SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
An award-winning filmmaker who has crewed on TV series for Discovery, Nat Geo, SBS, Ch.9, ABC & music videos for int. artists.
Broadcast credits include ABC’s ‘Hawke: The Larrikin & The Leader’, Foxtel’s ‘Debi Marshall Investigates: Frozen Lies’, SBS’ ‘The Mosque Next Door’ and ‘Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian’ for the ABC. Joshua runs production company ‘Finesilver Media’ as a writer, producer, cinematographer, director and editor. Freelance clients include Genesys, Camus Cognac, Seiko, Adobe, Sonos, ACOSS and Jobs Australia.
Joshua’s animated films ‘Everything That Clunked Along Today…’ and ‘Cut Down The Puppet Strings’ screened at 20 festivals. ‘Clunk’ won the audience choice award at SUFF where it screened on TV. In 2020 Joshua won 3rd jury prize in the TAKE48 film competition for their film ‘The Big Sweet’. In 2025 Joshua won ‘Best Film’ at the Randwick City Council 48-hour filmmaking competition for the film ‘A Dialtone Reverie’. Joshua’s short films won ‘Best Mini Film’ at SF3 in 2021 and 2022 (Runner up). ‘Requires Review’ screened at 10 festivals and won awards such as ‘Best Short Documentary’ from the HongKong Arthouse FF and ARFF in Berlin. Joshua screened ‘Requires Review’ and ‘Bazaar Taxi’ at Dances With Films at The Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 2017 and 2018. ‘
In 2020, Joshua was accepted into a filmmaking accelerator run by Werner Herzog. The experience pivoted online and under Herzog’s guide Joshua created 3 videos. In 2024, Joshua attended Herzog’s filmmaking accelerator on La Palma and created a sci-fi documentary under the guidance of Werner Herzog and Peter Zeitlinger. In 2025 Joshua was mentored by Academy award winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi in Bologna along with 23 other filmmakers from around the world, while there Joshua directed the film ‘Perdita’ and crewed on 5 other short films.
Joshua’s debut feature documentary ‘The World’s Best Film’ screened at the Rev FF at Luna Cinemas Perth and was nominated for an audience choice award at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Joshua won a ‘Special International Filmmaker Award’ from ‘NewsFest’ & an ‘Honorary Lonely Wolf Award for outstanding achievements & exceptional contributions to independent filmmaking’ from the ‘Lonely Wolf Film Festival’ in the UK. The film received Screen Australia investment through the PEP Completion fund and won ‘Best International Documentary’ at Marina Del Rey FF and won numerous plaudits from more than 20 festivals globally. The film was broadcast on SBS between 2020-2023 and screened on SBS on-Demand.
Joshua has spoken about filmmaking on ABC Radio National, ABC Newcastle, 2SER, 3CER, RTRFM. Joshua has been a film festival director and jury member for numerous film festivals around NSW. Joshua has taught filmmaking at NIDA, Excelsia College, USYD, UON, UTS, ACIJ, NYFA Sydney & Gold Coast, SFS, SAS. Joshua has a BA COM (MAP) / LLB from UTS and is an admitted solicitor to the Supreme Court of NSW and completed a PhD in Media Arts in 2024.