Kiah Roache-Turner
Birthdate – December 20, 1978 (45 Years Old)
Birthplace – Sydney, Australia
Kiah Roache-Turner is an Australian filmmaker who has specialized in intense horror entertainments, making his stamp as director-editor early with the DIY, crowd-funded action-horror-comedy movie, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014), a wild zombie entry influenced by George Miller’s Mad Max and Dawn of the Dead that was co-written by Roache-Turner (with brother-collaborator Tristan Roache-Turner) and starring Jay Gallagher and Bianca Bradey and which premiered at Fantastic Fest and the Busan festival.
Kiah Roache-Turner, having made short films since 2008, continued making them until he was director and co-writer (again with brother Tristan) of his second feature, Nekrotronic (2018), co-starring Ben O’Toole, Monica Bellucci, and Caroline Ford, and backed by Entertainment One Features and Screen Australia, and which premiered at the Sitges film festival.
Roache-Turner was director/co-writer (with brother Tristan)/editor of the zombie apocalypse sequel, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021), starring Luke McKenzie, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Jake Ryan, and Bianca Bradey, premiering at Sitges. Roache-Turner was writer-director of his first horror feature without his brother and set outside of Australia—in this case, New York City—with Sting (2024), starring Ryan Corr, Alyla Browne, Jermaine Fowler, and Penelope Mitchell, and released by Well Go USA Entertainment.
Kiah Roache-Turner smashed genres again as director/writer of the war movie-meets-shark thriller, Beast of War (date to be announced).
Personal Details
Kiah Roache-Turner was born and raised in Sydney, Australia by his parents. Roache-Turner has a brother, Tristan, who is also his producer partner, and with whom he began making home movies with a Hi8 camera he received in 1990. Roache-Turner attended and graduated from high school, and then earned a digital media degree (with honors) from the University of Sydney’s College of the Arts.
Filmography
Sting
(2024)
Some Facts About Kiah Roache-Turner
Shingle: Kiah Roache-Turner created the Australian independent film production company, Guerilla Films, in 2010 with his producer-brother Tristan Roache-Turner.
Resume: Roache-Turner has worked in a variety of professions, beyond feature filmmaking, including head of video content for the Australian fashion brand, aussieBum, as well as a printer and photographer.
Gorey: Kiah Roache-Turner remarked, “I wanna finish the end of a shooting day and I have to wipe the gore off myself. That’s how I want to make movies.”
