Kane Senes is an award-winning filmmaker from Sydney, Australia. In 2009, with his short film "Forfeit of Grace", Kane was runner-up for Best Young Australian Filmmaker at the Byron Bay International Film Festival and in 2010, with his thesis short "A Relative Stranger", he won Best Film at multiple international film festivals, among other awards and nominations. After assisting on Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby", Kane co-wrote, produced and directed his debut feature film, "Echoes of War", starring James Badge Dale, Ethan Embry, William Forsythe and Maika Monroe. The film won a Special Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival before being distributed theatrically and on VOD by Arc Entertainment in May 2015. Kane is now developing his next feature while producing a project for Cannes award-winning director Anton du Preez from a script they both wrote.