Anastasia Kokkinos Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ana Kokkinos (born 3 August 1958) is an Australian film director. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film, she worked as an industrial lawyer. In 1991 she was accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts' graduate film and television programme.Her films include a 1992 short film Antamasi, 1994's Only The Brave (winner of the Grand Prix at the Melbourne International Film Festival), 1998's Head On (based on the novel "Loaded" by Christos Tsiolkas) and 2005's "The Book of Revelation". She has also directed episodes of Australian television programs such as Young Lions and The Secret Life Of Us.In 2009 she directed Blessed.
Cinema still has the power to provoke a visceral response and it is the role of the artist to provoke and question. I want to go to the heart of the contemporary complacency. It's OK if it creates a fuss.
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I received a lot of offers to go to America after Head On. But I didn't become a filmmaker to go to Hollywood. I'm passionate about film and the possibility of telling stories important to me. I think Hollywood would be shocking. They have a completely different idea of what films are about.
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On the one hand, we seem to be frightened of sex. And yet there's no questioning of the rampant violence that is depicted on screen.
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The choices that are made about how sex is cinematically represented is very much a choice that is really to be determined between the filmmaker and the actors themselves. From my point of view as a filmmaker, as long as there is no abuse or exploitation in that, then essentially the filmmaker and actors have the right to explore the representation of those scenes in a truthful way.
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Sex is part of what we do. To not explore it as a filmmaker is denying a whole part of ourselves.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Time of Our Lives
2013
TV Series 4 episodes
Australia on Trial
2012
TV Series 1 episode
Blessed
2009/I
The Book of Revelation
2006
The Secret Life of Us
2003-2005
TV Series 4 episodes
The Original Mermaid
2002
Documentary
Young Lions
2002
TV Series 2 episodes
Eugenie Sandler P.I.
2000
TV Series 4 episodes
Head On
1998
Only the Brave
1994
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Book of Revelation
2006
screenplay
The Original Mermaid
2002
Documentary
Head On
1998
screenplay
Only the Brave
1994
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Blessed
2009/I
executive producer
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Moving Pictures Live!
2010
TV Series
Herself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2000
Best Film
Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Head On (1998)
1999
Readers' Award for Favourite Australian Film
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Head On (1998)
1999
Grand Jury Award
L.A. Outfest
Outstanding Foreign Narrative Feature
Head On (1998)
1999
Best First Feature
San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Head On (1998)
1998
Awgie Award
Australian Writers' Guild
Feature Film - Adaptation
Head On (1998)
1994
Gold Hugo
Chicago International Film Festival
Best Documentary
Only the Brave (1994)
1994
Grand Prix
Melbourne International Film Festival
Only the Brave (1994)
1994
Best Australian Short Film
Melbourne International Film Festival
Only the Brave (1994)
1994
Audience Award
San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Best Feature
Only the Brave (1994)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2006
AFI Award
Australian Film Institute
Best Screenplay - Adapted
The Book of Revelation (2006)
2006
FCCA Award
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Best Screenplay - Adapted
Candy (2006)
1999
FCCA Award
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Best Director
Head On (1998)
1999
FCCA Award
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Best Screenplay - Adapted
Head On (1998)
1999
Rosebud
Verzaubert - International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
$950,000
