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He is the Producer/Writer/Director of the feature film Maslin

Beach (1996), the telemovie Summer of Love (2001) and the

television documentaries Tomorrow's Sun (1999) and

Runnning on Sunshine (2004).

Wayne is based in Adelaide, South Australia.

He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1972 with a

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and was the co-winner of the

Institute of Engineers prestigious Parson's Prize.

He entered the film industry in 1979 and formed his own

production company soon after, financing and producing

South Australia's first independent feature film Centrespread

in conjunction with Greg Lynch Film Distributors. This film was

one of the first Australian films shot on Super 16. The

cinematographer was Geoff Simpson (Fried Green Tomatoes,

Oscar & Lucinda).

Other feature films and television dramas produced by Groom

include The Dreaming (Dir: Mario Andreacchio), Strangers

(Dir: Craig Lahiff), Pals (Dir: Mario Andreacchio), Point of

Departure (Dir: Kathryn Millard).

In 1991 and 1992, Groom studied comedy and screenwriting

in Los Angeles at UCLA Ext. He also took acting classes with

renown dramatist Jeff Corey.

Maslin Beach was the first feature he wrote and directed. It

was made over three weeks on the famous South Australian

nude beach. It has subsequently been screened on the Nine

Network in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. It gained cult

status in Australia after being released on video and is now

available on DVD in the USA.

His next film, Tomorrow's Sun, a television documentary on

the 1999 World Solar Challenge, made in conjunction with

Panorama Australia, was screened on the Ten Network in

Australia and Discovery Channel Asia-Pacific. It was

purchased for world distribution by ZDF in Germany.

The following project, the moody art film Summer of  Love

was the first Australian telemovie shot on High Definition.

It was screened in 2001 on the Nine Network.

In 2004, he completed a new international television

documentary, Running on Sunshine, with investment from

the Film Finance Corporation, the South Australian Film

Corporation, Australian Major Events and the Seven Network,

which is now available on DVD.

Groom funds his projects independently, working on relatively

low budgets, which gives him the creative freedom to explore

subjects outside the mainstream. His films question the

meaning of life and explore subversive sexual themes.

Groom is the former President of the Screen Producers

Association of Australia (SA), a former Board Member

of the Media Resource Centre and is  a current  industry

Representative on the South Australian Film

Corporation script development committee.