Rob is writing entertaining, cinematic Aussie stories with global appeal that are market-friendly and set in diverse communities about interesting people who are often overlooked.
Screenwriter - Rob Draper
Rob has written ARIA chart-hitting songs, he's acted in Aussie TV shows like Neighbours and Blue Heelers, he toured with folk music legend, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and once he accidentally stole fifty pounds off Dennis Hopper.
After representing Australia at the Americana Festival Nashville in 2014, Rob signed up for 5 years writing hits on Music Row for the likes of Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and Jasmine Rae at Starstruck Entertainment in Nashville. After a near-death experience in 2016, which saw him in physical rehab for almost two years, Rob stayed in Australia developing a Beatles time-travel movie for Sony Pictures.
Early on in his screenwriting career, Rob scored a paid writing gig on an Aussie road-movie remake of The Wizard of Oz, he wrote the Beatles time-travel movie, studied Prof. Screenwriting at RMIT, and he wrote a show about his Dad and some Ford rebels in Broadmeadows who made Bathurst history. That show, Blue Print, is now deep in development with Jason Byrne and Tony Rogers. He has also sold a feature screenplay about a pivotal moment at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
Rob is also Director of Tractor Beam Films with Tony Rogers, Lisa Fineberg and Phil Spencer.
PROJECTS
In various stages of development
BLUE PRINT is a drama set in the early 1980s when the Australian Touring Car Championship was all thrills and V8 intensity. In a world of cut-throat competition, we follow the hidden characters behind Ford’s explosive comeback against ’The King of the Mountain'. It reflects the suburban energy of Don’s Party and the working class sincerity of The Castle, with the cinematic experience of Ford vs Ferrari.
TAMWORTH
‘Tamworth’ is an entertaining road-movie about an inner city rapper stuck in rural Australia who reinvents herself as a country music singer and gains success playing music she once hated.
COLLINGWOOD
This is an out of the ordinary sci-fi movie set in Melbourne, 2090, about a plumber, a clone, a dole bludger and a robot. To be Directed by Tony Rogers.
