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Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker. He is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer, as well as an editor, composer, and sound designer. He is co-founder and director of Bunya Productions, and known for the 2013 film Mystery Road, its sequel Goldstone (2016), and the 2023 mystery-crime film Limbo.
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- 'Doesn't Feel Like He Belongs'
- Wearing Many Hats
- 'I'm A Bit Past The Sadness'
- Falling in Love with Film
In Goldstone, Indigenous detective Jay Swan is a man caught between two worlds. Sen said this was something he related to. "He's doing a job where he's having to deal with the white world and the black world and he doesn't really feel like he belongs to either," Sen said. "But in Goldstone, he gets a chance to actually reclaim his identity and his ...
This is Sen's fourth feature film and he has again taken on the roles of director, writer, cinematographer and composer. "I find filmmaking like painting. I find it a very personal and intimate thing, and it's almost like dipping your brush into different paints on the pallet and deciding where to put that colour," he said. "I started filmmaking by...
Sen grew up Coledale, Tamworth, in regional New South Wales. "Coledale was the first public housing area in Tamworth and a lot of the Indigenous people from the outer areas came in here and this was the first experience, I guess, of a town really for a lot of people," Sen said. "It was kind of segregated from the rest of the town back then. I think...
Sen fell in love with film while living in Coledale. "The local cinema was a long walk from here, but every few weeks we had the money and we would go through the other side of town across the railway tracks and I remember watching Gallipoli by Peter Weir," he said. "I was maybe eight years old or something, and that 8km back, I just cried all the ...
According to Ivan Sen, making Mystery Road together with Aaron Pedersen ‘felt like our ancestors were watching over us’. Sen, too, knows a thing or two about both Indigenous dispossession and being an in-betweener.
Oct 14, 2019 · Sen was in Toomelah well in advance of the film’s inception. On one day, he saw Daniel being threatened by a bunch of older boys; instead of cowering, the boy took it to them, pulling out a knife to defend himself.
Jun 7, 2016 · An opening montage of stunning old photos casts the film into an epic historical frame, in the context of this three-way cultural encounter.
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Ivan Sen is an important figure in what has been called the Blak Wave in Australian cinema — the rise over the last few decades of a growing number of talented Indigenous filmmakers who are redefining long-held conceptions about Australian cinema.
