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** John Hillcoat was born in Australia in 1960 and was raised in America,Canada and Europe. Abandoning a career in Fine Arts, he returned to enroll at the Melbourne Film School, Swinburne, in 1979. There he produced two celebrated shorts -- THE BLONDE'S DATE WITH DEATH and FRANKIE AND JOHNNY -- which were screened internationally in a showcase of Australian film talent.
Throughout the early to mid 1980's, he directed and edited music videos for a variety of artists, including INXS and Nick Cave. Several of these have won international awards.
In 1984 he began correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, author of the prison best seller, "In the Belly of the Beast." This led to three and a half years of research into the maximum security prisons of America and Australia. Out of his work came his first feature film as a writer and director of GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD. After much critical praise throughout Europe, Japan and Australia, the film has been theatrically released,screened on television and released on video in three countries.
Besides Nick Cave and INXS, John has directed music videos for a wide variety of other artists including Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Wolfgang Press, Einsturzende Neubauten, Frente and Crowded House.
His work has gained the admiration of many established film people as diverse as Peter Weir,Wim Wenders, Hector Babenko, Michel Ciment,Derek Malcom, and the late Richard Roud.
His most recent film, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, was finished in June and screened at Cannes, to an enthusiastic crowd. It is presently released in Australia and Spain, with plans to be released in England and America very shortly.
Meanwhile, John has returned to directing music videos while developing new projects in England.
** This biography is taken from the Oil Factory film company web site located at-- http://www.oilfactory.com/
The specific address for this biography is--
http://www.oilfactory.com/directors/hillcoat.html |
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| Review of the 1996 Cannes film festival.
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| A thorough review that recognises the talent of Johnston and his supporting artistic crew in making a compelling story of love, friendship and sacrifice rath...[full record]
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