Josh Wakely is a partner in the film and television production company, Grace Films. He’s a director, screenwriter and producer whose relentless creative energy has generated a range of different of projects from features (his feature film Draftin is being produced by Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures and is in the final stages of finance); to children’s series (he was a writer on the acclaimed family series Lockie Leonard which was nominated for a BAFTA). Josh’s thriller Birthright, which he will direct, goes into production in December and features key Australian talent. His debut novel A Type of Remembering is being published by Pan Macmillan. Josh’s next production is the musical feature My Mind’s Own Melody which Josh has developed with creative collaborator Daniel Johns, front man for the Australian supergroup Silverchair.
Josh & Daniel will be talking about their collaboration at TEDxSydney 2011.