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
Known For
Complete Filmography

Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible
2018
as Himself
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
2017
as Self
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
2014
Director, Producer
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
2011
Director, Producer
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
2008
as Self
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
2003
Director
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

Levity
2003
Executive Producer
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
2001
Director, Screenplay
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
2001
Thanks
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
1997
Director
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.
1994
Director, Producer
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
1993
Director, Producer
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
1992
Director
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
1990
Director, Producer
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investiga...

Evil Angels
1988
Director, Screenplay
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
1987
Director
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
1986
Thanks
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
1985
Director
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
1984
Director
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
1982
Director
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
1978
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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
1977
Director, Writer, Producer
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
1973
Director
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
1970
as Himself
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
1969
Director
An advertising film with a difference: Into a strange computerised future where women “run things” by controlling huge colourful computers that go ble...