Named one of Inside Films ‘Rising Stars’, Imogen McCluskey is an award-winning filmmaker based between Sydney, LA and London.
Imogen’s debut feature film SUBURBAN WILDLIFE was runner-up for the Audience Award at Sydney Film Festival in 2019, screened at Taormina Film Festival in Sicily and Cinequest Film Festival in California, and she was honored with the Debut Director Award at the London Australian Film Festival. Her second feature NUGGET IS DEAD was produced by Easy Tiger Productions for Stan Australia and CBS Studios in the US, to be released Christmas 2024.
In 2022, Imogen directed all 10 episodes of SOUNDTRACK TO OUR TEENAGE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE for the ABC, receiving a nomination from the Australian Directors Guild Awards. Her short film ATOMIC LOVE screened at the 2020 BFI Flare Festival, OUTFEST LA, Edmonton IFF, Encounters FF, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and Short of the Week. Imogen’s web series LOVE BUG was funded by Screen Australia and has over 4 million views on TikTok, receiving nominations from the Australian Directors Guild and Australian Writers Guild Awards.
Imogen graduated from AFTRS in 2017 receiving the prestigious EU award, and earned a Masters of Directing in 2023 from the American Film Institute with support from Screen Australia, the Sloan Foundation, and the American Australian Association.
In 2024, Imogen was selected to join the Screen Australian Talent NYC delegation to attend the Australian International Screen Forum in New York City. She is working across a slate of projects including the Screen Australia supported comedy feature film ‘Dial-Up’, and a feature adaptation of her award-winning short film ‘Atomic Love’.
She is a dual UK/Australian citizen with the right to work in the US.
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