Fred Schepisi

Fred Schepisi

1939-12-26 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 25 Credits

Biography

Frederic Alan Schepisi AO (born 26 December 1939) is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fred Schepisi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible

Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible

2018

as Himself

7.4
Acting

With credits including Strictly Ballroom, Muriel’s Wedding, The Dish, Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet and Road to Perdition Jill Bilcock is regarded as ...

Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing

Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing

2017

as Self

Acting

Australian film editor Jill Bilcock is one of the world's most sought after film editors, having edited beloved films such as STRICTLY BALLROOM, ROMEO...

Words and Pictures

Words and Pictures

2014

Director, Producer

6.4
Directing Producing

An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pict...

The Eye of the Storm

The Eye of the Storm

2011

Director, Producer

5.0
Directing Producing

In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir B...

Not Quite Hollywood

Not Quite Hollywood

2008

as Self

6.9
Acting

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...

It Runs in the Family

It Runs in the Family

2003

Director

6.0
Directing

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

Levity

Levity

2003

Executive Producer

6.2
Producing

Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at h...

Last Orders

Last Orders

2001

Director, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watchi...

Mallboy

Mallboy

2001

Thanks

5.0

A boy climbs an unsteady path to adulthood under difficult circumstances in this drama from Australia. Shaun (Kane McNay) is a teenager growing up in ...

Fierce Creatures

Fierce Creatures

1997

Director

6.2
Directing

Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep ...

I.Q.

I.Q.

1994

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

Six Degrees of Separation

Six Degrees of Separation

1993

Director, Producer

6.4
Directing Producing

The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-cl...

Mr. Baseball

Mr. Baseball

1992

Director

5.8
Directing

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one ...

The Russia House

The Russia House

1990

Director, Producer

6.1
Directing Producing

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investiga...

Evil Angels

Evil Angels

1988

Director, Screenplay

6.7
Directing Writing

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take ...

Roxanne

Roxanne

1987

Director

6.4
Directing

In this modern take on Edmond Rostand's classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac," C. D. Bales is the witty, intelligent, and brave fire chief of a small Paci...

Dogs in Space

Dogs in Space

1986

Thanks

6.0

The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a ...

Plenty

Plenty

1985

Director

5.7
Directing

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Iceman

Iceman

1984

Director

6.1
Directing

A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befrie...

Barbarosa

Barbarosa

1982

Director

5.9
Directing

Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbaro...

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.8
Directing Writing Producing

The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrif...

The Devil's Playground

The Devil's Playground

1977

Director, Writer, Producer

6.6
Directing Writing Producing

A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid disci...

Libido

Libido

1973

Director

4.2
Directing

Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires ex...

The Naked Bunyip

The Naked Bunyip

1970

as Himself

5.7
Acting

A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transves...

A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

A Hundred-Odd Years from Now

1969

Director

Directing

An advertising film with a difference: Into a strange computerised future where women “run things” by controlling huge colourful computers that go ble...