Amanda Brotchie

Amanda Brotchie, born in Melbourne, Victoria), is an Australian director known for Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Mr Black (2019), Girlboss (2017), and Lowdown (2010-2012). She is also a writer, producer and linguist.

Amanda Brotchie
BornMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation(s)director, writer and linguist
Known forPicnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Girlboss (2017), and Lowdown (2012).

Career

Brotchie co-created the multi-award-winning series Lowdown (ABC, BBC 4), through the company High Wire Films, which she founded with producer, Nicole Minchin, and her husband, writer, producer and actor, Adam Zwar.[1][2][3]

Other TV shows Brotchie has directed include Picnic at Hanging Rock (Showcase, Amazon), Girlboss (Netflix), A Place to Call Home (Showcase, Acorn TV), The Letdown Series 2 (ABC,[4] Netflix), Squinters (ABC), and Mr Black (Network 10), created by Adam Zwar, which she wrote on and set up.[5]

Theatre credits include The Inner Sanctum, which she directed, and Headlock, which she wrote and directed, and which was nominated for a Green Room Award for Writing.[6]

Brotchie directed the multi-award-winning short film Break & Enter (1999). Her awards include an AFI award for Best Short Film, and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Short Film. Break & Enter screened at numerous international festivals and, rare for a short film, had a cinema release in Australia through Palace Cinemas, supporting Happy, Texas.

Brotchie has a PhD in linguistics, from the University of Melbourne.[7] In researching her PhD, she lived in a remote village on an island in Vanuatu, filming and documenting the local language and culture.[8]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References
  1. Butler, Dianne (21 April 2010). "All you need to know is this: It's a very funny series". The Courier-Mail.
  2. "Lowdown". Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010., abc.net.au
  3. "High Wire Films - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia".
  4. "Cameras Roll On The Letdown Season Two".
  5. "What's on TV: Tuesday, May 7".
  6. "www.greenroom.org.au/2002/2002winners". Retrieved 2003-11-16..
  7. "Postgraduate Students: Linguistics & Applied Linguistics: School of Languages & Linguistics: The University of Melbourne".
  8. "Reference at minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au".
  9. "Lowdown wins awards in LA :TV Tonight".
  10. "AWGIES: 2010 winners :TV Tonight".
  11. "Animal Kingdom leads AFI nominations | Encore Magazine". Archived from the original on 30 December 2012.
  12. "ADG nominates top directors of the year | Encore Magazine". Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  13. "Australian Film Institute". Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2010., afi.org.au
  14. "Break & Enter (1999) – Awards".
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