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Filmmaker. Elissa Down is an Australian filmmaker, who in 1999 and 2000, was nominated for Young Film-maker of the year at the WA Screen Awards. Her major works are 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.
Elissa Down. Director: Feel the Beat. Elissa Down is known for Feel the Beat (2020), The Black Balloon (2008) and The Honor List (2018).
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Dec 5, 2008 · The Black Balloon. LUKE FORD AND RHYS WAKEFIELD IN WRITER-DIRECTOR ELISSA DOWN’S THE BLACK BALLOON. COURTESY NEOCLASSICS FILMS. Since she was very young, Elissa Down has been honing her skills as a director. Admittedly, it wasn’t strictly conscious when she was writing, acting in and masterminding little drama projects as a kid growing up ...
Elissa is also writing and developing a number of projects that she’s set to direct; the Muay Thai drama, Rising Ash, inspired by the true story of Australian fighter Amy Birch, a bio-pic of the infamous Third Reich director, Leni Riefenstahl, Scarred, an adaptation of the novel Skin Deep by Laura Jarrett, as well as The Tempest for the Shakespeare Now series for Hoodlum and Lucky Chap.
Dec 5, 2008 · By Stephen Holden. Dec. 4, 2008. Would you be able to cope? That is the unspoken challenge laid down by “The Black Balloon,” a harrowing, unsentimental portrait of a middle-class Australian...
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Bio. Contact. Feel The Beat. The Black Balloon. The Honor List. Lionsgate 2018. Confess. The official website of writer/director, Elissa Down (The Black Balloon, The Honor List, Confess).
Elissa Down is an Australian filmmaker, who in 1999 and 2000, was nominated for Young Film-maker of the year at the WA Screen Awards.
