David Caesar

{{Short description|Australian film director}}

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David Caesar (born 1963) is an Australian television and film director and writer.{{cite web|url=http://aso.gov.au/people/David_Caesar/screenography/|title=David Caesar Screenography|work=Australian Screen|publisher=National Film and Sound Archive |accessdate=11 March 2010}} He grew up in Turlinjah on the south coast of NSW and attended school in nearby Moruya where he was school captain in his senior year.

Caesar graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 1987.{{cite web|url=http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/awards-shortlists/script-writing-award/46?task=view|title=David Caesar – Prime Mover|work=2010 NSW Premier's Literary Awards|publisher=Arts NSW|accessdate=11 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525045405/http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/awards-shortlists/script-writing-award/46?task=view|archive-date=25 May 2009|url-status=dead}}{{cite interview |last=|first=|subject=David Caesar |subject-link=David Caesar |last2= |first2= |subject2= |last3= |first3= |subject3= |last4= |subject4= |interviewer=Ray Argall |title=Australian Screen |url= http://aso.gov.au/people/David_Caesar/interview/|publisher=National Film and Sound Archive|location=Sydney |date=13 June 2009 |accessdate=11 March 2010 }} He won an AWGIE and best director at Shanghai Film Festival for his film MULLET. He won a Queensland Premiers Literary award for the screenplay for PRIME MOVER in 2008.