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Amanda Brotchie

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Known for
  
Lowdown

Movies
  
Break & Enter

Spouse
  
Adam Zwar (m. 2003)

Role
  
Director

Name
  
Amanda Brotchie


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Occupation
  
director, writer and linguist

Awards
  
AACTA Award for Best Television Comedy Series, AACTA Award for Best Short Fiction Film

Nominations
  
AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television

Similar People
  
Adam Zwar, Trudy Hellier, Desmond Zwar

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Amanda Brotchie (born in Melbourne) is an Australian director, writer and linguist.

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Career

AFI award-winning director Amanda Brotchie is the co-creator, co-writer and director of the ABC comedy series, Lowdown. Other credits include multi-award-winning short film Break & Enter (director), Neighbours (director), and feature film Rats and Cats (script editor). Theatre credits include The Inner Sanctum (director), and Headlock (writer-director), which was nominated for a Green Room Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing. Amanda also holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Melbourne.

Awards and nominations

  • Accolade Competition: Award for Excellence in Comedy – Lowdown
  • Accolade Competition: Award of Merit in Direction – Amanda Brotchie
  • AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild) Award: Best Comedy – Situation or Narrative for Lowdown. Episode 7 – "Who's Your Baddy?" Won with Adam Zwar
  • Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Television Comedy Series – Lowdown (2010) (Nominated)
  • Australian Directors Guild Awards: Best Direction in Television Comedy – Amanda Brotchie (2010) (Nominated)
  • Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Short Fiction Film. Break & Enter
  • Film Critics Circle of Australia: Best Short Fiction Film. Break & Enter
  • The Green Room Awards (Theatre): Outstanding Achievement in Writing (2002) – Headlock (Nominated)

    • References

    Amanda Brotchie Wikipedia
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