David Jowsey has had an extensive career as a film and television producer. He has been nominated for three AACTA Awards for Best Picture (Mystery Road, 2013; Satellite Boy, 2012; Goldstone, 2015). In 2009 David Jowsey formed BUNYA Productions with award winning filmmaker Ivan Sen. BUNYA Productions’ first film was Ivan Sen’s experimental digital feature Dreamland (2009). David is also Producer of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival selected feature film Mad Bastards (2010) directed by Brendan Fletcher. The same year David produced Toomelah (2011), which focuses on a 10 year old boy growing up in an isolated Aboriginal community, with Sen directing again. The film was selected for the Cannes Film Festival 2011 in Un Certain Regard and won the Cultural Diversity Award under the Patronage of UNESCO from APSA. David also produced the Toronto Film Festival 2012 selection, Satellite Boy, directed by Catriona McKenzie. Satellite Boy received a Special Mention at its European Premiere in the Generation section of the 2013 Berlin Film Festival.
In 2016 David produced Jasper Jones based on the best selling novel and directed by Rachel Perkins. He is currently producing the television adaptation of Mystery Road for ABC TV based on the APSA-nominated film of the same name, and the documentary-drama series Blue Water Empire. David is also Executive Producer of the feature documentaries Sanctuary and Beautiful Minds: The Agents of Change.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
