Jarod Green

Jarod Green (born 23 May 1981) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and animator most notable for his work on the short film Beached Whale and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television series Beached Az. Together with actor Nicholas Boshier, Green is also the creator of the online fictional character Trent from Punchy.

Green was born in Sydney and attended high school at Barker College, an independent school in Hornsby, a North Shore suburb of Sydney. He is a graduate of Sydney's Macquarie University (Bachelor of Media) in 2002, the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Master of Arts in Directing) in 2004, and of Brown University, where he was awarded a doctorate (Modern Culture and Media) in 2007.

Whilst studying, Green worked on several films both domestically and abroad, including Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004), the New South Wales Film and Television Office Young Filmmaker's Fund short film In The Middle (2005), Elizabeth - The Golden Age (2007) and Avatar (2009).

In April 2008, he directed and animated the short film Beached Whale (performed by his high school friends Anthony MacFarlane and Nick Boshier), which became a popular social media video in Australia and New Zealand.

In 2009, he founded the creative think-tank company The Handsomity Institute Pty Ltd which created and produced the television series Beached Az, airing in September of that year on ABC.

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