Bruno Starrs

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Born (1962-10-06) October 6, 1962 (age 61)
Adelaide, South Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupation
  • Screenwriting
  • Academia
  • Bodybuilding

Bruno Starrs (born David Bruno Starrs on the 6th of October 1962 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Indigenous Australian[1] best known for his endeavours in three areas: screenwriting, academia and bodybuilding.

Screenwriting

After winning him ‘Best Screenplay’ at the Brisbane Indie Film Festival and a place in the Queensland Writers Centre’s ‘Scriptable’ Mentoring Scriptwriters program in 2022,[2] Bruno Starrs’ three unproduced sci-fi/comedy feature film scripts (“Pheromone City”, “Invasion Day Mk II: A Blackfella Love Story” and “Attack of the Horny Killer Monkeys!”) won a combined total of 50 ‘Best Screenplay’ awards in 2023.[3]

Academia

Bruno Starrs holds six degrees, including two Masters and a PhD in creative writing and film studies.[4] He has lectured in English literature and cinema at universities in Australia, Brunei, China, Saudi Arabia and Thailand.[5] Bruno Starrs has over 70 sole-authored publications, garnering him a H-index of 6 and an i-10 of 4.[6] His research interests include the films of Rolf de Heer[7] and the cinema of Brunei[8] but his most influential academic research has been in vampirology,[9] exposing Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” as Catholic propaganda in 2004,[10] writing an Indigenous Australian-themed vampire novel “That Blackfella Bloodsucka Dance!” in 2012[11] and creating a new horror sub-genre, the ‘Aboriginal Fantastic’, in 2014.[12]

Bodybuilding

Bruno Starrs’ competitive bodybuilding career began in 1983 when he won the Mr Australian Capital Territory competition in his hometown of Canberra and reached its pinnacle in 2022 when he won the Over 60s Mr Australia title. He has since announced plans to contest the Over 60s Mr Universe.[13]

References

  1. Spirits, Jens Korff, Creative (February 21, 2019). "That Blackfella Bloodsucka Dance! (Book)". Creative Spirits.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. "Scriptable Shortlists". Queensland Writers Centre.
  3. "Bruno Starrs". FilmFreeway.
  4. "D. Bruno Starrs - Academia.edu". independent.academia.edu.
  5. "Bruno Starrs".
  6. https://www.scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=FlszYJcAAAAJ
  7. Wilson, Jake (May 21, 2002). "Heer No Evil: Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer by D. Bruno Starrs – Senses of Cinema".
  8. Devy, G. N.; Davis, G. V.; Chakravarty, K. K., eds. (January 4, 2011). Voice and Memory : Indigenous Imagination and Expression. Orient Blackswan. pp. 310–318 – via www.eprints.qut.edu.au.
  9. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=FlszYJcAAAAJ
  10. https://www.research.library.kutztown.edu.dracula-studies/vol6/iss1/3/
  11. Starrs, Bruno (October 25, 2014). "Hyperlinking History and Illegitimate Imagination: The Historiographic Metafictional E-novel". M/C Journal. 17 (5). doi:10.5204/mcj.866 – via www.journal.media-culture.org.au.
  12. Starrs, Bruno (July 24, 2014). "Writing Indigenous Vampires: Aboriginal Gothic or Aboriginal Fantastic?". M/C Journal. 17 (4). doi:10.5204/mcj.834 – via www.journal.media-culture.org.au.
  13. Moncrieff, Darren. “Starrs aiming for the (Mr) Universe”, Koori Mail, Issue 796, 8 March 2023, p. 60

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