Davie Paterson is an Australian born writer/director with a focus on drama, crime, sci-fi and black comedy. He started his writing career as a youngster on a writing assignment with mentor John Collee (Happy Feet) for eOne Films Australia and has written on several features and adaptations since, including ARCADIA film 2067 (starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ryan Kwanten) and Bronte Pictures’ Take My Hand (starring Rahda Mitchell). He’s a two-time winner of the UK Film Festival (Script Competition, in 2016 and 2020, respectively), with recent wins at Shore Scripts (Grand Prize Winner) and DIFF, earning him a seat at the 2023 Oscars Gala. He is currently in development on several projects.

He’s also a treatment and script writer for large and small scale online campaigns and TVCs for clients including Google, YouTube, Land Rover + Wallabies Rugby Australia, Optus + XXI Commonwealth Games, COLLIDER, Wotif, Westfield, and others.

He is represented by RGM for Australian work and he hopes you think someone else wrote this, but they didn’t.

Contact: davepatersonemail@gmail.com