Grant Leigh Saunders

TV Writer/Director/Producer

E. grant@sonicnomad.com
P/F. + 61 2 49637910
M. 0413 266 448

Grant Saunders graduated from the AFTRS with an MA (Honours) in Film and TV Documentary in 2006 and for the past 4-5 years Saunders has been producing half hour documentaries for the ABC’s Indigenous program, Message Stick.

He has managed to win a few awards for his efforts including Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking at St Kilda Film Festival in 2007 for his debut student film B.L.A.C.K. and The John Newfong Media Prize for Best Indigenous work in 2009 for his documentary, Freakshow to Big Top. In 2010 Saunders won the scholarship for Indigenous excellence at the ABC, which allowed him to advance his craft into Editing, Directing, Producing, Camera, TV presenting and web production at AFTRS, NIDA and Dynamic Web Training.

With this new set of skills and experience along with the Out There and Deadly emerging Indigenous filmmakers fund provided by Metro Screen, Saunders has been able to co-write, direct, produce, co-edit, sound design and mix this TV Comedy Pilot called Whiteblackatcha. This latest effort from Saunders not only showcases his talent and hard work, but also his sick sense of humour.

Apart from his TV work, Saunders is a singer/songwriter and fronts a message funk band called Whitehouse who are set to release an album through MGM Distribution in April 2012.