Shaw also gained worldwide fame in 2011 after starring in an Australian marriage equality advertisement entitled It's Time that has reached millions of people.

International awards

*Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year Award, 2010 -

Byron Bay International Film Festival The Byron Bay Film Festival is a popular AACTA Awards accredited independent awards-based film event held in the late Australian summer at the Byron Community & Cultural Centre, in the coastal town of Byron Bay. The festival was established in ...

and Sydney International Film School *Inaugural Derek Oyston/Che Award -

British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...

London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, formerly known as the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (LLGFF), is the biggest LGBTIQ+ film festival in Europe. It takes place every spring in London, England. It began in 1986, as a season of gay and ...

, 2009 *Runner-Up:

Panorama Audience Award A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling. The word was originally coined in ...

, for ''Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story'' -

Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

, 2008 *Independent Spirit Award -

Inside Film Awards The Inside Film Awards (now known as the IF Awards) is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the Australian film industry, developed by the creators of Inside Film Magazine, Stephen Jenner and David Barda, and originally produced fo ...

, 2007 *Best Emerging Filmmaker Award - DOCNZ, 2007 *Best Documentary for ''Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story'' - Documentary Edge Festival, 2007

Filmography

Actor

*Stoner,

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2015 *" It's Time",

GetUp! GetUp! is an independent progressive Australian political activist group. It was launched in August 2005 to encourage Internet activism in Australia, though it has increasingly engaged in offline community organising. GetUp is an independent ...

for Australia Ad, 2011 * Christopher, Love Gone Wrong,

Deadly Women ''Deadly Women'' is an American true crime documentary television series produced by Beyond International Group and airing on the Investigation Discovery (ID) network. The series focuses on murders committed by women. It is hosted by former ...

Director

*''Cup of Dreams'', 2011 *''Clearing the Air'', 2010 *''All Blacks Don't Cry'', 2010 *''Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story'', 2007

Performer

*"Love Story", a 2011

viral video A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.Lu Jiang, Yajie Miao, Yi Yang, ZhenZhong Lan, Alexander Haupt ...

in support of marriage equality by GetUp! Australia, as Paul *''All Blacks Don't Cry'', 2010, as John Kirwan

Bibliography

*Modern Odysseus, 2009 -

References

External links

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