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Matthew Saville

Alias:
Matt Saville

Birthplace:
South Australia, Australia

Biography from TheMovieDB

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Matthew Saville is an Australian television and film director, who began his career working as a titles designer for many Australian television series. Several of his short films, including Franz and Kafka have received awards and screened widely at film festivals.  Matthew Saville came to wider prominence as a writer/director with his one hour film Roy Hollsdotter Live, a bittersweet comedy about a stand-up comedian experiencing a personal breakdown. The film won awards at the Sydney Film Festival in 2003, as well as at the Australian Writers' Guild Awards.  The success of that film led, among other things, to a highly successful career as a television comedy director, including the acclaimed Big Bite and We Can Be Heroes, on both occasions working with Chris Lilley.  In addition, Matthew Saville has directed episodes of the Australian television drama series The Secret Life of Us as well as directing the first three episodes of The Surgeon.  In 2007 Saville's feature film debut Noise was released, for which he received an AFI nomination for Best Director. In 2010 he began directing Cloudstreet, a television miniseries version of Tim Winton's novel.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Saville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
1997  Franz & Kafka
2004  Roy Hollsdotter Live
2005  We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year
2007  Noise
2007  The King
2014  A Writer and Three Script Editors Walk Into a Bar
2014  Felony
2016  A Month of Sundays
????  Sweetheart

Producer:
1997  Franz & Kafka
2004  Roy Hollsdotter Live
2005  We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year
2007  Noise
2007  The King
2014  A Writer and Three Script Editors Walk Into a Bar
2014  Felony
2016  A Month of Sundays
????  Sweetheart

Screenplay:
1997  Franz & Kafka
2004  Roy Hollsdotter Live
2005  We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year
2007  Noise
2007  The King
2014  A Writer and Three Script Editors Walk Into a Bar
2014  Felony
2016  A Month of Sundays
????  Sweetheart

Writer:
1997  Franz & Kafka
2004  Roy Hollsdotter Live
2005  We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year
2007  Noise
2007  The King
2014  A Writer and Three Script Editors Walk Into a Bar
2014  Felony
2016  A Month of Sundays
????  Sweetheart

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TV Production

Creator:
2019  Upright

Director:
2005  The Surgeon
2005  We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year
2008  East of Everything
2009  Tangle
2011  Cloudstreet
2011  The Slap
2013  Please Like Me
2017  Friday on My Mind
2017  Seven Types of Ambiguity
2019  Upright

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