Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay

David Easteal

Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay
Region: Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

David Easteal is a filmmaker who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Easteal’s films have screened widely at festivals, including at Rotterdam, New York, BFI London, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mar del Plata, São Paulo Mostra, Ghent and Torino, and venues including the Lincoln Centre (as part of Art of the Real), the Barbican Centre, the Centre Pompidou (as part of Cinéma du Réel), QAGOMA (as part of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art), and TIFF Cinematheque. His first feature film, The Plains was released worldwide by MUBI in 2023.

At MacDowell, Easteal developed a feature film screenplay.

Portrait by Kate Meakin

Studios

Mixter

David Easteal worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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