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Rowan Woods is an Australian AACTA Award-winning film and television director, best known for the 1998 film The Boys and the 2016 television drama series The Kettering Incident.
Rowan Woods was born in 1959 in Sydney, Australia. He is a director and actor, known for The Boys (1998), Little Fish (2005) and The Kettering Incident (2016).
The wood is dense and used for carving and turning and for tool handles and walking sticks. Rowan fruit are a traditional source of tannins for mordanting vegetable dyes. In Finland, it has been a traditional wood of choice for horse sled shafts and rake spikes.
Rowan Woods is an Australian film and television director, actor and screenwriter. Woods directed The Boys in 1998 and won an AFI award for best direction. His next film, Little Fish was released in September 2005 in Australia, starring Cate Blanchett.
The rowan features in Norse mythology and legend has it that it saved the life of the god Thor by bending over a fast flowing river in the Underworld in which he was being swept away. Thor managed to grab the tree and get back to the shore.
Common names: rowan, mountain ash, witch wiggin tree, keirn, cuirn. Scientific name: Sorbus aucuparia. Family: Rosaceae. Origin: native. Mature trees can grow to 15m in height and can live for up to 200 years. The bark is smooth and silvery grey, and leaf buds are purple and hairy.
6 Dis 2023 · Rowan Woods, the head of episodic & series programme for the BFI London Film Festival, has been appointed as the new creative director of the Edinburgh TV Festival, replacing Stewart Clarke who leaves the role after four festivals.
