Laurie McInnes | |
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Born | Australia |
Occupation(s) | Cinematographer, director |
Laurie McInnes is an Australian writer, director, and cinematographer known for art films like Broken Highway and Dogwatch. Her work has been compared to Jim Jarmusch's. [1]
McInnes has said that she grew up a lonely child who was bad at school, and she channeled those early feelings (the "ghosts" of her childhood) into her debut feature, Broken Highway. [2]
Although her last effort as a director was with 1999's Dogwatch, she's continued to be active in the Australian film industry, working as a second-unit director and cinematographer for films like Look Both Ways and Night.[ citation needed]
Broken Highway—McInnes' breakthrough film—was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1993, but it lost to Jane Campion's The Piano. [1] [3] It was nominated for five AFI awards that year. Her earlier short, Palisade, won the top prize at Cannes in 1987. [4]