Julian Shaw is an author, filmmaker and actor, best known for directing the 2007 film Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story, a British Film Institute award

British Film Institute

The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...

-winning documentary about the life of South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys

Pieter-Dirk Uys

Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African satirist, active as a performer, author, and social activist. He is the son of a Calvinist Afrikaner father and Berlin-born Jewish mother and had an NG Kerk upbringing. He began his dramatic career as a serious playwright, switching to one-man revues at the...

. Shaw is the author of the novel Modern Odysseus, and the creator of several short films including Clearing the Air. He is the director of the 2011 feature documentary Cup of Dreams, about New Zealand’s national Rugby Union team the All Blacks.

International awards

• Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year Award, 2010 - Byron Bay International Film Festival
  Byron Bay Film Festival
  The Byron Bay Film Festival is an awards-based film event usually held in the late Australian Summer at the Byron Community & Cultural Centre, in the coastal town of Byron Bay....
  
   and Sydney International Film School
• Inaugural Derek Oyston/Che Award - British Film Institute
  British Film Institute
  The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
  
  's London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival takes place every spring in London, England. It began as a season of gay and lesbian films at the National Film Theatre in 1986 and 1987 under the title "Gay's Own Pictures", curated by Peter Packer of the Tyneside Cinema, and was renamed the London...
  
  , 2009
• Runner-Up: Panorama Audience Award, for Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story - Berlin International Film Festival
  Berlin International Film Festival
  The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
  
  , 2008
• Independent Spirit Award - Inside Film Awards
  Inside Film Awards
  The Inside Film Awards is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the Australian film industry, a format created by Australian Producer Andrew Dillon...
  
  , 2007
• Best Emerging Filmmaker Award - DOCNZ
  Documentary New Zealand Trust
  The Documentary New Zealand Trust is a not-for-profit charitable organization with these aims:*To promote documentary as an important form of recording what is happening in our society and as a means to build understanding and goodwill...
  
  , 2007
• Best Documentary for Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story - DOCNZ, 2007

Director

• Cup of Dreams, 2011
• Clearing the Air, 2010
• All Blacks Don't Cry, 2010
• Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story, 2007

Performer

• "Love Story", a 2011 viral video
  Viral video
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   in support of marriage equality by GetUp! Australia, as Paul
• All Blacks Don't Cry, 2010, as John Kirwan

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