A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Hips
Birthplace:
Melbourne, Australia
Born:
January 13, 1953
John Hipwell: Producer John Hipwell is one of Australia’s most versatile & experienced feature film producers with extensive credits on feature films (20), documentaries (16), TV and Cinema Commercials (86), corporate (110), video art (25), international co-productions and numerous short films. Trained at Victorian College of the Arts (Swinburne Campus) in film/TV productions in the early 70’s, his rights of passage were initiated on the early iconic films such as Alvin Purple, Snap Shot and Mad Max. He has eleven Producer credits on more recent Australian feature films including the Australian/Canadian co-production Sci-Fi feature film Arctic Blast (Co-Executive Producer) and the multi award winning Is This Real World, (Producer) 2015. His documentary KoHoNas (Producer), screened on SBS on November 11, 2009 and the Documentary Back to My Roots, (Producer) screened worldwide on BBC World News, 2010. Between 2014 and 2016, John produced two high end Indian TVC’s and three high end Corporate Productions for three separate USA Clients all in Australia. John Is currently developing his next feature film with three scripts in various stages of development/financing. John has received various film and TV awards for his documentary and feature film productions and his Video Art work is collected by public (Inc. ACMI, Australian Jewish Museum, Deakin University) and private collections (Aus. & Int.). John is included in many publications and broadcasts, has held various academic positions and is an active and successful mentor and lecturer. He was a board member of Arts and Recreation Training Victoria from 1989 to 1998 and was an energetic board member of Open Channel Co-operative Limited from 2008 to 2013.
Associate Producer:
1981 Lady, Stay Dead
Co-Producer:
1981 Lady, Stay Dead
1996 Point of No Return
Executive Producer:
1981 Lady, Stay Dead
1996 Point of No Return
2010 Arctic Blast
2022 Night and Wrong
Producer:
1981 Lady, Stay Dead
1996 Point of No Return
2010 Arctic Blast
2020 MUSHI 虫
2022 Night and Wrong
Second Assistant Director:
1979 Snapshot
1981 Lady, Stay Dead
1996 Point of No Return
2010 Arctic Blast
2020 MUSHI 虫
2022 Night and Wrong
Third Assistant Director:
1976 The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
1979 Snapshot
1981 Lady, Stay Dead
1996 Point of No Return
2010 Arctic Blast
2020 MUSHI 虫
2022 Night and Wrong
Unit Production Manager:
1976 The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
1979 Mad Max
1979 Snapshot
1981 Lady, Stay Dead
1996 Point of No Return
2010 Arctic Blast
2020 MUSHI 虫
2022 Night and Wrong
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.