Rowan Woods elected new President of Australian Director’s Guild

Rowan Woods has just been elected as President of the Australian Director’s Guild. He is a much-awarded working director of film and television, whose credits include his gripping first feature The Boys (1998), Little Fish (2006) starring Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, and television shows like The Kettering Incident, Rake and The Commons. Woods has also worked internationally, including on VFX-driven TV like Farscape, Spartacus and Hunters, and recently won a Children’s BAFTA for his set-up episodes of the children’s series Nowhere Boys for ABC TV. He is also the current Head of Directing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS).