Tony Ayres
Producer, Writer, Director, Actor
July 16, 1961 (64 years)
Tony Ayres is a highly admired writer and director, whose work as ‘showrunner’ on programs such as ‘The Slap’ (2011), adapted from the novel by Christos Tsiolkas, ‘Bogan Pride’ (2008) starring Rebel Wilson, ‘Nowhere Boys’ (2014) and ‘Glitch’ (2015), directed by fellow VCA alumnus Emma Freeman, have put Ayres at the centre of the Australian screen industry and made him one its most influential leaders. He is a founding partner of Matchbox Pictures.
Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | |
| 2023 | Spooky Files · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Fires · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Clickbait · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Creamerie · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Stateless · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Ali's Wedding · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Seven Types of Ambiguity · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Wanted (2016) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | The Family Law · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Glitch (2015) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Maximum Choppage · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | The Slap (US) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Devil's Playground · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Old School · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Next Stop Hollywood · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Underground: The Julian Assange Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The Straits · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | |
| 2010 | LouOn Plex |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Two Men & Two Babies · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | |
| 2020 | |
| 2016 | Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows · as Screenplay |
| 2007 |
| 2014 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2011 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2002 |
| 2025 | The Idea of Australia · as Self |
| 2017 | |
| 2007 |
| 2023 |
| 2021 | Fires · as Created By |
| 2021 | Clickbait · as Created By |
| 2018 | Everyone's a Critic · as Idea |
| 2015 | Glitch (2015) · as Based On An Idea By |
| 2013 | Nowhere Boys · as Creator |
| 2004 | Thunderstruck · as Script Editor |
| 2001 | He Died with a Felafel in His Hand · as Script Editor |
| 2000 | Mallboy · as Script Editor |
| 1999 | Soft Fruit · as Script Editor |
| 1989 | Arguing the Toss of a Cat · as Art Director |