Biography

A graduate of the National Film School (AFTRS), Noakes's innovative and subversive voice has won him numerous awards and catapulted him into the international scene with early representation from PrettyBird (US & UK), Partizan (France), Stink (Germany) and Scoundrel (Australia and New Zealand).

From his award winning short films "Julian" (2007), "Mongrel's Creed" (2010) and "Nursery Rhymes" (2018), which recently won him the 2018 Rouben Mamoulian award for Best Director at Sydney Film Festival, to Hornbach, Australia Day Lamb, and the notorious Doritos 'Finger Cleaner,' Noakes's creations have screened around the world, earned him a Gold Ciclope award for best Direction, a Gold Clio, Gold Epica, DWA (Deutsche Werbefilmakademie) best direction, features on USA today, Nowness, Vimeo Staff Picks, Wall Street Journal, AdWeek, Vice, millions of online views and (his personal favourite) the front page of Reddit.

In 2017, Noakes launched original screen content production company Studio Goono with long time collaborators Lucy Gaffy and Will Goodfellow.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Noakes