Co-founder of production company ArtSpear, Joe Bauer has been writing and creating films since he was 11 years old. Joe won numerous awards for his shorts as a young filmmaker and moved on to write, direct, edit and star in multi-award-winning internationally-distributed feature films Australiens, The Killage and web series The Void: Rebooted. Joe is the co-writer, sole animator, composer, sound designer and male voice actor for Toon Sandwich, a YouTube series that has gained over half a billion views. Joe is also an internationally renowned illustrator of 6 children's books - the popular Eric Vale and Derek Dale trilogies - all of which have been published in multiple countries around the world. Most recently, Joe co-created, directed and acted in true crime mockumentary series UnTrue Crime, a recipient of the 2023 Screen Australia and YouTube Skip Ahead initiative.