Gabriel Murphy

Biography

Gabriel Murphy is a film director, writer, and producer working between Kambuwal and Gadigal Country, across the Australian continent, and overseas.

A graduate of the Masters in Documentary Filmmaking at the AFTRS, he directed ENEMY ALIEN; a short film about Australia’s WWII-era Concentration Camps, premiering at Antenna Festival, and internationally at DOCNYC. The film won the ADG Award for Best Direction in a Student Film in December 2023.

Subsequently, Murphy was mentored by legendary filmmaker WERNER HERZOG in his Filmmaking Workshop in the Azores Islands. This mentorship resulted in two new short films due for release in 2026.

Murphy is in post-production on his next non-fiction film; EDWARD FOR COUNCILLOR, about a strange city council election in Australia’s strangest city; the Gold Coast. He is also in development on his feature debut MACHINE ZONE; workshopped in UnionDoc’s 2024 Summer Development Lab in New York City.