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CLayton Jacobson
Executive Director and Creative Icon
Clayton is an award-winning Producer / Director / Writer / Actor whose experience spans across commercials, documentaries, online content, music videos and feature film.
Clayton graduated from the prestigious Swinburne film and Tv school with a Bachelor Of Arts degree in 1984. He has been making his mark in the Australian film industry ever since. His debut comedy feature KENNY was a highly acclaimed box office hit winning the 2006 IF Awards for Best Feature Film and Best Script, and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Original Screenplay. It also holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating. George Miller recently announced that KENNY was one of his four favourite Australian feature films.
Clayton’s follow up Feature Black Comedy BROTHERS’ NEST has also experienced world-wide festival award acclaim.
Clayton is held in high regard for his distinct directorial style and commitment to feature film, television and the world of branded entertainment.
Clayton helmed two episodes of the critically acclaimed Comedy/ Drama series MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES, ABC’s comedy showroom episode MOONMAN starring Lawrence Mooney and most recently the 2nd Block of MR BLACK a comedy series starring Stephen Curry for the Channel Ten network.
While best known as a director, Clayton has also acted in many features, including the beloved Aussie crime film ANIMAL KINGDOM and Jane Campion’s internationally acclaimed TV series TOP OF THE LAKE – CHINA GIRL and BLUMHOUSE’S sci-fi cult film UPGRADE to name a few.
Those who have worked with Clayton know his deep love of film, style and technique filter into every detail of his inspired body of work.
Clayton was also CEO/Founder of Australia’s first end to end virtual production facility located in Melbourne’s north. Dreamscreen Australia has worked on many international and local high profile productions utilising state of the art virtual production techniques.
THE FIRES, THE CLEARING, LOVE ME, SCRUBLANDS, WHITE FEVER, HIGH COUNTRY AND LA BREA SEASONS 1&2 are just some of the productions Dreamscreen has serviced.
JASON BYNRE
Executive Director of Production
JASON BYRNE works across multi-platform content creation and has produced internationally acclaimed and award winning work in the advertising, feature film, online media, documentary and branded entertainment space. His roots in advertising however, have paved the way for what’s now considered his niche in the communications/media & advertising world.
Jason’s online content credits include ‘How to Talk Australians’ (dir. Tony Rogers, 2014) garnered over 12 million YouTube views, comedy web series ‘Little Acorns’ (2016), and period black comedy web series ‘Bruce’ (dir. Tony Rogers, 2016) starring Dave Lawson, Angus Sampson and Richard Davies.
His feature and short film credits have been nominated and awarded at the AFI, IF & SPAA awards. Feature credits include ‘One Perfect Day’ (dir. Paul Currie, 2003), Little Deaths (2004), Rats & ‘Cats. (dir Tony Rogers 2005) and Sucker’ (dir. Ben Chessell, 2015). Other known credits include 50 min. tele feature ‘The Heartbreak Tour’ (dir. Ben Chessell, 2005), ABC Documentary ‘Beyond The Backyard’, feature length ABC documentary ‘Shadow Play’ (dir. Josh Whiteman, 2009), ‘A Brilliant Genocide’ (dir, Ebony Butler), TV doco-drama Ch10 ‘Tom Wills’ (dir. Maurice Dowd, 2016. Recently Jason produced the feature film ‘Brothers Nest’ Directed by Clayton Jacobson, starring Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook, Lynette Curran and Kym Gyngell, that completed production in June 2017. Jason is the producer and creator of the documentary ‘Gatwick – The Last Chance Hotel,’ that aired on ABC in November 2018. Gatwick. Also ‘The Burning’ for Amazon Prime Video dir Eva Orner debuting in 2021at Toronto Film Festival and the SFF.