Wayne Groom

Wayne Groom is the principal of the independent film production company Australian International Pictures Pty Ltd He is the ProducerWriterDirector of the feature film Maslin Beach 1996 the telemovie Summer of Love 2001 and the television documentaries Tomorrows Sun 1999 and Runnning on Sunshine 2004 Wayne is based in Adelaide South Australia He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1972 with a Bachelor of Engineering Civil and was the cowinner of the Institute of Engineers prestigious Parsons Prize He entered the film industry in 1979 and formed his own production company soon after financing and producing South Australias first independent feature film Centrespread in conjunction with Greg Lynch Film Distributors This film was one of the first Australian films shot on Super 16 The cinematographer was Geoff Simpson Fried Green Tomatoes Oscar Lucinda Other feature films and television dramas produced by Groom include The Dreaming Dir Mario Andreacchio Strangers Dir Craig Lahiff Pals Dir Mario Andreacchio Point of Departure Dir Kathryn Millard In 1991 and 1992 Groom studied comedy and screenwriting in Los Angeles at UCLA Ext He also took acting classes with renown dramatist Jeff Corey Maslin Beach was the first feature he wrote and directed It was made on the famous South Australian nude beach It has subsequently been screened on the Nine Network in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK It gained cult status in Australia after being released on video and is now available on DVD in the USAThe New York Times called it a tender romantic comedy His next film Tomorrows Sun a television documentary on the 1999 World Solar Challenge made in conjunction with Panorama Australia was screened on the Ten Network in Australia and Discovery Channel AsiaPacific It was purchased for world distribution by ZDF in Germany The following project the moody art film Summer of Love was the first Australian telemovie shot on High Definition It was screened in 2001 on the Nine Network In 2004 he completed a new international television documentary Running on Sunshine with investment from the Film Finance Corporation the South Australian Film Corporation Australian Major Events and the Seven Network