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PLAY
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NEWS
| PRODUCTION
2008-2009 |
| Peggy,
an emotionally-charged dramatic feature about a fiery
composer (Peggy Glanville-Hicks) and her struggle for
survival is scheduled for production Sept 2008. |
DEVELOPMENT
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| As
a writer/director Lucas has several films in development
including Story
About Feeling, Chasing
Rainbows and Woyzeck. |
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Kevin
Lucas is an innovative award-winning filmmaker whose genre-bending
films have played in international festivals around the globe
including Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Moscow, London, Rome,
Montreal, Toronto, New York, Sundance, Sydney, Melbourne,
Brisbane and more.
He
has worked as writer/director, editor and producer on numerous
self-initiated films, many of which are seen as contemporary
artistic classics in Australia including
The
Widower director/editor/script
editor (2004) a music drama based on poems by Australia's
Poet Laureate, Les Murray; Beyond
El Rocco, director/co-writer
(1989); Black
River director/screenwriter (1992),
Three
Knocks on the Door director/writer
(1996),
One Night The Moon Script Editor/Producer
(2001) Director Rachel Perkins; Fish
an Unborn Soul Script Editor/Producer
(1999) Director Stephen Page; Urban
Clan Script Editor/Producer (1998)
Director Michelle Mahrer; The
Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky Executive
Producer (2002) Director Paul Cox.
Born
in Sydney Australia, Kevin grew up in rural New South Wales.
He was a State swimming champion by 7 years old, had made
his stage debut by 8 years (appearing as Toad in
A A Milne's classic "Toad of
Toad Hall") and was shooting his first 8mm movies
by 9. He later studied as an actor under the Stella Adler
trained Australian actor/director Owen Weingott playing leading
roles in Arthur Miller's "A
View from the Bridge", William Shakespeare's
"Merchant of Venice", JB Priestley's "When
We Are Married" and Bernard Shaw's
"Major Barbara".
After flirting with an architecture degree - which
he abandoned to follow the finer arts - Kevin went on to graduate
with honours in Film & Theatre Studies and English Literature.
Soon after he became artistic director for a Youth Theatre
project, designed and ran Children's Television workshops,
directed and produced short videos, theatre and short films
whilst also working as a professional musician.
Previously
an executive board member of the IMZ, an
international arts media alliance, Kevin has also served as
a Board member for the Australian Screen Directors'
Association (ASDA) and the affiliated collection
society ASDACS, and is an inaugural member
of the Music Council of Australia. He has
served as a Juror for the International
Emmy Awards on several occasions and is a card carrying
member of the Australian Writers' Guild and
the Australian Screen Directors' Association.
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