Jason Christou
Jason Christou is a Melbourne-based writer/director working across film, television and online content.
Trained in screenwriting at RMIT and in directing at VCA, Jason’s screenwriting projects have been selected to the Warner Bros and The Blacklist’s ‘Aussie List’ and named as finalists for Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Jason’s short films have played at Academy-accredited film festivals worldwide including Palm Springs.
Jason was writer and script editor on Emmy-winning ABC/Netflix’s NOWHERE BOYS, and a director’s apprentice on Sony/AMC’s PREACHER. He is currently working on his feature directorial debut FEUD, and as creator/writer/director of the comedy series ARGUMENTS WITH MY MUM.
At TAFTA Jason brings his directing and screenwriting experience together to support students to better understand their own process, strengthen their actor/director relationships and to create strong characters whether you’re writing from scratch or interpreting from the page.
