Darran Scott is an Australian film and television writer and producer. He began working as an actor as a young teenager and appeared in such Australian TV shows as Special Squad

Special Squad

Special Squad was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network in 1984.The series focused on an elite division of the Victoria Police, which handled crimes either too sensitive or specialist for regular squads. The Special Squad was headed by Det. Insp. Don...

, Carson's Law

Carson's Law

Carson's Law is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1983 and 1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson...

, The Henderson Kids

The Henderson Kids

The Henderson Kids was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series....

 and the World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 mini-series Anzacs

Anzacs

Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian mini series set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder...

. And most recently, Underbelly, and several Australian TV Commercials and TV series.

He has written and produced and performed in various films and television shows and appears as a TV presenter and on regional radio.

He is Producer and owner of Filmpoets Studios, Melbourne, Australia, which has produced several documenataries, short films and television series and received several awards, including an ACMA 'Antenna Award' for Most Outstanding Sports Program for 2008's 'The Surfers Life' and 2nd prize in the Australian Film Institute's 'Reinventing The Reel' Festival for 'Another Ordinary Day' (2001). The 2003 film 'A Wold of His Own'. In 2011 he will be directing and producing a Christian themed film for US Audiences, The Playbook.

He is now Managing Director of Shearwater Entertainment. An Australian based film and television production and distribution company created in June 2009.

In 1985, he was the target of an attempted kidnapping while backpacking through the US state of Washington, managing to escape by jumping from the moving vehicle. He sustained minor injuries.

Scott captured worldwide attention after applying to Cricket Australia in late 2003 for the Test Captaincy to replace Steve Waugh

Steve Waugh

Stephen Rodger "Steve" Waugh, AO is a former Australian cricketer and fraternal twin of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman, he was also a successful medium-pace bowler...

 upon his retirement, citing his credentials as "my team mates describe my bowling as 'nippy'". The application and resultant reply from CEO James Sutherland

James Sutherland (cricketer)

James Alexander Sutherland is a former Australian first-class cricketer and current cricket administrator...

created a national media story.

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