About

Known credits:
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Birthday:
1975-07-02
Place of birth:
Camden, New South Wales, Australia
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Elissa Down

Overview

Elissa Down is an Australian filmmaker. In 1999 and 2000 Elissa was nominated for Young Film-maker of the year at the WA Screen Awards.

Her major works comprise of a number of award winning short films, Summer Angst, The Cherry Orchard, Her Outback, The Bathers, Pink Pyjamas, HMAS Unicorn and Samantha Stewart, aged fourteen. They have been screened at numerous festivals including Tampere, Locarno Aix-en-Provence, Montecatini, Milan, San Francisco Indie, St Kilda, Brisbane, Revelation, Women on Women, POV and Tropfest. These shorts have also been screened in theatres and broadcast nationally and overseas. Elissa was one of Australia's upcoming artists featured in the In Progress spread in Vogue (2005).

Elissa Down's first feature film, the semi-autobiographical, The Black Balloon was released in Australian cinemas 6 March 2008. It stars Rhys Wakefield, Gemma Ward, Luke Ford, Erik Thomson and Academy Award Nominee Toni Collette. The world premiere was at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany in February 2008, where the film received a Crystal Bear as the best feature-length film in the Generation 14plus category.  On 6 December 2008 Elissa Down was awarded the AFI Best DIrection in Film Award and AFI Best Original Screenplay Award for the Black Balloon. The film also won the L'Oreal Paris AFI Award for Best FIlm.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Curtin University.

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Known for

Directing
2023 While the Men are Away Directing Director 68
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2022 Ivy + Bean: Doomed to Dance Directing Director 59
Average
2022 Ivy + Bean Directing Director 59
Average
2022 Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go Directing Director 59
Average
2020 Feel the Beat Directing Director 70
Good
2018 The Honor List Directing Director 59
Average
2017 Confess Directing Director 71
Good
2008 The Black Balloon Directing Director 60
Fair
2001 HMAS Unicorn Directing Director N/A
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2001 Pink Pyjamas Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2017 Confess Writing Writer 71
Good
2008 The Black Balloon Writing Writer 60
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2001 Pink Pyjamas Writing Writer N/A
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