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Born in Sydney, Australia in 1982, Dustin Feneley is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television. In 2004 and 2005, he completed the Graduate Diploma and Masters of Film and Television in Narrative Directing degrees at the VCA Film School. His short films as writer and director have screened at over fifty international film festivals. At only twenty-three years of age, his student short film Snow (2005) was officially selected for competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in the Cinéfondation category. The film?s selection made him the second youngest Australian director to have a film screen at Cannes in the festival?s history. Snow has also received the honour of being exhibited at the world famous George Pompidou Centre in Paris alongside other films by legendary filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard. Snow was awarded Best Film at the 2007 Film Fest at Falls by a highly esteemed jury of Australian film industry members including Claire Dobbin (Chair of the Melbourne International Film Festival), Antony Zeccola (Palace Films), Robyn Kershaw (Producer), and Joel Pearlman (Managing Director of Roadshow Films). His short film Apprentice has also been commercially released by Palace Films Australia as the short-before-the-feature on the popular DVD of Russian Dolls (France, 2005). Recognising his position as one of Australia?s most promising young filmmakers he was approached by the highly respected talent agency RGM Associates and is represented by RGM as a writer and director. He has directed a range of professional actors including Robert Menzies (Oscar and Lucinda, Three Dollars), Tom Budge (The Proposition, Candy) and Syd Brisbane (Boxing Day, Silent Partner). He is the winner of the 2007 Qantas Spirit of Youth Award for Moving Image, selected by veteran film director Bruce Beresford, and will undertake a mentorship with Beresford on an upcoming feature film project. In 2008 he was invited to participate in the prestigious Accelerator program of the Melbourne International Film Festival with his short film Hawker (2008). Now in its fifth year, Accelerator has firmly established itself as a showcase of pre-eminent new Australian and New Zealand shorts. For the first time featuring filmmakers from Ireland and Singapore, Accelerator has secured international recognition as an esteemed industry program. In 2008 he also worked as director?s assistant / attachment with Glendyn Ivin (2003 Palm d?Or winner for his short film Cracker Bag) on Ivin?s highly-anticipated debut feature film Last Ride, released in 2009. Feneley is currently developing his first feature film Stray.