Walter McIntosh
Walter has recently completed production of Lessons from Joan, the story of the creation of Oh, What a Lovely War!, a landmark theatrical work, by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop in 1963. He researched, directed and edited Lessons from Joan over a period of four years.
In 2012, Walter made the short documentary Khmer Soap, about Khmer Mekong Films, a television production company in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Walter’s first one-hour documentary, Projecting the Body (2008), tells the story of filmmaker and photographer Stephen Cummins. Projecting the Body screened in numerous international film festivals, including the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival at the BFI Southbank cinema in 2010, at which it was nominated for the Derek Oyston Equality Award. Projecting the Body also won best documentary at the 2010 Queer Fruit Film Festival (Byron Bay).
In 2006, Walter co-directed the documentary Darkness Over Paradise, which tells the story of the civil war in Sierra Leone.
Two documentaries Walter has edited, The Prodigal Son and Sentences, have won best short documentary at the IF (Inside Film) Awards. Walter has edited video backgrounds for the acclaimed photographer and performance artist William Yang and performed additional editing on Janet Merewether’s Reindeer In My Saami Heart (2015), which was nominated in the categories of Best Australian Documentary and Best Indigenous Resource at the 2015 ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards.
Walter holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Film Studies from the University of Sydney and teaches editing at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and the Academy of Film, Theatre and Television (AFTT) in Sydney.
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Director photo by Chris Pavlich.
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