AP POBJOY
AP Pobjoy is an award-winning and ADG-nominated writer-director based on unceded Gadigal Land in Sydney, Australia. AP is the creator, lead-writer and co-director of the upcoming SBS Digital Original series Homebodies, which heads into production in late 2025.
Prior, AP wrote and directed the self-shot coming-of-age series, Unerased, which follows nine trans teenagers on the brink of graduation as they navigate high school and gender over the course of one year. Produced in collaboration with Screen Australia, VicScreen, and Mashup Pictures, Unerased earned a nomination for SPA's ‘Online Series Production of The Year' for 2023.
AP also wrote and directed the television documentary, Why Did She Have To Tell The World? executive produced by Sue Maslin and in association with Film Victoria and Screen Australia, which opened the ABCTV Compass season for 2021 and went on to be nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award. The documentary later won 'Best Film' at the 2021 Mardi Gras Film Festival’s My Queer Career and was nominated for the prestigious Iris Prize.
Their debut short film starring Jana Zvedeniuk (Bump, While The Men Are Away) and Eva Rees (Nowhere Boys, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), earnt nominations at the St Kilda Film Festival, SAE ATOM Awards, and at the Setting Sun Film Festival, including Best Director and Best Drama. AP’s work went on to be recognised by The Age, Stronger Than Fiction, RUUSH Magazine, and Global Citizen, and was nominated for BBFF’s ‘Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year.’
In 2024, AP also completed a Director’s Attachment on indie feature film Sweet Milk Lake (Harvery Zielinski, Rhys Graham) and their second short film Billie & Jesse is set to premiere in late 2025.
AP was the recipient of the 2022 UNTAPPED Initiative supported by Australians in Film and Screen Australia and was mentored by Producers Valerie Stadler (Aristotle & Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe) and Andrea Sperling (Transparent, But I’m A Cheerleader). They were the Script Coordinator for the ABC Comedy Show Retrograde and Stan Original film Windcatcher and was also the recipient of the Film Victoria Screen Development Internship: a 12-month rotation working inside Film Victoria, ABC and Fremantle Media in feature and series development. They subsequently worked in-house at Aquarius Films and Unless Pictures under Screen Australia’s Enterprise Program and are currently writing their debut feature film with script editor Matthew Cormack (52 Tuesdays, The Hunting, Jimpa).
AP’s work focuses on character-driven and emotionally claustrophobic stories, exploring the intersections of gender, family, transmasculinity and queerness.
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P: +61 410 624 579
Pronouns: they/he
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