Ian Gilmour

Began performing in high school and subsequently appeared in over 120 hours of television and fourteen feature films including Fred Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), John Duigan's Mouth to Mouth (1978), Tom Jeffrey's The Odd Angry Shot (1979), Dusan Makavejev's The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Fred Schepisi's Evil Angels ("A Cry in the Dark") and Bill Bennett's Malpractice. Turning to direction, he was selected from over a thousand applicants to attend the Australian Film Television and Radio School to specialise in Screen Direction. Completing his Diploma, he immediately went into pre-production on the AFC/PBL telefeature Double Sculls for Producer Richard Brennan. Since then, has directed the mini series Snowy and Bordertown as well as the multi award winning Phoenix and Water Rats. In 1992 he was the set up director on the PRO Films / Fremantle Corporation's Black Beauty which was awarded The International TV Programmers' Award at the 1994 New York Festival. He subsequently