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- When he was three years old, the family moved to Australia, where he grew up in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. [ 2 ]
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Alexander Proyas was born in Alexandria (then in the United Arab Republic and now in Egypt) on 23 September 1963, the son of a Greek Cypriot mother and a father from Egypt whose Greek ancestors had moved to Egypt many generations ago. [1]
Born to Greek parents in Egypt, Proyas relocated to Australia with his family when he was three years old. He began making films at age ten and went on to attend the Australian Film Television and Radio School along with Jane Campion and Jocelyn Moorhouse.
- September 23, 1963
Born to Greek parents in Egypt, Proyas relocated to Australia with his family when he was three years old. He began making films at age ten and went on to attend the Australian Film Television and Radio School along with Jane Campion and Jocelyn Moorhouse.
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When he was three years old, the family moved to Australia, where he grew up in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. He grew up on a housing estate where the main tenants were fellow immigrants and Indigenous Australians, with whom he felt a kinship because they were all often subjected to racism by white Australians.
In the first part of our three-part interview, I spoke with Alex about what films affected him the most growing up, how he began making films and music videos, his under-seen debut SPIRITS OF THE AIR, GREMLINS OF THE CLOUDS (1989), moving to L.A., and the genesis and making of the cult classic THE CROW.
Aug 25, 2021 · Legendary film director Alex Proyas famous for his iconoclastic films “The Crow”, “Dark City” and “I Robot”, discusses his work during the lockdowns, murder of culture and xenophobia in Australia, plagiarism of his films by mainstream Hollywood and censorship.
Apr 22, 2024 · Alex Proyas: No, but I did come to the see the studios years and years ago. It just didn’t work out. Nick: It has seemed like over the last few years that Australia, but South East Queensland in particular has been an ever growing hub for filmmaking. We’ve seen a large variety of productions.
