
Aaron McCann
Directing
Biography
Writer/Director of: Top Knot Detective, Koko: A Red Dog Story, Hug the Sun, Perished, It's a Snap! & Set Yourself Free - Actor in: Henry & Aaron's 7 Steps to Superstardom, #7DaysLater
Known For

What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.
These Final Hours

Fresh off the plane and in need of money, two Finnish backpackers find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” sent to work as barmaids at the only pub in a remote Australian mining town.
Hotel Coolgardie

In a near-future, darknet grifter Dougie is recruited to work security at a refugee detention centre. There, he is drawn into an underground operation blackmailing detainees to fight for profit. When tragedy strikes courageous fighter Azad, Dougie locates his hitherto dormant conscience and takes a stand.
Below

In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan Ronin Suiri Tentai (meaning roughly Deductive Reasoning Ronin), it was soon known in the West as Top Knot Detective. The original series was legendary in Japan, a cultural train wreck led by Takashi Tawagoto, a crazy writer, producer, director and lead actor; one who could not act, fight or write at all.
Top Knot Detective

BJ, Trent, Linda and (occasionally) Trina host Australia's favourite religious variety hour that is most certainly NOT for children. Praise Oxtos.
Hug the Sun

Anthology feature with short zombie films from around the world and focusing on survival in a zombie apocalypse.
Zombie Wars

It’s every adult’s worst nightmare: moving back in with their parents. Having done just that, a down-and-out husband and his pregnant wife quickly realize that his folks don’t want them around, triggering a raucous power struggle that goes off the rails.
Birthright

The true story of an ordinary dog, whose good fortune and ability to connect with people catapults him to fame.
Koko: A Red Dog Story

Lola, a shy 16-year-old Indonesian girl, receives a scholarship to study at a famous high school in Perth, Australia. There she meets Dhani, and love begins to blossom in the foreign city.
Love in Perth

Just when you thought the trend of smug, hipster-halfwits attempting to try their hand at investigative online journalism couldn't get worse, along comes the DAFUQ? team.
DAFUQ?
Follows two people whose unexpected reunion stirs long-buried feelings and unspoken uncertainties about love, time and reinvention.
Twice Over

Three deeply flawed and lonely housemates turn on each other when the opportunity of love knocks on their front door.
The Actress

A group of filmmakers set off to a remote part of Western Australia to shoot their low budget period drama. But something doesn't want them to finish. and is out to kill them all. One by one.
The Director's Cut

Jacob is an up and coming actor living in the most famous isolated city in the world, Perth in Western Australia. Jacob receives his big break in the form of a starring role in a new cop show being filmed on the other side of the country in Sydney. However, the week before his departure, Jacob meets a vulnerable young woman named Cheryl. It's at this point Jacob's world quickly starts to unravel around him as a series of unresolved misdemeanors begin to threaten not only Jacob's shot at fame but his very life. Jacob realizes he has no option, but to tie up the lose ends still lingering in his life in order to make his transition to Sydney a smooth one. Jacob is forced to take unexpected measures in order to keep his dream alive, resulting in unforeseen consequences. Shot entirely on location in Perth, Australia.
Plum Role

Director Mat de Koning captures the rollercoaster journey of a young Perth band, the Screwtop Detonators, their manager Dave Kavanagh (an ex-mentor to The Libertines) and their one-time roadie, Will Stoker, as they grapple with the music industry's long road to the top. Initially ambitious and eager for fame and fortune, their aspirations change over time as they individually discover what truly matters in life.
Meal Tickets
When Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling established Western Australia's Swan River colony (later the city of Perth) in 1829, times were tough. Seed refused to grow, food was scarce, and the initially good relations between British settlers and local Indigenous Noongar people tragically spiraled out of control into a conflict over land and resources. Standing out during this period were the actions of a Noongar warrior named Yagan.
Yagan

Black Prison White Playground. Wadjemup/Rottnest Island. A beautiful place that is culturally and spiritually significant to Aboriginal people. And also a site where gross harm took place and hundreds of Aboriginal men are buried in unmarked graves.
Wadjemup: Black Prison White Playground

A young boy is forced to stand up and face his fears head on to save a friend.
The Billabong

After trying to convince some bullying kids that her father is a robot, Ally is dared to shoot him with a spear gun to prove it.
Good Pretender

Henry was always a Good little boy, so Santa left him gifts that filled him with Joy. Aaron, however, was wicked and cruel, so Santa made it his business to treat him a fool... that was until this Christmas when Aaron finally gets his revenge.