Matthew Saville
Directing
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Matthew Saville is an Australian television and film director, who began his career working as a titles designer for many Australian television series. Several of his short films, including Franz and Kafka have received awards and screened widely at film festivals.
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Matthew Saville came to wider prominence as a writer/director with his one hour film Roy Hollsdotter Live, a bittersweet comedy about a stand-up comedian experiencing a personal breakdown. The film won awards at the Sydney Film Festival in 2003, as well as at the Australian Writers' Guild Awards.
The success of that film led, among other things, to a highly successful career as a television comedy director, including the acclaimed Big Bite and We Can Be Heroes, on both occasions working with Chris Lilley.
In addition, Matthew Saville has directed episodes of the Australian television drama series The Secret Life of Us as well as directing the first three episodes of The Surgeon.
In 2007 Saville's feature film debut Noise was released, for which he received an AFI nomination for Best Director. In 2010 he began directing Cloudstreet, a television miniseries version of Tim Winton's novel.
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Known for
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- 2016A Month of Sundays Screenplay, Director, Producer
- 2014Felony Director
- 2014A Writer and Three Script Editors Walk Into a Bar Director, Producer, Writer
- 2007The King Director
- 2007Noise Director, Writer
- 2005We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year Director
- 2004Roy Hollsdotter Live Writer, Director
- 1997Franz & Kafka Director
- TBASweetheart Director, Writer
