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Awards AACTA Award for Best Children’s Television Series Nominations Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Program or Series Similar Jamie Croft, David Lyons, Kate Beahan, Lisa Gerrard, Max Cullen Profiles | ||
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Josh Wakely is an Australian director, screenwriter, and producer. He created the Netflix original animated series "Beat Bugs."
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- Tedxsydney daniel johns josh wakely my mind s own melody
- Josh wakely beat bugs netflix por javi ponzone
- Background
- Beat Bugs
- Other TV Projects
- Film Projects
- References
Wakely secured rights to three of the world’s most prestigious music publishing catalogues – The Beatles, Motown, and Bob Dylan – for the purpose of creating film and television projects based off them.
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Background
Wakely was raised in Newcastle, a coastal city two hours north of Sydney on the East Coast of Australia. He studied acting at Australia’s Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) before transitioning behind the camera and into the world of storytelling.
Wakely is a principal partner at Grace: A Storytelling Company, his film and television production company, based in Sydney and Los Angeles.
Beat Bugs
Wakely is the creator, director and producer of the children’s animated series “Beat Bugs,” which Netflix premiered globally on August 3, 2016. Australia’s Yahoo7 premiered the series on July 25, 2016 on 7Two. Netflix will premiere Season 2 of the show on November 18, 2016.
Inspired by music by The Beatles, the series tells uplifting and life-affirming stories filled with hope and melody. For the show, Wakely acquired the worldwide rights in a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing to record covers of the entire Lennon/McCartney ‘Northern Songs’ music catalogue. He enlisted featured artists to cover songs in the show who include: Pink, Eddie Vedder, Rod Stewart, Robbie Williams, Aloe Blacc, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Sia, The Shins, James Bay, Chris Cornell and Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers.
Wakely’s production company, Grace: A Storytelling Company, produced the series with Beyond Screen Production and Thunderbird. The Beat Bugs soundtrack is a joint release of Wakely’s newly formed label Melodia and Universal Music’s Republic Records.
Beat Bugs' 'Yellow Submarine' episode won the 2016 AWGIE Award in Animation. Awarded by The Australian Writers' Guild, the AWGIE Awards recognize and reward excellence in performance writing.
Other TV Projects
Wakely is currently developing two other television series. Using the rights he secured to the Jobete catalogue of Motown classics, he is developing another animated series for Netflix that’s based off these songs. Smokey Robinson will serve as executive music producer.
Wakely has also secured the rights to international music icon Bob Dylan’s entire 600-plus song catalogue and is creating a television series based on that music, tentatively entitled “Time Out of Mind.” Written and directed by Wakely, the series will be based off the characters and themes in Bob Dylan’s music.
In 2010, Wakely served as a writer on the acclaimed family series “Lockie Leonard,” which was nominated for a BAFTA and won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Children's Drama.
Film Projects
Wakely wrote and directed “My Mind’s Own Melody,” a cinematic modern musical that came out in 2011 and was accepted into the 2013 New York Film Festival. The short film featured original music and lyrics by former Silverchair front-man Daniel Johns and stars Golden Globe Award winner Lisa Gerrard.
Wakely has optioned the rights to the best-selling memoir Half a Life, which tells the haunting story of one man’s 20-year struggle with the accidental death of his high school classmate.