Adrian Goodman

Adrian Goodman is the writer, director and editor of the feature film Wakey Wakey, which was named by Film Bizarro as one of the world's 30 best movies of 2012. The film has earned him an Australian Directors Guild Award (Best Direction in a Student Film), among other accolades. Goodman has also made various short films, which have screened in Russia, the United States and Australia. His debut short film The Happy High Laughter Club won 'Best Dramatic Short' at the Staten Island Film Festival in New York, as well as a distribution deal with Time Warner Cable across North America. The film has since been granted an honourable mention at the SoCal Film Festival in California. His follow-up short, Migraine and Michael: A Love Story, premiered at the Kansk International Video Festival in Russia, and has also screened at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Initially coming from a background in theatre and music, Goodman wrote and directed the play Beast of Burden (2003), and was musical director for Chris Thompson's Shady Characters (2004). A past graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Goodman completed his Masters of Filmmaking at Melbourne's prestigious Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).