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Amiel Courtin-Wilson is an Australian filmmaker. He has directed over 20 short films and several feature films. His debut feature film, Hail, premiered internationally at Venice Film Festival in 2011. He is also a musician, music producer, and visual artist.

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Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Amiel Coutin-Wilson at the 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam
Born	Melbourne

Early life and education

Amiel Courtin-Wilson was born and raised in Melbourne.[1] His parents Peter Wilson and Polly Courtin are both artists.[2]

He made his first film at age nine years old, and attended Elwood College, a state secondary school, from 1992 to 1997.^{[citation needed]}

Career

At the age of 17, Courtin-Wilson won the Longford Nova Award at the 1996 St Kilda Film Festival for his co-directed half-hour documentary Almost 18. At 19, Courtin-Wilson wrote, directed and produced his debut feature documentary Chasing Buddha, about his aunt Robina Courtin, a Buddhist nun. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2000 and won best documentary at the IF Awards and the Sydney Film Festival.[3][4]

Since the beginning of his career Courtin-Wilson has been involved in the Australian arts, directing work for Opera Australia and Chunky Move, screening his films at the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales and exhibiting as a visual artist.[5] Courtin-Wilson's co-directed documentary Islands, about second-generation Samoan Australians, premiered at the Museum of Natural History, New York.^{[citation needed]}

Courtin-Wilson has contributed to national and international film and art magazines and has lectured at universities across Australia as well as overseas. In 2008 Amiel formed a Melbourne-based production entity called Flood Projects, with the aim of fostering "collectivist and artist-driven film making practice in Australia".[6]

Courtin-Wilson's second feature documentary, Bastardy, about Indigenous actor and then petty burglar Jack Charles, was released in Australia in 2009.[7] The film won Best Documentary Jury Prize at the 2009 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Documentary at the ATOM Awards and was nominated for three AACTA Awards.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012 Courtin-Wilson directed film sequences that featured in the East Timorese theatre production Doku Rai.[8] Doku Rai premiered at Darwin and Adelaide Festivals before being shown at Brisbane Festival the same year.

Courtin-Wilson co-directed the 2013 film Ruin with Michael Cody. Ruin was selected for the Venice Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize.[9]

Courtin-Wilson directed The Silent Eye (2016), which premiered at the Whitney Museum in 2016 and screened at several film festivals and museums.^[when?] In the same year, Courtin-Wilson exhibited his moving-image work Charles at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. The work won the annual Award for Digital Portraiture.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020 Courtin-Wilson created a moving-image work called Burn, as well as a feature-length film Eden Eden Eden at 50 about the novel by French author Pierre Guyotat.^{[citation needed]}

His feature documentary Man on Earth is due for release in 2022, following its world premiere at Sheffield DocFest, along with his feature-length thermal imaging documentary Traces.^{[citation needed]}

Courtin-Wilson has executive produced several films.^{[citation needed]}

Courtin-Wilson is a member of Badfaith, a virtual reality collective of video artists.^{[citation needed]}

Films

Hail

Courtin-Wilson's feature film debut Hail premiered internationally at the Venice Film Festival. The film explores the relationship between ex-prisoner Daniel P. Jones and his longterm partner Leanne Letch.[10] It screened at over thirty festivals around the world including Rotterdam, Istanbul, Karlovy Vary and Munich, and won several awards.^{[citation needed]}

Ruin

Courtin-Wilson's Ruin (2013) won the Special Jury Prize at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival, best cinematography at the Moscow International Film Festival, Best Editing at the Asia Pacific Film Festival, Best Film at the Sopot International Film Festival in 2015, and Best Direction at the 2014 Fantasporto International Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Man on Earth

Man on Earth (2022) follows Bob, a 65-year-old man who has decided to end his life due to Parkinson's Disease. The film was listed as one of Sheffield DocFest's top 10 films.[11] Man on Earth premiered at Sheffield DocFest and was part of Melbourne International Film Festival's 2022 official selection.[12]

Art

Courtin-Wilson is a visual artist under the pseudonym Oxo Ovo. He has had solo exhibitions at Utopian Slumps Gallery in Melbourne (2009) and the Gertrude Contemporary Art Space (2015).^{[citation needed]}

Awards and nominations

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• 2000 Sundance International Film Festival – Official Selection Chasing Buddha
• 2000 Sydney Film Festival – Winner Rouben Mamoulian Award for Chasing Buddha
• 2000 Sydney Film Festival – Winner Dendy Award Best Documentary for Chasing Buddha
• 2000 IF Awards – Winner Best Australian Documentary, Nominated Best Director for Chasing Buddha
• 2009 Directors' Fortnight Cannes Film Festival – Official Selection Quinzine des Realisateurs Cicada
• 2009 St Kilda Film Festival – Winner SBS Television Award for Cicada
• 2009 Australian Film Critics Circle – Winner Best Documentary Jury Prize for Bastardy
• 2009 ATOM Awards – Winner Best Documentary Human Story for Bastardy
• 2009 Australian Film Institute Awards – Nominated for Best Documentary, Best Direction, Best Editing for Bastardy[13]
• 2009 Sydney Film Festival – Nominated Best Documentary for Bastardy
• 2009 Asia Pacific Awards – Nominated Best Documentary for Bastardy
• 2010 Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival – Official Selection Cicada[14]
• 2010 FIFO International Documentary Film Festival – Winner Grand Jury Prize for Bastardy
• 2011 68th Venice International Film Festival (Orrizonti) – Official Competition Hail[15]
• 2012 Fantasia International Film Festival – Winner Sequence Jury Prize Best International for Hail[16]
• 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival – Winner Age Critics Award Best Australian Feature for Hail[17]
• 2015 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) awards – Winner Byron Kennedy Award for outstanding creative enterprise in film and television[18]
• 2017 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) awards – Nominated Best Indie Film AACTA Award
• 2017 Film Critics Circle of Australia – Nominated for Best Film
• 2017 Australian Film Critics Association – Nominated for Best Film
• 2018 Harlem International Film Festival – Winner Best Experimental Film

Filmography

Feature films

• Carnation (2022) writer, director, producer, editor
• Friends and Strangers (2021) executive producer
• Eden Eden Eden at 50 (2020) executive producer
• Strange Colours (2017) executive producer
• Ruin (2013) co-writer, co-director, co-producer (with Michael Cody)
• Hail (2011) writer, director, producer, co-editor

Feature documentary films

• Man On Earth (2022) director, producer, editor
• The Silent Eye (2016) director, producer, editor
• Catch My Disease (2011) director, cinematographer, producer, editor
• Bastardy (2009) writer, director, producer, cinematographer
• Chasing Buddha (1999) writer, director, producer

Short films

• Grace (2020)
• Tag (2010)
• Cicada (2009 short documentary)
• On the Other Ocean (2006)
• Adolescent (2003)
• Stranglefilm (2001)
• & It’s POLITIkAL (2001 short documentary)
• Melbourne 2:36AM (2001)
• Persona in the Home (2001 short documentary)
• Islands (2000 short documentary)
• Re:constitution (2000 short documentary)
• Cosmonaut (1998)
• Mix Master Mike – Live (1998 music clip)
• Living with Mental Illness (1998)
• Avalanches ‘Rolling High’ (1997 music clip)
• Bubble Choke Squeak (1997)
• Charlie’s Toy Meets Madeline Moritz (1995)
• Numb (1995)

VR work

• Grace (2020)

Video installations

• The Silent Eye (2016) writer, director, producer
• The Nerve Meter (2015) writer, director, producer

References

External links

• Amiel Courtin-Wilson at IMDb
• Hail at IMDb
• Cicada on Youtube

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