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Amanda Brotchie | |
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| Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | director, writer and linguist |
| Known for | Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Girlboss (2017), and Lowdown (2012). |
Amanda Brotchie, born in Melbourne, Victoria), is an Australian director known for Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Mr Black (2019), Girlboss (2017), and Lowdown (2010-2012). She is also a writer, producer and linguist.
Brotchie co-created the multi-award-winning series Lowdown (ABC, BBC 4), through the company High Wire Films, which she founded with producer, Nicole Minchin, and her husband, writer, producer and actor, Adam Zwar.[1][2][3]
Other TV shows Brotchie has directed include Picnic at Hanging Rock (Showcase, Amazon), Girlboss (Netflix), A Place to Call Home (Showcase, Acorn TV), The Letdown Series 2 (ABC,[4] Netflix), Squinters (ABC), and Mr Black (Network 10), created by Adam Zwar, which she wrote on and set up.[5]
Theatre credits include The Inner Sanctum, which she directed, and Headlock, which she wrote and directed, and which was nominated for a Green Room Award for Writing.[6]
Brotchie directed the multi-award-winning short film Break & Enter (1999). Her awards include an AFI award for Best Short Film, and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Short Film. Break & Enter screened at numerous international festivals and, rare for a short film, had a cinema release in Australia through Palace Cinemas, supporting Happy, Texas.
Brotchie has a PhD in linguistics, from the University of Melbourne.[7] In researching her PhD, she lived in a remote village on an island in Vanuatu, filming and documenting the local language and culture.[8]