Anderson first gained success as a filmmaker in 1999, when he collaborated with university friend Brian Moses to create the short film
Life in a Datsun. The short was screened at the
Tropfest and
St Kilda Film Festival to great acclaim. In 2000, they followed it up with
Life in a Volkswagen. The success of Anderson's short films with Moses lead to the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation commissioning their late night TV series
Double the Fist. The show is a satire of lifestyle television and features the characters pursuing the "most extreme lifestyle choices they can make". Anderson was frustrated with representation on Australian television and wanted the show to be "lower-class people having cool fantasies and action adventures". In a shock upset, the series beat
Kath & Kim to win the 2004 Australian Film Institute award for best comedy series. The series returned for a second season in 2008. In 2008, Anderson also featured in three episodes of the ABC TV show
Review With Myles Barlow. Anderson served as associate producer and first assistant director on the series In 2013, Anderson was the subject of a six-part Observational Documentary series
Next Stop Hollywood, which followed him around Hollywood during pilot season. In 2014, he shared directing duties on Australia's first Indigenous sketch Comedy series
Black Comedy. Anderson and fellow director Bec Cole won the AACTA award for
Best Direction in TV Light Entertainment or Reality Series for the series. Between directing television projects, in 2016, Anderson directed his first feature film,
Red Christmas. The film was inspired by
Tony Kaye's exploration of abortion in
Lake of Fire. Gary Doust's documentary
Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare depicts Anderson's journey creating the film. In 2023, Anderson started an analytical film podcast called
Film Versus Film with Bruce and Herschel Isaacs from
The University of Sydney. The hosts compare two wildly different films each episode, in an effort to understand cinematic trends and what defines iconic films. The first season also features a series of reflections on what media influenced them growing up in Western Sydney working-class families during the late 80s and early 90s. ==Filmography==