Gillian Armstrong
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| Born | Gillian May Armstrong 18 December 1950 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Director |
| Years active | 1970–present |
Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries.
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[edit] Career
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Gillian Armstrong grew up in the eastern suburb of Mitcham. She graduated from Swinburne Technical College in 1968 where she studied theatrical costume design and film-making. In 1972 she entered, and later graduated from, the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Three years later she directed two shorts films: The Singer And The Dancer and Smokes and Lollies (1975).
Her feature length film My Brilliant Career (1979), an adaptation of Miles Franklin's novel of the same name, was the first Australian feature length film to be directed by a woman for 46 years. Armstrong received six awards at the 1979 Australian Film Awards, including Best Director. Following the success of My Brilliant Career, which was nominated for an Academy Award in Best Costume Design, Armstrong directed the Australian musical Starstruck (1982).
Since then, Armstrong has specialised in period drama. She achieved her greatest Hollywood success with the 1994 adaptation of Little Women, starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon, and followed with the films Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Charlotte Gray (2001).
Armstrong discusses the making of High Tide in the 2003 Canadian documentary Complete Unknown.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Type | Notes |
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| 1970 | Old Man and Dog | short | |
| 1971 | Roof Needs Mowing | short | |
| 1973 | Satdee Night | short | also writer |
| 1973 | One Hundred a Day | short | also writer |
| 1973 | Gretel | short | also writer |
| 1975 | The Singer and the Dancer | short | also co-writer, producer |
| 1976 | Smokes and Lollies | documentary | |
| 1979 | My Brilliant Career | ||
| 1980 | Touch Wood | documentary | |
| 1980 | Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better | documentary | also producer |
| 1982 | Starstruck | ||
| 1983 | Having a Go | documentary | |
| 1984 | Mrs. Soffel | Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] | |
| 1986 | Hard to Handle | documentary | |
| 1987 | High Tide | ||
| 1988 | Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces | documentary | |
| 1991 | Fires Within | ||
| 1992 | The Last Days of Chez Nous | Entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.[2] | |
| 1994 | Little Women | ||
| 1996 | Not Fourteen Again | documentary | also writer, producer |
| 1997 | Oscar and Lucinda | ||
| 2001 | Charlotte Gray | ||
| 2005 | Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst | documentary | |
| 2008 | Death Defying Acts | ||
| 2009 | Love, Lust & Lies |
[edit] References
- The Story of Kerry, Josie and Diana - 14-47 at DVD Resurrections, by Wizard of Gore.
- Love, Lust & Lies' at DVD Resurrections, by Wizard of Gore.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1985 Programme". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1985/02_programm_1985/02_Programm_1985.html. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1992 Programme". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1992/02_programm_1992/02_Programm_1992.html. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
[edit] Notes
- Carter, Helen (2002). Gillian Armstrong. Retrieved 14 December 2004.
[edit] External links
- Gillian Armstrong's Agent
- Gillian Armstrong at the Internet Movie Database
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
- Literature on Gillian Armstrong
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