Rowan Woods

Directing

Rowan Woods

Born 1959-01-01 · Sydney, Australia.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rowan Woods is an Australian film and television director, actor and screenwriter. Woods directed The Boys in 1998 and won an AFI award for best direction. His next film, Little Fish was released in September 2005 in Australia, starring Cate Blanchett. He has also directed episodes of television series including Farscape, Fireflies, Police Rescue, and Spartacus: Blood and Sand. His latest film, Winged Creatures is set to be released in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rowan Woods, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Winged Creatures poster
5.9

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.

Winged Creatures

2009

The Boys poster
6.6

Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day will not end well.

The Boys

1998

Little Fish poster
5.8

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

Little Fish

2005

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8.0

One man, one hotel, room service and a towel.

Towelhead

1997

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8.0

One man, one hotel, room service and a towel.

Towelhead

1997

The Broken Shore poster
5.6

An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.

The Broken Shore

2013

3 Acts of Murder poster
5.4

In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.

3 Acts of Murder

2009

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NR

Short film and early collaboration between rowan woods and david wenham.

Tran the Man

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NR

Short film and early collaboration between rowan woods and david wenham.

Tran the Man

Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking poster
6.3

Margaret O'Halloran is a dog trainer with a unique talent and a nose for a mystery. Now an old lady has been savaged to death, her faithful dog is the prime suspect. But Margaret smells a murderer of the two legged variety.

Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking

2000