David Evans David Evans i(A146479 works by)
Gender: Male
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Television script-writer and director, who specialises in animated children's television.

As a script-writer, David Evans's earliest work was in television documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). In 1990, he was working as a producer, director, and script-writer on Indelible Evidence, a forensic science series co-produced by the ABC, the BBC, TVNZ, and West German Television: he was responsible for episodes on car insurance broker John Fairley and the 1980 Woolworths Bombing extortion. In 1991, he co-wrote (with director Christine Sammers) One Australia?, a study of racism and mutliculturalism in Australia, for the ABC.

Evans soon turned to children's entertainment, however. By the mid-1990s, he was writing scripts for Bananas in Pyjamas, The Ferals, and Feral TV. Since 2000, however, he has concentrated on scripts for animated programs, including Yoram Gross's Tabaluga (2001) and Fairy Tale Police Department (2002); Flying Bark Productions' Life Rules (2007), Staines Down Drains (2007), Zigby (2009), and The Woodlies (2012); SLR Productions' Guess How Much I Love You? (2012) and Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist (2008); and ASE Studios' forthcoming Vicky the Viking (2013).

Evans's work as a director frequently overlaps with his work as a script-writer. But, in addition to directing episodes of The Ferals, Feral TV, Tabaluga, and Fairy Tale Police Department, he has also directed episodes of both live-action television and animation, including G. P. (1991-1995), Embassy (1992), Seaside Hotel (2003), Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Balloon Adventure (2004), Deadly (2006), and Life Rules (2007).

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form y separately published work icon The Deep ( dir. Trent Carlson ) Australia Canada : Nerd Corps Entertainment A Stark Production , 2015-2019 7810230 2015 series - publisher film/TV science fiction children's

Animated series about the Nekton family, deep-sea explorers.

For a full list of episodes and authors, see Film Details.

2017 nominated AWGIE Awards Television Award Children's Television – C Classification For two episodes: 'Beware the Sentinels' (Thomas Duncan-Watt) and 'Finn Comes Aboard' (Rachel Spratt).
2016 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Children's Television Series
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