Laurie McInnes

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Laurie McInnes
Born
Australia
OccupationCinematographer, 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]

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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 ]

Awards

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]

Selected filmography

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References

  1. 1 2 Nelson, Josh; Alex; Heller-Nicholas, ra (6 July 2017). "Into the Light: Hope, Despair and Haunted Doubles in Laurie McInnes's Broken Highway (1993)". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
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