
WRITER/DIRECTOR - ROB DRAPER
Rob has written ARIA chart hitting songs, acted in Aussie TV shows like Neighbours and Blue Heelers, toured with folk music legend, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and once he accidentally stole fifty pounds off Dennis Hopper. After representing Australia at the Americana Fest in Nashville in 2014, he signed up for 5 years writing hits on Music Row for the likes of Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert at Starstruck Entertainment, Nashville.
After a near-death experience, pre-COVID, which saw him in physical rehab for almost two years, he decided to take a leap of faith and pursue his original love, movies. He had studied Prof. Screenwriting at RMIT after-all, their youngest admission at the time. Rob wiped out his overheads, stayed in Australia and learned how to write.
Early on he scored a paid writing gig on an Aussie road-movie remake of The Wizard of Oz, he wrote a Beatles time-travel movie for Sony and cornered developed a Drama-Series about his dad and some Ford rebels who made history - currently with Emmy Award winners, Northern Pictures.
In 2024 he was Shortlisted for the Australian Writer’s Guild ‘Emerging Writer’s Award’ and sold a script about the Tamworth country music festival, started TB Films with Phil Spencer, Lisa Fineberg and Tony Rogers, and directed a short film selected for the Flickerfest 2025 national tour. He was also EP on the feature film, “How To Talk Australian’s”, directed by Tony Rogers and Produced by Jason Byrne.