Alister Grierson (born 1969) is an Australian film director and
scriptwriter.Born in Canberra, he completed his secondary schooling at
Canberra Grammar, graduated in Economics and Arts from the Australian
National University and studied Japanese in Tokyo. As an under 18
Australian Rules player, he represented the ACT in the Teal Cup but
later switched codes to Rugby, playing 1st grade both for his school
and the ANU. Whilst at university, his interest in film-making
developed, and he later gained a Master of Arts in Directing at AFTRS.
He has shot 15 short films winning three Tropfest awards and is the
director of the feature film, Kokoda, which he co-wrote.In 2009
Grierson was invited to the Avatar set during shooting by James
Cameron, and was selected to direct a 3D cave-diving drama Sanctum,
using the Cameron-developed Fusion Camera System. The script is
inspired by the near-death experience of one of the writers, Andrew
Wight, who was trapped in a cave collapse under the Nullarbor Plain.
It was shot at Warner Roadshow Studios on the Queensland Gold Coast,
and the film opened 4 February 2011. By mid-March the film had joined
the top ten Worldwide Box Office Results (Australian Films): All Time,
in ninth position. The worldwide gross had reached $108,943,221 by 19
October 2011.He is the director of Parer's War, starring Matthew Le
Nevez and Adelaide Clemens, a dramatised biopic about Damien Parer for
the ABC. Although set in Sydney (for the Australian locations), much
of the filming was done in Queensland. The script, by Alison Nisselle,
is an adaptation of Neil McDonald's book Damien Parer’s War.
Released on 27 April 2014, the film attracted the following comments
from Graeme Blundell in the Australian: "Parer’s War is taut,
intelligently constructed and sharply executed by Grierson,..." and
"It’s all beautifully put together by Grierson..."
scriptwriter.Born in Canberra, he completed his secondary schooling at
Canberra Grammar, graduated in Economics and Arts from the Australian
National University and studied Japanese in Tokyo. As an under 18
Australian Rules player, he represented the ACT in the Teal Cup but
later switched codes to Rugby, playing 1st grade both for his school
and the ANU. Whilst at university, his interest in film-making
developed, and he later gained a Master of Arts in Directing at AFTRS.
He has shot 15 short films winning three Tropfest awards and is the
director of the feature film, Kokoda, which he co-wrote.In 2009
Grierson was invited to the Avatar set during shooting by James
Cameron, and was selected to direct a 3D cave-diving drama Sanctum,
using the Cameron-developed Fusion Camera System. The script is
inspired by the near-death experience of one of the writers, Andrew
Wight, who was trapped in a cave collapse under the Nullarbor Plain.
It was shot at Warner Roadshow Studios on the Queensland Gold Coast,
and the film opened 4 February 2011. By mid-March the film had joined
the top ten Worldwide Box Office Results (Australian Films): All Time,
in ninth position. The worldwide gross had reached $108,943,221 by 19
October 2011.He is the director of Parer's War, starring Matthew Le
Nevez and Adelaide Clemens, a dramatised biopic about Damien Parer for
the ABC. Although set in Sydney (for the Australian locations), much
of the filming was done in Queensland. The script, by Alison Nisselle,
is an adaptation of Neil McDonald's book Damien Parer’s War.
Released on 27 April 2014, the film attracted the following comments
from Graeme Blundell in the Australian: "Parer’s War is taut,
intelligently constructed and sharply executed by Grierson,..." and
"It’s all beautifully put together by Grierson..."
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