Michael Rowe (director)

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Michael Rowe (born 1971 in Ballarat, Australia) is an Australian film director and screenwriter.

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Rowe studied English post-colonial literature at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. His artistic career first began as a poet, winning the Melbourne Fringe Festival Poetry Prize. He then moved to theatre and wrote three plays. In 1994, at the age of 23, he traveled to Mexico and made it his adoptive home. [1] In 1998, while in Mexico, he began a career as a journalist while studying screenwriting at a Vincente Leñero workshop. In 2005, one of his first scripts, Naturalezas muertas won at the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. In 2006, he directed his first short film, Cacahuates . Silencio followed in 2007. Though English is his native language, the bulk of his film work is done in Spanish. [2]

In 2010, Rowe directed Año bisiesto (Leap Year) , which garnered him the Caméra d'Or prize for best first time feature film director at the Cannes Film Festival. [3] [4] The film was well received by critics. [5]

His follow-up film, The Well ( Manto acuífero ) premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2013. [6]

In 2013, it was announced that Rowe was working on his English-language feature debut slated for production in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [7] The film, Early Winter , is a co-production between a Quebec production house, Possibles Media, [8] (run by Serge Noël), and Australia's Freshwater Pictures (run by Trish Lake), and stars Suzanne Clément. The film had a first cut shown at the Melbourne film festival where it was reviewed, but the official international premiere of the director's cut was at the Venice Mostra where it won the Venice Days Award for 2015.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Les secrets de tournage du film Année Bissextile".
  2. ↑ "Possibles Media | Cinema | Realisateurs | Rowe".
  3. ↑ "Aussie scoops Camera d'Or in Cannes", Sydney Morning Herald , 24 May 2010.
  4. ↑ Tobias, Scott (23 June 2011). "Leap Year (2011) (review)". AV Club. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Leap Year". Rotten Tomatoes .
  6. ↑ Jay Weissberg, "Film Review: ‘The Well’", Variety , 11 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "Director Rowe gets ready for Rest Home", if.com.au, 14 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "Possibles Media | Cinema | Co Production | Early Winter".
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