Career
He first achieved prominence by winning third place in Sydney's annual Tropfest short film festival in 1995 for a biographical short entitled Pizza Man based on his experiences as a pizza delivery driver. He won the Tropfest award for best film in 1998 for Intolerance, although he had submitted the film under the pseudonym Laura Feinstein in order to appeal to the sensitivities of the judges, particularly Tropfest founder John Polson, who hoped that a female director would win the award.
Fenech was then able to secure a deal with Australian community broadcaster SBS to produce a sitcom based on his short film. Entitled Pizza, and premiering in 2000, several series of this have to date been produced, in addition to a full-length, cinematically-released motion picture, Fat Pizza.
He made a documentary called More Than Legends, a documentary that highlighted Aboriginal culture through the eyes of three elders.
Fenech also created the sitcom series Swift and Shift Couriers. The show began on SBS on the 27th of October 2008. First series contained 9 episodes and the second series began to air in August 15, 2011 after the filming finished mid 2009.
Housos is a new sitcom Fenech created and first aired in October 24, 2011. Two series of this have to date been produced, in addition to a full-length, cinematically-released motion picture, Housos vs. Authority.
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