Andrew Mackie | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Film distributor, producer, author |
| Years active | 2008–present |
Andrew Mackie is an Australian film distributor, producer and author. He is a co-founder of Australian film distribution company Transmission Films along with Richard Payten. [1] [2]
Mackie founded the Australian film distribution company Transmission Films with Richard Payten in 2008. [3] Prior to Transmission Mackie and Payten were joint general managers of Dendy Films and The Globe Film Co. [4] [5] He and Payten have released over 180 films generating over $400 million at the box office. Films Mackie has acquired and distributed have won 9 Palme d’Ors, been nominated for 51 Academy Awards and received over 220 AACTA nominations. As a film distributor he has released films such as The King's Speech, Lion, Amour, Samson & Delilah, The Railway Man, Calvary, Shame, Ride Like A Girl and many more. [6]
As a producer he has executive produced a number of films including Ride Like A Girl directed by Rachel Griffiths, Holding the Man directed by Neil Armfield, Mary & Max directed by Adam Elliot, Candy directed by Neil Armfield, The Eye of the Storm directed by Fred Schepisi, Tracks directed by John Curran, the UK/Australian co-production Oyster Farmer directed by Anna Reeves, On Chesil Beach directed by Dominic Cooke, Sweet Country directed by Warwick Thornton and Strangerland directed by Kim Farrant starring Nicole Kidman. [7]
Mackie and Payten were also founding partners in See-Saw Films, the Oscar-winning UK/Australian production company behind The King's Speech and Shame . [8]
In 2012 and 2013, The Australian , an Australian newspaper named Andrew Mackie as one of the most influential people in the Australian arts. In 2003 Mackie was named as one of The Hollywood Reporter 's Next Gen Under 35 executives. [9]
Mackie is a current board member of Screen Canberra and the Adelaide Film Festival. [10]
In 2021 his first novel, The Tour, was published by Penguin Random House Australia. [11]
Chesil Beach in Dorset, England is one of three major shingle beach structures in Britain. Its name is derived from the Old English ceosel or cisel, meaning "gravel" or "shingle". It runs for a length of 29 kilometres (18 mi) from West Bay to the Isle of Portland and in places is up to 15 metres (50 ft) high and 200 metres (660 ft) wide. Behind the beach is the Fleet, a shallow tidal lagoon. Both are part of the Jurassic Coast and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and together form an SSSI and Ramsar Site.
Delilah is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. She is loved by Samson, a Nazirite who possesses great strength and serves as the final Judge of Israel. Delilah is bribed by the lords of the Philistines to discover the source of his strength. After three failed attempts at doing so, she finally goads Samson into telling her that his vigor is derived from his hair. As he sleeps, Delilah orders a servant to cut Samson's hair, thereby enabling her to turn him over to the Philistines.
The Wild is a 2006 computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by animator Steve "Spaz" Williams and written by Ed Decter, John J. Strauss, Mark Gibson and Philip Halprin. It features the voices of Eddie Izzard, Kiefer Sutherland, Janeane Garofalo, Jim Belushi, Richard Kind, Greg Cipes, and William Shatner.
Luke Davies is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction and the screenplay for the film Lion, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Davies also co-wrote the screenplay for the film News of the World.
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Rosalba Neri is a retired Italian actress.
Samson and Delilah is a German/Italian/American television film that was first shown on TNT in the United States. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg and broadcast December 8, 1996.
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Warwick Thornton is an Australian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. His debut feature film Samson and Delilah won the Caméra d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the award for Best Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. He also won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Film in 2017 for Sweet Country.
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See-Saw Films is a British-Australian film and television production company founded in 2008 by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, with offices in London and Sydney. Their productions include The King's Speech, Top Of The Lake, Lion, The Power of the Dog and the British teen series Heartstopper.
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