Elissa Down is an Australian filmmaker who, in 1999 and 2000, was
nominated for Young Film-maker of the year at the WA Screen Awards.Her
major works are a number of award-winning short films, Summer Angst,
The Cherry Orchard, Her Outback, The Bathers, Pink Pyjamas, HMAS
Unicorn and Samantha Stewart, aged fourteen. They have been screened
at numerous festivals including Tampere, Locarno Aix-en-Provence,
Montecatini, Milan, San Francisco Indie, St Kilda, Brisbane,
Revelation, Women on Women, POV and Tropfest. These shorts have also
been screened in theatres and broadcast nationally and overseas. Down
was one of Australia's upcoming artists featured in the In Progress
spread in Vogue (2005).Down's first feature film, the
semi-autobiographical, The Black Balloon was released in Australian
cinemas 6 March 2008. It stars Rhys Wakefield, Gemma Ward, Luke Ford,
Erik Thomson and Academy Award Nominee Toni Collette. The Film was
partially based on herself and family. The world premiere was at the
Berlin International Film Festival in Germany in February 2008, where
the film received a Crystal Bear as the best feature-length film in
the Generation 14plus category. On 6 December 2008 Down was awarded
the AFI Best DIrection in Film Award and AFI Best Original Screenplay
Award for the Black Balloon. The film also won the L'Oreal Paris AFI
Award for Best FIlm.
nominated for Young Film-maker of the year at the WA Screen Awards.Her
major works are a number of award-winning short films, Summer Angst,
The Cherry Orchard, Her Outback, The Bathers, Pink Pyjamas, HMAS
Unicorn and Samantha Stewart, aged fourteen. They have been screened
at numerous festivals including Tampere, Locarno Aix-en-Provence,
Montecatini, Milan, San Francisco Indie, St Kilda, Brisbane,
Revelation, Women on Women, POV and Tropfest. These shorts have also
been screened in theatres and broadcast nationally and overseas. Down
was one of Australia's upcoming artists featured in the In Progress
spread in Vogue (2005).Down's first feature film, the
semi-autobiographical, The Black Balloon was released in Australian
cinemas 6 March 2008. It stars Rhys Wakefield, Gemma Ward, Luke Ford,
Erik Thomson and Academy Award Nominee Toni Collette. The Film was
partially based on herself and family. The world premiere was at the
Berlin International Film Festival in Germany in February 2008, where
the film received a Crystal Bear as the best feature-length film in
the Generation 14plus category. On 6 December 2008 Down was awarded
the AFI Best DIrection in Film Award and AFI Best Original Screenplay
Award for the Black Balloon. The film also won the L'Oreal Paris AFI
Award for Best FIlm.
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