Travis Akbar

On Friday of Week 3 we had screenwriter Travis Akbar give a workshop to 16 of our students from Years 8-11 where he talked about his process and the cinema industry. Travis is an Indigenous man with Wongatha heritage. He has written creatively his whole life, but, with no idea where to take it, writing took a back seat for quite some time. After getting the opportunity to write film reviews, that spark for writing returned. His favourite genres revolve around action, sci-fi, thriller, comedy, western, horror and fantasy. He also loves a good b-grade creature feature. Travis wants to include social issues and injustice in his screenplays and aims to bring these themes to the big-screen.

Nic Tubb - Science /Maths Teacher