Edward Yates(I)
- Make-Up Department
- Special Effects
- Director
Edward Yates was born in Pinjarra in Western Australia in 1976. The son of farm workers who moved around Australia working on sheep and cattle stations meant that his earliest memories are of vast open spaces and a transient existence. After his family finally settled in Victoria he spent most of his childhood in a tiny country town where he roamed and created imaginary worlds. Wanting to become a writer he left for Melbourne to undertake an arts degree at university and went on to complete a PhD in 2010. For many years he wrote film and television reviews, magazine articles and fiction. During this time he also became involved in working on short films. Following the death of his mother saw him change direction and pursue something that he had always wanted to do as a kid: a career in special effects and prosthetic make-up which saw him working on a number of big budget Australian and US productions. Realising that this was only ever going to be half of the picture Edward wrote and co-directed with his partner Alana Auden their first short film, a horror comedy called 'Knit of the Dead' that they filmed in 2018 and completed in 2021. Following their enjoyment and success with their first short film the couple made a second horror thriller short in 2022 called 'FEIRG'. Then in 2024 they produced a third short film, drawn yet again to horror comedy, this time titled 'BUT'.