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Australian film director
Ian Pringle is an
Australian film director, producer and screenwriter.
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Career
Pringle wrote and directed the Australian feature film,
Wrong World , which was nominated for the
Golden Bear at the
35th Berlin International Film Festival in 1985.
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His film
The Prisoner of St. Petersburg was screened in the
Un Certain Regard section at the
1989 Cannes Film Festival .
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Pringle's first feature film was
The Plains of Heaven (1982).
[5] In 1991 he directed the French-Australian co-production
Isabelle Eberhardt , starring
Peter O'Toole and
Mathilda May .
[6] Other film work includes co-producing the controversial neo-Nazi drama
Romper Stomper .
As of 2012 Pringle continues to work as a script consultant, lecturer and writer.
[7] After a 22-year absence he returned to writing and directing with his 2014 Australian feature film The Legend Maker , which premiered at the 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival.
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Select credits
Features
Shorts
Flights (1977) - director, writer
The Cartographer and the Waiter (1977) - director, writer
Wronsky (1979) - director, producer, writer
Songlines - Segment: "Romeos" (1989) - director
Lover Boy (1989) - associate producer - short feature
Documentaries
Bare Is His Back Who Has No Brother (1979) - director
Desiderius Orban (1981) - director
Islomania - (1985) - director, writer
References
^ John O'Hara, "The Films of Ian Pringle", Cinema Papers , February–March 1985 p16-21
^ Hunter Cordaiy, "Travels to the End of the Night: Ian Pringle and the Prisoner of S Petersburg", Cinema Papers , May 1989 p32-34
^
"Berlinale: 1985 Prize Winners" . berlinale.de . Retrieved 13 January 2011 .
^
"Festival de Cannes: The Prisoner of St. Petersburg" . festival-cannes.com . Retrieved 2 August 2009 .
^ Mark Stiles, "The Plains of Heaven: An interview with director Ian Pringle", Cinema Papers , March 1983 p26-29
^ Murray, Scott (December 1990). "Ian Pringle: In for the Long Haul".
Cinema Papers . pp. 6–13.
^
Biography at Script Central
Archived 15 March 2015 at the
Wayback Machine accessed 21 November 2012
^ Plater, Diana.
"The long-awaited return of filmmaker Ian Pringle" .
The Saturday Paper . Retrieved 14 October 2016 .
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