Lucy Gaffy

Director

Lucy Gaffy is an award-winning filmmaker who, over the last decade, has worked across a range of productions and media, including short films, documentaries, episodic television, narrative podcasts and most recently, feature films.

Most recently, Lucy directed the opening story “We the Spiders” for the anthology feature film, Here Out West (Co-Curious/ ABC, 2021) alongside directors Ana Kokkinos, Leah Purcell, Julie Kalceff and Fadia Abboud. The film had its World Premiere at the 2021 Sydney Film festival and was met with unwavering acclaim, and has been nominated for a 2022 AACTA Award for Best Film. Lucy’s recent television credits include episodes of the drama series, Amazing Grace, for Playmaker and the Nine Network; three episodes of the ABC/Netflix series, The Unlisted (Aquarius Films, 2019) and prior to this, multiple episodes across series three and four of the enormously successful Nine Network series Doctor Doctor (Easy Tiger, 2017-18).

Lucy has received numerous awards and scholarships throughout her career. In 2009, she was the recipient of the European Union Travel Scholarship to travel to the DocPoint Festival in Helsinki to show her Documentary Century Witness and in 2010 was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild award and received an AFI nomination for her film The Love Song of Iskra Prufrock which subsequently screened at over 60 International Festivals. Lucy was a recipient of the 2012 Screen NSW Emerging Filmmakers Fund with which she made her award-winning short The Gift. Lucy received her second Directors Guild nomination for her short film The Fence which subsequently premiered at the prestigious Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.

Lucy was awarded Hot Shots funding through Screen Australia for her proof-of-concept short Dream Baby which she completed in 2015 and in 2016 was awarded the ADG Attachment on the CJZ Production of the Channel Nine Miniseries Bond. Dream Baby had its World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2016 and went on to win the 2016 AACTA Award for Best Short Film. With Dream Baby Lucy was also nominated for her third Australian Directors Guild Award, won Best Film at Heart of Gold Festival and won Best Direction at the 2017 Flickerfest Short Film Festival.

In 2017 Lucy received the Screen Australia Talent + Development Endowment for a three-month placement as an observing Director at the Juilliard School of Drama in New York before being selected by the ADG & Essential Media to direct an episode of the Nine Network series Doctor Doctor through the Shadow Directing Program. The producers were so impressed by Lucy that she went on to Direct an additional 4 Episodes of the following third Series (2018). The following year Lucy was selected for the prestigious Talent Campus at the 2018 Berlinale Film Festival where she was able to further establish her position as a future leader in the Australian film industry.

In addition to her active directing work, Lucy is also developing several projects for the screen and other media. Most recenlty, Lucy was the set-up director for Fremantle/ Stan’s Totally Completely Fine.

For enquiries regarding Lucy Gaffy, please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199.