Michael Frank

Réalisateur·trice

Makovision FIlms

BIOGRAPHIE

M. FRANK film bio LIKE (2019) Two teenage girls post a murder on social media. *Raindance Film Festival 2019 *NOMINATED BEST FILM - Annual Copenhagen Film Festival 2020 ANONYMOSITY (2015) A hitman accepts jobs to pay for his mother's life support. *BEST CRIME FILM - Mediterranean Film Festival 2017 *Canada International Film Festival - 2016 SENSE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (2012) An old man receives mysterious postcards from South East Asia which threaten to expose a secret. *L'Etrange Film Festival - 2013 *Euroshorts 2012 GIUSEPPE & CALOGERA (feature – 2008) – Director / Writer / DP / Editor / Sound designer Two sisters travel across southern Italy in search of one another and discover haunting coincidences. www.gecmovie.zzl.org *MONICO FILM FESTIVAL – 2009; PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL - 2009 RA CHOI (feature - 2005) – Producer / Director / Writer / 2nd unit DP Four Asian street kids in Sydney’s ‘Little Saigon’ struggle to survive. *AUSTRALIAN WRITERS GUILD AWGIE AWARDS 2005 – Best Feature Film *WORLDFEST HOUSTON 2006 – Winner Gold Remi Award *NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS 2005 – Commended *AUSTRALIAN CINEMATOGRAPHERS SOCIETY (ACS) Awards - Silver award (motion picture) *SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2006 *LONDON AUSTRALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2006 THIS IS SLOVENIA (documentary 2007) - Director / Producer / Editor / DP Josko Joras is a man between two fires. He lives on the disputed border between Slovenia and Croatia. *UPPSALA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; *RIO DE JANEIRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; *BRISTOL ENCOUNTERS FILM FESTIVAL. Distributed through Future Shorts, London. AUTIST (short film - 2000) – Producer / Director / Writer A forwards moving woman is persecuted by a backwards moving society for being ‘different’. Winner of 9 awards and screened at 50 film festivals including: *CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – INTERCOM 2000 (Silver Plaque) *CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2000 (2nd Prize Experimental) *SOUTH BRONX FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, USA 2000 (Best Experimental Film) *HOUSTON WORLD FILMFEST 2001 (Silver Award) *MILAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, ITALY 2000 *ROME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, ITALY 2001 Screenings through Canal + Europe PURGATORY (short film - 1999) – Producer / Director / Writer An accident victim’s surreal experience in a hospital. Filmed in continuous 6 ½ min reverse shot. Winner of 32 awards and screened at over 100 film festivals including: CHICAGO (Gold Plaque); CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL (Best Film), SANTIAGO (Best Exp Film), CHILE INTERNATIONAL FF (Best Exp Film); MADRID (Best Film); ROTTERDAM, RIO DE JANEIRO, MONTREAL, HAMBURG, MOSCOW, TOKYO. TV screenings through Canal +. IN MEMORY OF LAURA (short film - 1997) – Producer / Director / Writer / Editor /2nd unit DP A marriage guidance counsellor is overcome by memories of his dead wife ‘Laura’. *OBERHAUSEN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Germany 1998 *JAKARTA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Indonesia 2000 *FRIGHTFEST, London 2000. TV screenings through Canal +. AUSTRALIAN WRITERS GUILD AWGIE AWARDS 2001 ‘THE HARD SELL’ Nominated – Monte Miller Award (unproduced screenplay) LIBERTY IN RESTRAINT (Documentary 2005) – Additional Cinematography FILM EDUCATION: AUSTRALIAN FILM, TELEVISION & RADIO SCHOOL (AFTRS) - Script Editing (1999) NORTH SYDNEY COLLEGE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION - Film Production Advanced Certificate (1989 – 1993) - Advertising Certificate (1990 - 1992) *Selected for Berlinale Talent Campus 2008.

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