David Michôd

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David Michôd and Mirrah Foulkes (2012)

David "Dave" Michôd (born November 30, 1972 in Sydney ) is an Australian film director , screenwriter , film producer and actor .

Life

After attending Grammar School in Sydney, Michôd moved to Melbourne , where he worked in the Victorian Education Department. He soon broke off this activity and began studying art at the University of Melbourne . This was followed by training at a film school.

After completing his training, he worked for the film magazine Inside Film in Sydney, initially as a simple editor and then from 2003 to 2006 as editor-in-chief. At the same time, the first short films were made, including Ezra White, LL.B. (2006), Crossbow (2007) or Netherland Dwarf (2008).

In 2008 he co-produced the documentary Solo: Missing on the High Seas with Jennifer Peedom, about the Australian adventurer Andrew McAuley , who died trying to become the first person to paddle a sea kayak from Tasmania to New Zealand. Two years later Michôd made his feature film debut with the crime drama Kingdom of Crime . In the same year Spencer Susser filmed the screenplay for Hesher - The Rebel , which the director had written together with Michôd.

Michôd's second feature film, The Rover, was released in 2014 , for which he again wrote the script and this time also acted as a producer.

In 2017 his next film War Machine was released , for which Michôd also wrote the script based on the non-fiction book The Operators by Michael Hastings . The main role was taken by Brad Pitt .

Filmography (selection)

Director

Screenwriter

producer

actor

Web links

Commons : David Michôd  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Julian Morgans: David Michod is Australia's Best Angry Film Maker . In: broadsheet.com.au of June 16, 2014
  2. ^ Paul Chai: Director to Watch: David Michod . In: Variety of January 20, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Michôd, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michôd, Dave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney