Sarah Ann Watt (30 August 1958 â€" 4 November 2011) was an Australian
film director, writer and animator.Born in Sydney, Watt completed a
Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation) at the Swinburne
Film and Television School (now Victorian College of the Arts),
Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect
the style of future work. In 1995, she directed a short film, Small
Treasures, which won Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival. In
2000, she made a program for the SBS series Swim Between the Flags
called "Local Dive". It was made concurrently with another project
that she was directing called "The Way of the Birds" based on the 1996
book of the same name by author Meme McDonald. She received the
Australian Film Institute's award for Best Director for her 2005 film
Look Both Ways.Watt returned to the Victorian College of the Arts
School of Film and Television to teach animation and was to assist in
the development of many animators including Academy Award winner Adam
Eliot in 1996. Watt was instrumental in the development of scripts for
all of her students, but left the School to further develop her own
projects, returning on occasion as a script and final production
assessor.
film director, writer and animator.Born in Sydney, Watt completed a
Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation) at the Swinburne
Film and Television School (now Victorian College of the Arts),
Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect
the style of future work. In 1995, she directed a short film, Small
Treasures, which won Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival. In
2000, she made a program for the SBS series Swim Between the Flags
called "Local Dive". It was made concurrently with another project
that she was directing called "The Way of the Birds" based on the 1996
book of the same name by author Meme McDonald. She received the
Australian Film Institute's award for Best Director for her 2005 film
Look Both Ways.Watt returned to the Victorian College of the Arts
School of Film and Television to teach animation and was to assist in
the development of many animators including Academy Award winner Adam
Eliot in 1996. Watt was instrumental in the development of scripts for
all of her students, but left the School to further develop her own
projects, returning on occasion as a script and final production
assessor.
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