Damon Gameau
Director | Producer | Future Council
Damon Gameau is an Australian film director, speaker, and author.
After 10 years as an actor in which he appeared in several feature films and television shows, including receiving an AFI nomination for best supporting actor in the film Balibo, Damon turned to directing and activism.
As a director he wrote, directed, and performed the vocals for the 2011 winning Tropfest short film, Animal Beatbox.
In 2015 he released his first feature film ‘That Sugar Film’ which became the highest grossing Australian documentary across Australia and New Zealand of all time. It has received awards from across the world including the 2015 AACTA Award for Best Documentary. The accompanying book, ‘That Sugar Book’ was a best seller in Australia and has since been released in over 20 countries and 8 languages around the world. That Sugar Guide is his latest release.
Damon then completed the documentary ‘2040’ in 2019 with an accompanying book called ‘2040: a handbook for the regeneration’. The film now sits in the top 4 highest grossing documentaries at the Australian cinema. Damon was nominated for the 2020 NSW Australian of the Year for this work.
Damon then co-founded Regen Studios with Anna Kaplan where together they work with philanthropists and NGO’s to build comprehensive impact campaigns for the films to raise money for ecological solutions and awareness in classrooms, board rooms and in Parliaments around the world.
His recent projects were ‘Regenerating Australia’ and the soon to be released ‘Future Council’ feature documentary. Damon also spoke at TEDx Sydney and his talk ‘went viral’ when posted on the global TED platform.
