Black & White & Sex is John’s feature directorial debut following a successful career in producing.

After a degree in Anthropology & Indian Studies, John worked in production at the ABC on numerous shows including the Nature of Australia series, Police Rescue, Come in Spinner and Inspector Morse. During this period he directed his first short film, Paper Dart (St Kilda Film Festival).

On leaving the ABC he line-produced the feature films The Roly Poly Man and No Worries, co-produced Love in Limbo and Turning April, and then produced Vacant Possession (4 AFI nominations) as well as the Sydney Film Festival opener Doing Time for Patsy Cline - nominated for 10 AFI Awards, including Best Film.

Next John script-produced the first series of SeaChange before producing the popular Paperback Hero (Hugh Jackman and Claudia Karvan) and the Berlin Film Festival entrant, My Mother Frank.

He then produced Philip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence, which won Best Film at the AFI Awards in 2002.

A Man’s Gotta Do (Best Film from Oceania at the Montreal Fest) followed and he also shot and directed a companion documentary, A Director’s Gotta Do – The Producer’s Cut that screened on Channel 9.

Most recently he directed the award winning short film Mirror Mirror (Roy Billing), which screened at 27 festivals worldwide including Frameline and the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival as well as opening the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.