Rate My Professor Sandy Cameron

Sandy Cameron is a Lecturer in the School of Communication, Media and Journalism, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. He is an Australian Writers' Guild award-winning screenwriter and feature film producer. His work has screened in official selection at Sundance, Toronto, Venice, and South by Southwest film festivals, streamed on Netflix, Stan, and Binge, and been remade internationally. Cameron has been nominated for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award. A company he co-founded has been nominated for Production Company of the Year by Screen Producers Australia. He has worked extensively in screen funding agency roles and as a freelance film journalist. He currently teaches the Graduate Certificate of Film and Television at UniSA, an industry collaboration with NBCUniversal International Studio-owned production company Matchbox Pictures.

In his academic capacity, Cameron coordinates and delivers several postgraduate courses at Adelaide University on the Magill campus, including MDIA5005 Screen Content Project 1, which runs from 23 February to 13 April and 4 May to 1 June on Mondays from 2:10pm to 6pm in Building B, B2-52B. This course develops industry-level knowledge, skills, and competencies for creating high-quality screen content, covering development foundations, writers’ rooms, development materials such as treatments and bibles, story packaging, pitching practices, and industry readiness. He also coordinates MDIA5006 Screen Content Project 2, MDIA5004 The Screen Industry: Business, Creativity, and Content, offered Mondays from 9:10am to 1pm, and COMM1078 Introduction to Screen Sound in 2025. Additionally, he instructs in MDIA1003 Cinema of Hollywood. Cameron is pursuing a part-time Doctorate since 2022, supervised principally by Dr Saige Walton, on the topic 'The Ghost Writer in the Machine: Exploring a new model for Australian screenwriting development and education through the use of Artificial Intelligence tools.' He is available for media comment.