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As
co-founding Managing Director of MusicArtsDance films
Pty Ltd, Aanya Whitehead has been an active member
of the Australian film industry all of her working life which
commenced in 1985. She has creatively produced the entire
collection of MusicArtsDance films projects, and has been
nominated twice at the AFI Awards.
Her
2004 production The
Widower garnered much critical acclaim,
was reviewed by Variety International, nominated
for an AFI Award and amongst others was selected
for competition to the Moscow International Film Festival
2006.
One
Night The Moon (2001) written and directed by
Rachel Perkins is regarded as a contemporary
Australian film classic, has won numerous international awards
and has been selected to over 40 international film festivals
including Sundance, Berlin and Toronto. Alongside this
production she completed filmmaker Paul Cox's
opus The Diaries of Vaslav
Nijinsky (2002), a film he had been working obsessively
on for over 30 years.
In 1987 she produced
Beyond El Rocco in
association with Channel Four UK along with three music specials,
Transitions, Diffusions
and Combustions.
Black River
(1993 in association with BBC UK) won the special
jury award Grand Prix at the IMZ Opera Screen in Paris
1993 and subsequently Aanya managed its Australia-wide
theatrical distribution tour.
In 1995 she line
produced the Australian shoot of Juzo Itami's
Japanese feature A
Quiet Life.
Other producing
credits include:
Dreams
for Life (2004) feature by writer/director Anna
Kannava; Touch
(2003) short film by writer/director Joel Hoffman; Fish-an
Unborn Soul (1999) - a dance performance film
adaptation of Bangarra's theatre work FISH directed
and written by Stephen Page in his film directing debut; Urban
Clan (1998) - a documentary about Stephen, David
and Russell Page, Djakapurra Munyarryun and the Bangarra Dance
Theatre, written and directed by Michelle Mahrer it
won Best Sound and was also nominated for the 1998 AFI Awards
for Best Documentary; Three
Knocks On the Door (1997) - a documentary on
Philippe Genty in Australia - directed by Kevin Lucas and
Disturbance
(1997) - a short drama film nominated for best original screenplay
at the 1998 AWGIE awards and selected for the London International
Film Festival. She also Executive Produced
Phillip Donnellon's short film Cheap
Seats (2004).
In
2004 she directed the documentary Global
Echoes Inka Marka, and has written and directed
several short films herself, including a music video by Stephen
The Bard, titled Hotch
Potch, playing
on YouTube.
Aanya
has served on the board of the Sydney Improvised Music
Association and worked for the Australian
Screen Director's Association. Throughout 2005-2006
she travelled throughout Mozambique, South Africa, Senegal,
Cyprus, the United Kingdom and France to investigate their
cultural industries, and has subsequently collaborated on
the development of several ideas for international cross cultural
film projects.
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