FILMOGRAPHY
2023
THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART
7 x 1 hour - LIMITED SERIES
DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
Produced by Jodi Matterson, Bruna Papendrea and Steve Hutensky. Written by Sarah Lambert.
Based on the International Best selling novel by Holly Ringland a starring Sigourney Weaver. The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart is the story of a young girl loses both her parents in a tragic event and is taken to live with her grandmother on a remote flower farm. Growing up, Alice learns the language of Australian native flowers as a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. But she also learns that there are secrets within secrets about her past. An unexpected betrayal leaves her reeling, and she escapes to try to make her own - sometimes painful - way through the world, and to find her story.
Spanning twenty years, and set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm and a celestial crater in the desert, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows the life of Alice as she discovers that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.
NOMINATED FOR 12 AACTA AWARDS 2024
WINNER AACTA AWARD FOR ‘BEST MINI SERIES’ 2024
★★★★★ “A VISUALLY STUNNING FIVE STAR TRIUMPH" THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
★★★★ "THIS IS A SERIES THAT REELS YOU IN EPISODE BY EPISODE. " THE EVENING STANDARD UK
“…entertaining, moving and vividly atmospheric…” The New York Times
2019
PENGUIN BLOOM (RELEASE 2021)
FEATURE FILM
DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
Written by Shaun Grant and Harry Cripps, Produced by Bruna Papendrea, Emma Cooper, Jodi Matterson, Steve Hutensky, Naomi Watts.
Based on the International best-selling book of the same name, this magical film tells the true and emotional story of a family’s extraordinary friendship with a unique little bird. Set on Australia’s northern beaches, the film stars Naomi Watts as Sam Bloom, a young mother recovering from a near-fatal accident that has left her unable to walk. As they struggle to come to terms with their new situation, a guardian angel enters their lives in the form of an injured magpie chick, whom they name ‘Penguin’. This odd little bird helps them rediscover the preciousness of life, as they learn to heal as a family.
NOMINATED FOR 8 AACTA AWARDS INCLUDING BEST FILM and BEST DIRECTION 2021
NOMINATED FOR BEST DIRECTION. AUSTRALIA DIRECTORS GUILD 2021
“…A MUST SEE.” The Australian
★★★★ TODAY
2018
THE CRY
4 x 1 hour MINI-SERIES (SYNCHRONICITY FILMS / BBC1)
DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
Written by Jacquelin Perske, Produced by Claire Mundell and Brian Kaczynski.
The disappearance of a baby from a small coastal town in Australia is the catalyst for a journey into the disintegrating psychology of a young couple as they deal with an unthinkable tragedy under both the white light of public scrutiny and behind closed doors.
Nominated JENNA COLEMAN ‘BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS’ INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS
WINNER ‘BEST MINI SERIES’ SCOTTISH BAFTA AWARDS 2019
NOMINATED FOR 8 AACTA AWARDS INCLUDING BEST MINI SERIES 2019
NOMINATED ‘BEST MINI SERIES’ ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY 2019
“gobsmacking drama – and a must-watch” THE GUARDIAN AU
"One of the most intense dramas the BBC has ever produced. " CULTURE WHISPERER
"BEAUTIFULLY, BRUTALLY DONE." THE GUARDIAN UK
"POWERHOUSE PERFORMANCES." DAILY MAIL
SAFE HARBOUR
4 x 1 hour MINI-SERIES (SBS / MATCHBOX / NBCUniVERSAL)
DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
Written by Belinda Chayko. Produced by Stephen Corvini.
A psychological thriller set in Brisbane set around a group of friends whose sailing holiday to Indonesia alters their lives forever after they come across a boat overloaded with asylum seekers.
WINNER ‘BEST MINI SERIES’ INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS 2019
Nominated for 8 AACTA NOMINATIoNS INCLUDING BEST TELEVISION DRAMA
WINNER, AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION IN A TELEVISION DRAMA 2018
"GRIPPING AND PROFOUND" THE AUSTRALIAN
"OUTSTANDING" THE GUARDIAN
"SUPERB PERFORMANCES" SYDNEY MORNING HEARLD
"A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT" TV WEEK
2017
THE SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY
SET UP / DIRECTOR | EPISODES 01, 02 (ABC / MATCHBOX / NBCUNIVERSAL)
Six part mini series based on Elliot Pearlman's best selling novel of the same name. Starring Hugo Weaving, Alex Dimitriades, Susie Porter, Anthony Hayes, Leeanna Walsman and Xavier Samuels.
Written by Jacquelin Perske, Produced by Amanda Higgs and Tony Ayres.
When a seven-year-old boy is taken from school, his parents, Joe and Anna, are frantic. The boy is returned unharmed and the police arrest the mother's ex-boyfriend Simon and then investigate his suspected accomplice Angela, who has a connection to the boy's father. Simon's psychiatrist Dr Alex Klima, his lawyer Gina, and Joe's best mate Mitch are pulled into the entangled relationships and moral dilemmas
Nominated for 9 AACTA NOMINATIoNS. INCLUDING BEST TELEVISION DRAMA and BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER OF 5 AACTA AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST DIRECTION IN A TELEVISION DRAMA 2017
★★★★★ THE AUSTRALIAN
"NOTHING SHORT OF STUNNING" THE AGE
"MUST SEE TELEVISION" SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
2016
THE BEAUTIFUL LIE
SET UP / DIRECTOR | EPISODES 01, 02, 03 (ABC / SHINE ENDERMOL)
A modern day re-imagining of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Starring Sarah Snook.
Written by Alice Bell, Produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks.
NOMINATED FOR 9 AACTA AWARDS INCLUDING BEST TELEVISON DRAMA 2016
"THE BEAUTIFUL LIE IS ABOUT AS GOOD AT TV GETS RIGHT NOW" THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"IT IS SO CRISP IN THE EXECUTION AND SO HONEST IN IT'S EMOTIONS - WILDLY PASSIONATE, REFLECTIVE, REGRETFUL, INTENSELY DRIVEN - THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO LOOK AWAY FROM" THE AGE
"THE SEXIEST SERIES OF THE YEAR" HERALD SUN
Gallipoli
DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
Critically acclaimed 8 x 1 hour drama produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the WW1 Gallipoli landings. Starring, Kodi Smith-McPhee
Written by Christopher Lee, Produced by John Edwards, Robert Connolly and Imogen Banks.
Two young brothers face the brutality of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign during the First World War.
As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, Anzac troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. Although they fight heroically in a chaotic and confusing battle, the landing is ultimately a disaster. It will be the start of an eight-month stalemate where thousands will lose their lives.
Three years in the making and screening over eight hours, Gallipoli is the definitive dramatisation of the battles that shaped the ANZAC legend.
"BENCHMARK TELEVISION" The Sydney Morning Herald
"A MEDITATION ON THE POETRY OF HORROR" The Guardian
2014-15
PUBERTY BLUES Series 1 & 2
SET UP / DIRECTOR | EPISODES 101, 103, 105, 106 / 201, 202, 207, 208, 209 (TEN / SHINE ENDERMOL)
Based on the book by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette
Written by Tony McNamara and Alice Bell, Produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks.
WINNER Best TelevisIon Drama 2013 AACTA AWARDS
"...DISTURBINGLY ILLUMINATES A CULTURE OF ADOLESCENCE THAT SEEMS NOT SO MUCH DATED AS DISTRESSINGLY CONTEMPORARY" THE AUSTRALIAN
"FLAWLESS!" HERALD SUN
2013
BEACONSFIELD
DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
Telemovie chronicling the 2009 Tasmanian Mining Distaster
Written by Judy McCrossin, Produced by John Edwards and Jane Liscombe.
WINNER BEST DIRECTION, TELEMOVIE 2012 ADG AWARDS
NOMINATED BEST TELEMOVIE 2012 AACTA AWARDS
"A COMPELLING DISPATCH FROM THAT NO-MANS LAND BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH... IT'S COMPLEX AND INSIGHTFUL FILMMAKING" THE AUSTRALIAN
2011
OFFSPRING
DIRECTOR | Series 1 EPISODES 105, 106
2009
LAST RIDE
DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
Feature film starring Hugo Weaving and Tom Russell.
Written by Mac Gudgeon, Produced by Nick Cole and Antonia Barnard.
"A masterpiece." Roger Ebert
WHEN HIS FATHER BUNDLES HIM INTO THE CAR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, TEN-YEAR-OLD CHOOK KNOWS SOMETHING IS WRONG.
As the two escape into the desert facing an unknown future, their troubled relationship and the need to survive sees them battling the elements and each other.
Both beautiful and harsh, Last Ride is a journey of heartbreak and hope. Hugo Weaving delivers a career-defining performance alongside newcomer Tom Russell. As Kev and Chook they reveal a complex and moving relationship in which friendship, betrayal, loyalty and love is portrayed with a raw and poetic urgency.
In taking the story from script to screen, Ivin sought to capture a sense of the experience of Kev and Chook by assembling a small crew and making a similar trip themselves. The six week shoot saw the cast and crew navigate over 5000kms of rough and remote country, allowing the journey to fuel the team's desire to capture the ever-changing landscape and the drama of the characters deepening predicament with a stunning yet truthful realism.
Last Ride's tension slowly burns to a powerful and redemptive climax. In the isolation and beauty of the desert, the shifting bonds between father and son proves that love runs deep.
2003
Cracker Bag
WRITTEN and DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
WINNER PALMe D'OR SHORT FILM CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2003
Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracker night. When it finally it arrives, Eddie and her family head to the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of her first crackerand experiences a pivotal moment, one of the seemingly small experiences of childhood, that affects us for the rest of our lives. Set in the 1980s, Cracker Bag is a gentle suburban observation which subtly reflects a disenchanting prelude to the coming of age.
1998
NEVERLAND
WRITTEN and DIRECTED by GLENDYN IVIN
Student documentary short about inner city bicycle couriers.
For Ron, 31, the freedom of the bicycle courier lifestyle has meant he’s never had to grow up. Eli, also 31, has stability through couriering, although he misses the punk lifestyle of his youth. Things are changing for them both.
Through accessing the subculture of inner-city bicycle couriers, Neverland explores the story of two ‘boys’, confronting the encroachment of adulthood.