Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage) (ANZSCO 212312)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage) on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Processing priority

Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage) isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage) is a Group B occupation, assessed against an AQF Bachelor degree or higher in a highly relevant field plus the standard employment test, and applicants are advised to supply a showreel link. Its own page excludes more sibling occupations than any other in the directing cluster — Art Director, Director of Photography, Film and Video Editor, Program Director, Stage Manager, Technical Director, Video Producer, the directors' nec code, and even a trade-level code outside this family entirely.

Where these applications come unstuck

This is the occupation whose title is the plain, general term for the whole directing cluster — and yet it is, by its own page's exclusions, never the correct code for someone whose actual job is Program Director, Stage Manager, Technical Director or Video Producer. A film or TV professional who defaults to the generic 'Director' title because it sounds like the senior, catch-all option is very possibly nominating under the wrong code, on the weaker list, for work a more specific title would describe better.

An honest read on this pathway

Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage) sits on the Short-term Skilled Occupation List only, reaching four visas — 190, 407, 491, 494 — with no 482 or 186. Four of its own explicitly-excluded siblings, Program Director, Stage Manager, Technical Director and Video Producer, each reach six visas including both employer-sponsored routes. The plainest job title in the cluster carries the weakest visa access inside it.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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