Alies Sluiter is an awarded screenwriter and director. In 2022, she directed an episode of hit comedy series AFTERTASTE (ABC), starring Erik Thomson, Rachel Griffiths and Natalie Abbott.

She has worked as a script producer for companies including Stan, SBS, Closer Productions and Highview Productions, and is a BAFTA Newcomer, Berlinale Talent and General Sir John Monash Scholar.

Her short film, AYAAN (2020) was longlisted for an Academy Award® and screened worldwide, winning 30+ awards including an Australian Directors Guild (ADG) Award, Best International Short at Show Me Shorts Festival (NZ), Best Short Fiction and Best Tertiary Fiction at the ATOM Awards and Best Short Film at CinefestOZ, amongst many others.

AYAAN was also nominated for an Australian Writers’ Guild (AWGIE) Award, a Dendy Award at Sydney Film Festival and the Grand Prix at Tampere International Film Festival.

Her second short, MYTH (2022) was selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival, received an ADG Award nomination for Best Direction in a Short Film, and won the Rebel 8 Outstanding Emerging Female Director Award at Flickerfest.

Her most recent short, BOY ON FIRE (2023) won the LUMIX Award for Best Australian Short Film (Academy® Qualifying) at Flickerfest.

Prior to becoming a director, Alies worked as a violinist and film and TV composer, performing in over 55 countries with artists including Nitin Sawhney, Sylvie Guillem, Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Antony Gormley.

She also musically directed Laurence Olivier Award and Time Out Critics Award (UK) nominated productions.

She holds an MFA (with honours) from Columbia University, where she studied on a full scholarship and was awarded the university’s top screenwriting prize – the Ezra Litwak Award, as well as the School of the Arts Arthur J. Memorial Prize and a Screenwriting Fellowship.

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