Amanda Brotchie | |
|---|---|
| Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | director, writer and linguist |
| Known for | Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Girlboss (2017), and Lowdown (2012). |
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.
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
- Gentleman Jack (2022) (2 episodes)
- The Letdown (2019) (2 episodes)
- Mr Black (2019) (4, episodes, set up director)
- A Place to Call Home (2018) (2 episodes)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) (1 episode)
- Squinters (2018–2019) (12 episodes)
- Girlboss (2018) (2 episodes)
- This is Littleton (2014) (4 episodes)
- Zuzu & the Supernuffs (2013) (8 episodes)
- Lowdown (2010–2012) (16 episodes)
Awards and nominations
- Screen Producers Australia Awards: This Is Littleton nominated for Best Comedy Series (2014)
- The AWGIE Awards: This is Littleton nominated for Best Television Comedy (2014)
- New York Television Festival: Bronze Award for Lowdown Series 2 (2013)
- New York Television Festival: Gold Award for Lowdown Series 1 (2011)
- AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild) Award: Best Comedy – Situation or Narrative for Lowdown. Episode 3 – "One Fine Gay". Won with Adam Zwar and Trudy Hellier (2012)
- Monte Carlo Television Festival: Best International TV Comedy (Lowdown nominated) (2013)
- Accolade Competition: Award for Excellence in Comedy – Lowdown[9]
- Accolade Competition: Award of Merit in Direction – Amanda Brotchie[9]
- AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild) Award: Best Comedy – Situation or Narrative for Lowdown. Episode 7 – "Who's Your Baddy?" Won with Adam Zwar[10] (2010)
- Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Television Comedy Series – Lowdown (2010) (Nominated)[11]
- Australian Directors Guild Awards: Best Direction in Television Comedy – Amanda Brotchie (2010) (Nominated)[12]
- Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Short Fiction Film. Break & Enter [13]
- Film Critics Circle of Australia: Best Short Fiction Film. Break & Enter [14]
- The Green Room Awards (Theatre): Outstanding Achievement in Writing (2002) – Headlock (Nominated)[6]
References
- ↑ Butler, Dianne (21 April 2010). "All you need to know is this: It's a very funny series". The Courier-Mail.
- ↑ "Lowdown". Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010., abc.net.au
- ↑ "High Wire Films - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia".
- ↑ "Cameras Roll On The Letdown Season Two".
- ↑ "What's on TV: Tuesday, May 7".
- 1 2 "www.greenroom.org.au/2002/2002winners". Retrieved 2003-11-16..
- ↑ "Postgraduate Students: Linguistics & Applied Linguistics: School of Languages & Linguistics: The University of Melbourne".
- ↑ "Reference at minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au".
- 1 2 "Lowdown wins awards in LA :TV Tonight".
- ↑ "AWGIES: 2010 winners :TV Tonight".
- ↑ "Animal Kingdom leads AFI nominations | Encore Magazine". Archived from the original on 30 December 2012.
- ↑ "ADG nominates top directors of the year | Encore Magazine". Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
- ↑ "Australian Film Institute". Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2010., afi.org.au
- ↑ "Break & Enter (1999) – Awards".