Renée Webster is a filmmaker from Western Australia. She is known for her direction work on several TV series, including The Heights, and on television commercials. Her first feature film, How to Please a Woman, was released in 2022.
Webster's short films Scoff (2003) and Edgar and Elizabeth (2007) were screened in film festivals worldwide and garnered awards.[1]
Her career in television started in Western Australia with direction work the children's television series Streetsmartz, which aired from 2005 to 2007.[2] This was followed by directing three episodes of Marx and Venus (2007–8).
She was set-up director[3] on five episodes of the children's TV series Itch, which aired in 2020, and directed 11 episodes across both seasons of The Heights (2019–2020), both on ABC Television.[3]
She also directs television commercials, including for Lotterywest and Western Power, and documentaries.[3]
She directed and wrote the screenplay for her first feature film, a comedy entitled How to Please a Woman, starring Sally Phillips and Erik Thomson.[4] After screening at Perth International Arts Festival, the WA Made Film Festival and a gala night at Luna Cinemas in Perth,[1] the film opened around Australia in May 2022 to generally positive reviews.[5] [6]