Gregory J. Read

Read started his film career writing, directing, producing and editing documentaries: Spirits of the Carnival, Tides of Passage, and Photographers of Australia: Dupain, Sievers, Moore.

In 2006 Read wrote and directed Like Minds starring Eddie Redmayne (in his feature film début[1]), Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette and Richard Roxburough.

[2] Although Like Minds was Read's feature film directorial début, he had assisted in the production of many low-budget Australian features and directed, produced, and/or art directed television commercials and music videos for performers such as Kate Ceberano, Iva Davis, Grant McLennon, and the Divinyls.

In 2008 he established Aerial Film Australia, a specialist aerial company with credits on films such as Unbroken, San Andreas, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Alien: Covenant, Lion, The Meg, The Shallows, Peter Rabbit, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Aquaman, and Spiderhead.

Read wrote, shot and directed the Australian Writers' Guild (AWGIE) award-winning (2020) feature documentary, Own The Sky chronicling David Mayman's journey in the development of the world's first real jetpack.