Melbourne independent filmmakers

Melbourne
independent
filmmakers

a website devoted to
indie filmmakers
in Melbourne, Australia

The aim of this website is to provide some documentation about the various independent filmmakers (note: directors only) that have existed, and exist now, in Melbourne, working separately to the commerical film industry. I classify a filmmaker as "independent" if they have shown an individual spirit and committed attitude to realising their particular cinematic vision, especially if without official financial support. Long live the creative, individual spirit on show here! - Bill Mousoulis

Dedicated to
Giorgio Mangiamele
and all the others
now departed:

Paul Cox

Solrun Hoaas

Anna Kannava

Mark Zenner

Dirk de Bruyn running an expanded cinema show

Top 50 Australian independent films
Bill Mousoulis' personal list of the best Aus indie films ever.

Top 50 Australian independent film heroes
The people behind the scenes who have promoted Aus indie film.

DIRECTORIES of indie filmmakers in Australia:
Melbourne / Sydney
Adelaide / other Australian

New profiles released May 2024:
Perri Cummings / Koraly Dimitriadis / Brian Kavanagh /
Peter Leiss / Paul Anthony Nelson
Lee Smith / Simon Strong

New profiles - May 2024

	Perri Cummings	Koraly Dimitriadis	Brian Kavanagh

	Peter Leiss	Paul Anthony Nelson

	Lee Smith	Simon Strong

Profiles of Melbourne indie filmmakers

	Luigi Acquisto	Stephen Amis	Ray Argall

	Genevieve Bailey	Mischa Baka	Mark Bakaitis

	Steven Ball	Nic Barker	Sarah Barton

	Marcus Bergner	Leo Berkeley	Angie Black

	David Black	Heinz Boeck	Iain Bonner

	Philip Brophy	Barry Brown	Anna Brownfield

	Michael Buckley	Nigel Buesst	Remo Camerota

	Arthur & Corinne Cantrill	Hanna Chetwin	James Clayden

	Matthew Clayfield	Fiona Cochrane	Amiel Courtin-Wilson

	Tom Cowan	David Cox	Paul Cox

	Marie Craven	John Cumming	Perri Cummings

	Julian Dahl	Dirk de Bruyn	Daryl Dellora

	Koraly Dimitriadis	Ian Dixon	Sotiris Dounoukos

	Paul Fletcher	Maggie Fooke	Dean Francis

	Ivan Gaal	Kieran Galvin	Darcy Gladwin

	George Goularas	Jarrah Gurrie	Christina Heristanidis

	Jon Hewitt	Nathan Hill	Solrun Hoaas

	Colin Hodson	Robert Hoskin	James Howard

	Zev Howley	Frank Howson	John Hughes

	Siobhan Jackson	Clayton Jacobson	Paul Jeffery

	Moira Joseph	sue.k.	Anna Kannava

	Michael Karris	Brian Kavanagh	Tom Kazas

	Amanda Kerley	David King	Chris Knowles

	Ana Kokkinos	Perry Laird	Audrey Lam

	Mark La Rosa	Anthony Lawrence	Michael Lee

	Peter Leiss	Christos Linou	Mark Lipkin

	Chris Löfvén	Richard Lowenstein	Ivan Malekin

	Giorgio Mangiamele	Madeleine Martiniello	Katrina Mathers

	Erin M McCuskey	Tom McEvoy	Brian McKenzie

	Grant Meredith	Andrew Merlino	Kim Miles

	Bill Mousoulis	Nicholas Nedelkopoulos	Paul Anthony Nelson

	Michael Nicholson	Matt Norman	Andrew O'Keefe

	Nick Ostrovskis	Gregory Pakis	Don Parham

	Matthew Victor Pastor	Irene Proebsting	Matthew Rees

	Christine Rogers	Matthew Rooke	Angelo Salamanca

	Saidin Salkic	Mark Savage	Monique Schwarz

	Ettore Siracusa	Lee Smith	Timothy Spanos

	Ben Speth	Jim Stamatakos	Simon Strong

	Peter Tammer	Dia Taylor	Glenn Triggs

	Alkinos Tsilimidos	Richard Tuohy	Dennis Tupicoff

	Jason Turley	Philip Tyndall	Guy Tyzack

	Andrew Vial	Tom Vogel	Campbell Walker

	Georgia Wallace-Crabbe	Andrew Walsh	Jamie Wilson

	Chris Windmill	Richard Wolstencroft	Nicola Woolmington

	Shannon Young	Mark Zenner	Janos Zoltan

Bill Mousoulis' website (since 2018)
on Australian independent film

Indie film screenings (since 2018), featuring many
Melbourne independent filmmakers

Melbourne independent filmmakers is compiled by Bill Mousoulis

HISTORY OF WEBSITE / NUMBER OF PROFILES:

This website was launched in May 2003, with profiles of 28 directors. 7 more profiles were added in September of that year. A further 9 profiles were added in June 2004, and a further 13 in April 2005. 8 more were then added in March 2006, 11 in May 2008, 10 in May 2009, 4 in May 2010, 10 in March 2014, 4 in November 2015, 5 in December 2017, 6 in March 2019, 9 in March 2020, 5 in May 2021, and 7 in May 2024, making 136 in total. (Note - 1 is currently hidden.) All the profiles are/will also be kept up to date (as much as possible, with the co-operation of the filmmakers, etc.)

The next instalment will be in 2025 or 2026. If you would like to nominate a filmmaker to be profiled here, email Bill Mousoulis.

This site is archived by the National Library of Australia's Pandora Archive.

Acknowledgments to these people for providing some assistance in the creation of this site: Ken Berryman at the National Film and Sound Archive; Tilly Heald, Carole Sklan and Lawrence Johnston at the Australian Film Commission (now Screen Australia); Arthur Cantrill; Graeme Cutts and Rosemary Mangiamele; Cerise Howard; Adrian Martin; Mike Retter.