Elissa Down

Elissa Down

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elissa Down, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Elissa Down
  • Popularity: 0.706
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1975-07-02
  • Place of Birth: Camden, New South Wales, Australia
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Elissa Down Movies

  • 2008
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    The Black Balloon

    The Black Balloon

    6.488 2008 HD

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  • 2001
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    Pink Pyjamas

    Pink Pyjamas

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2022
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    Ivy + Bean

    Ivy + Bean

    6.7 2022 HD

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  • 2022
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    Ivy + Bean: Doomed to Dance

    Ivy + Bean: Doomed to Dance

    7.4 2022 HD

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  • 2022
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    Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go

    Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go

    7 2022 HD

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  • 2001
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    HMAS Unicorn

    HMAS Unicorn

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2018
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    The Honor List

    The Honor List

    6.1 2018 HD

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  • 2001
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    Pink Pyjamas

    Pink Pyjamas

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Black Balloon

    The Black Balloon

    6.488 2008 HD

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  • 2020
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    Feel the Beat

    Feel the Beat

    7.587 2020 HD

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  • 1970
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    Auburn Reed is determined to put her challenging past behind her and get her future on track. Now in her mid-twenties and struggling to fund her...

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  • 1970
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    8 1970 HD

    Auburn Reed is determined to put her challenging past behind her and get her future on track. Now in her mid-twenties and struggling to fund her...

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    4.7 1970 HD

    While the men are away fighting in WWII, two Women’s Land Army recruits join an Italian immigrant, her Indigenous domestic, and their...

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  • 1970
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    8 1970 HD

    Auburn Reed is determined to put her challenging past behind her and get her future on track. Now in her mid-twenties and struggling to fund her...

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