Jeremy Sims

Jeremy Sims is a prolific and popular figure in Australian artistic life. He works as an actor, director and producer across theatre, film and television. He has directed 5 feature films, over 40 hours of Television and won two AACTA/AFI awards. In 2006, Jeremy produced and directed Last Train to Freo. The film received 3 AFI Award Nominations, including Best Actor. In 2010 his second feature, the WW1 epic Beneath Hill 60 was nominated for 12 AFI Awards, 5 IF Awards and 8 FCCA Awards, including Best Director and Best Film across all three awards. Jeremy was awarded the prestigious Alfred P Sloan Feature Prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival. 2014's Last Cab to Darwin, which he co-wrote, was a financial and critical hit. It received 13 AACTA (AFI) award nominations, with four cast members getting best actor nods, and Michael Caton winning for the lead role of Rex. Jeremy's last film Rams, starring Sam Neill, Michael Caton and Miranda Richardson, was released in 2020 had multiple AACTA award nominations and has become a worldwide hit. Jeremy has directed multiple seasons of the internationally successful period drama 'A Place to Call Home' as well as the 8 part Medical Rescue series RFDS for Endemol/Shine and the 6 part series Back To The Rafters for Amazon. Jeremy has four feature films and a two television projects in development, including two features in late stage development with Screen Australia, slated to shoot next year.