Sarah Watt
Film director
1958 – 2011
Who was Sarah Watt?
Sarah Ann Watt was an Australian film director.
Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television at the Swinburne Film and Television School, Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect the style of future work. In 1995, she directed a short film, Small Treasures, which won Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival. In 2000, she made a program for the SBS series Swim Between the Flags called "Local Dive". It was made concurrently with another project that she was directing called "The Way of the Birds" based on the 1996 book of the same name by author Meme McDonald. She received the Australian Film Institute's award for Best Director for her 2005 film Look Both Ways.
Watt returned to the VCA School of Film and Television to teach animation and was to assist in the development of many animators including Academy Award winner Adam Eliot in 1996. Watt was instrumental in the development of scripts for all of her students, but left the School to further develop her own projects, returning on occasion as a script and final production assessor.
During the post-production of Look Both Ways, Watt was diagnosed with cancer. Her second film My Year Without Sex was released in 2009.
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- Born
- Aug 30, 1958
Sydney - Also known as
- Saran Ann Watt
- Spouses
- William McInnes
( - 2011/11/04)
- William McInnes
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Died
- Nov 4, 2011
West Footscray
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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