Brett
Clements

Cadet journalist on Sydney's Manly Daily at sixteen. Graded by News Limited at seventeen. Worked the sports desk at The Daily Mirror under Peter Frilingos and Ian Hanson, covering rugby league. Trained on the Murdoch dictum: never give up, always come back with a story.

Beat eight thousand national applicants for Newsreel after missing the Sydney audition and self-funding a flight to Melbourne. Hired by Simon Townsend onto Simon Townsend's Wonder World! — the Logie-winning daily youth news magazine on Network Ten. Wrote, shot, directed and edited 3.5-minute stories on daily deadlines. The show won five Logies during Brett's era. Townsend later named him one of the two best filmmakers across the show's eight-year, two-thousand-episode run.

Self-funded a $175,000 pilot shoot for a 20 × 44-minute magazine series on world record-breaking stunts. Filmed on 16mm Negative AGFA. Produced for Network Ten with Beyond International. Director, Presenter & Executive Producer. Sold into 55 territories.

Co-founded A Couple 'A Cowboys with Phillip Tanner — a production house that cut the advertising agency out of the creative process and went direct to client. Won the Australian Tourism Commission, QANTAS, Tourism New Zealand and Tourism Authority of Thailand accounts head-to-head against global agencies. Created Australia – Dream About It, Australia – User Friendly and Australia – Unconventional during the 1989 Pilots' Strike with no production budget — sourcing 1″ tape footage from blue-chip Australian companies in exchange for end credits. Created New Zealand – A Real Slice of Heaven on Hi-8 years before reality TV was a category. Lifted inbound NZ tourism by approximately ten percent.

Invented, designed and directed the global cult hit Nightmare and ATMOSFEAR — and every international production, marketing and advertising campaign. Print. Radio. TV. Outdoor. Cinema. The world's first video board game, fronted by the now-infamous Gatekeeper. Introduced Halloween to the Australian retail market. Joint venture with Roadshow Entertainment signed March 1991, world rights to 2001. Licensed to Chieftain (Canada), Clementoni (Italy), Schmidt Spiele (Germany), Borras Plana (Spain), J.W. Spear / Mattel (UK & France), Mattel (Benelux, Latin America, Rest of World), A.S. Company (Greece). Sequels: Baron Samedi, Anne de Chantraine, Elizabeth Bathory, RAP RAT, ATMOSFEAR The Harbingers, Booster Tapes, Soul Rangers, Card Game, Third Dimension CD-ROM. Independent earlier hit OZ QUIZ — packaged in a foam esky — sold 250,000+ in Australia. Spawned KIWI QUIZ, BRIT QUIZ, DARE, The Truth Hurts, A Bit Sketchy.

Granted Alien of Extraordinary Ability status (USCIS I-140, approved 30 October 1996, California Service Center). Established a production house in Los Angeles. Studied film briefly at UCLA. Worked with producer Rupert McConnick and Saville Films on commercial campaigns including Carlsberg Beer and Ethiopian Airlines. Created and licensed The Aquanauts — a 26-part underwater adventure series — to Animal Planet via Village Roadshow Pictures Television, with Tim Vincent.

Returned to Australia after the Los Angeles years. Produced Nine's Fear Factor. Directed Jack Singleton's edgy launch campaign for Mark Bouris and Wizard Home Loans. Digitised what would become Australia's largest children's modelling agency. Directed James Blundell's return with A Very Good Life.

Founded Propvid: real-estate video tours, originally on DVD, then streamed online — at a time when YouTube didn't yet exist. Pioneered hourly video billing in real estate. Won McGrath as the first major client. Re-platformed as PlatinumHD, built into a franchise network across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, New Zealand, Los Angeles and New York. Closed the franchise in 2016: impossible to control creativity and production quality across dozens of independent operators.

Diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer in November 2017. Chemo, radiation, two operations, eighteen months. In remission since 2019. Cancer reframed the work. Dumped the RED cinema cameras. Switched the entire production stack to iPhone, Apple Log, Blackmagic Camera, DaVinci Resolve, drone, custom LUTs. Built a bespoke mobile SMART studio. Production now travels in a backpack.

Illustrating and coding Carny Island — a hybrid video board game that mixes tabletop play with mobile phones used as entertainment portals. Re-united with Milt Barlow (former President of Roadshow Entertainment, who put Nightmare/ATMOSFEAR into 32 territories and 12 languages) for global licensing. Ongoing.

Operating with multi-AI orchestration — Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity — against million-token context windows. Building documentary archives as living narrative systems rather than fixed films: segmented, tagged for narrative function and emotional tone, infinitely recombinable. Preparing for OTT and fragmented-media clipping. Currently in production on cagerace.com, scottwagner.tv and ipqld.land.

Started an ongoing passion-project documentary series following the Australian National Swimming Squad on the road to the Olympics. Twenty-four athletes inside one of the toughest sports teams in the world. Explores the physical, mental and emotional toll of kids sacrificing everything for a sport that disappears from public view between Olympic cycles. Filmed entirely on iPhone in Apple Log. Ongoing.

Teamed up with Ed Anderson — Masters swimming champion, primary school teacher and head coach — to create cagerace.com: a brutal 10 × 50-metre lactate test with no rules other than survive. Live competition format, designed for the screen. Ongoing production.