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Biography. Screenwriter, director, cinematographer. An Indigenous Australian filmmaker who grew up in the New South Wales country towns of Tamworth and Inverell, Ivan Sen is a descendant of the Gamilaroi and Bigambal language groups of northwest New South Wales and southern Queensland. He also is of Hungarian, German and Croatian descent.
Jun 9, 2016 · Like the central character in his new film Goldstone, Indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen sometimes feels caught between the white world and the black world. Goldstone, which opened the Sydney Film ...
In 2008, David Jowsey formed BUNYA Productions with auteur filmmaker Ivan Sen. David produced Toomelah by Ivan Sen, selected in Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2011. David produced the 2011 Sundance selected feature Mad Bastards by Brendan Fletcher and Satellite Boy by Catriona McKenzie which premiered at Toronto 2012 and Berlin 2013.
Nov 15, 2023 · Ivan Sen returned to AFTRS for a special screening of his latest feature Limbo and a live Q&A sharing a breakdown of his ‘script to screen’ process.These are...
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Mar 21, 2024 · Limbo — Ivan Sen March 21, 2024 Part of a generation of First Nations filmmakers that also includes Rachel Perkins ( Radiance, Bran Nue Dae ), Warwick Thornton ( Samson and Delilah, Sweet Country, The New Boy ) and Wayne Blaire ( The Sapphires, Top End Wedding ), Gamilaroi filmmaker Ivan Sen has, for over two decades, been an important figure in Australian cinema.
Jun 5, 2023 · Known locally and internationally on the big screen and weekly viewing, Ivan Sen draws out the visual beauty of this country to the expansive Indigenous stor...
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Indigenous Australian film director Ivan Sen is renowned for his depiction of magnificent screen landscapes. In Limbo, he juxtaposes the low sky with the mounds above and holes below ground around the opal-mining capital of Coober Pedy. The result is a serene “desert noir” that is as convincing as a detective story as it is a subtle ...
