Damon Gameau

Damon Gameau is an Australian director, producer, author and actor.
As an actor he has starred in several feature films including Rolf de Heer’s critically acclaimed The Tracker, Thunderstruck, Razzle Dazzle, Balibo opposite Anthony LaPaglia plus ‘Patrick’ with Rachel Griffiths. Damon’s performance in Balibo as journalist Greg Shackleton earned him an AFI Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He is performed in television shows such as How I Met Your Mother, Underbelly 2, Howzat, The Kettering Incident, Gallipoli, Wentworth and many others.
As a director he wrote, directed and performed the vocals for the 2011 winning Tropfest short film, Animal Beatbox.

In 2015 he released his first feature film ‘That Sugar Film’ which became the highest grossing Australian documentary across Australia and New Zealand of all time. It has received awards from across the world including the 2015 AACTA Award for Best Documentary. The accompanying book, ‘That Sugar Book’ was a best seller in Australia and has since been released in over 20 countries and 8 languages around the world.

Damon has recently completed the documentary ‘2040’ which looks at what the world could look like in 2040 if all the best solutions that exists today across environment, community, food and design were implemented right now. It has recently released on over 100 cinemas across Australia with an accompanying book called ‘2040: a handbook for the regeneration’.