Boyd Quakawoot is a South Sea Islander writer, and a man of Indigenous descent who identifies with the Yawibara people from Mackay in North Queensland.

Boyd’s debut feature, WINDCATCHER (2024), was nominated for Best Original Film at the Australian Writer’s Guild (AWGIE) Awards. The film marked Stan’s first co-commission with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) since their partnership in 2021. WINDCATCHER won Best Film at the Children Cinema Awards, and was nominated for Best Children’s Live-Action at BANFF, as well as Children’s Production of the Year at the Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards.

Boyd was a writer on the murder-mystery BLACK SNOW (Goalpost/Stan), which received a nomination for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award for Best Drama Series. Boyd also wrote on the second series of TROPPO (ABC), and season four of the sketch comedy show BLACK COMEDY (ABC), which was nominated for Best Comedy Series at the AACTA Awards.

On the IF Rising Talent List for 2024, Boyd was named as one of the writers who would “shift and lead our industry into the future”.

Boyd has been shortlisted for the Monte Miller Award, and shortlisted twice for the David Unaipon Award at the Queensland Literary Awards. He was twice highly commended for the Black & Write Fellowship with the Queensland State Library and has poetry published in the Australian Poetry Journal.

Boyd has several features in development, including a horror film and a comedy, based on his own eccentric extended family.

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