Nationality Australian Parents Freda Glynn Spouse Beck Cole | Name Warwick Thornton | |
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Awards Camera d'Or, AACTA Award for Best Direction Children Rona Thornton, Dylan Thornton, Luka May Thornton Movies Samson and Delilah, Words with Gods, The Darkside, The Turning, The Sapphires Similar People Marissa Gibson, Kath Shelper, Rowan McNamara, Beck Cole, Robert Connolly | ||
The darkside 2013 official trailer director warwick thornton
Warwick Thornton is an Australian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. His debut feature film, Samson and Delilah won the Caméra d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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- The darkside 2013 official trailer director warwick thornton
- Samson delilah warwick thornton director talking pictures palm springs film festival
- Family
- Career
- Awards and nominations
- As director
- As cinematographer
- References
Samson delilah warwick thornton director talking pictures palm springs film festival
Family
Thornton was born and raised in Alice Springs. His mother, Freda Glynn, co-founded and was the first Director of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), and was the Director of Imparja Television for its first ten years. For a time she was the only female chair of a television network in the world. In 1993 she, together with Philip Batty, won the $50,000 international prize in communications, the McLuhan Teleglobe Canada Award.
At 13, Thornton was sent to school in Australia's only monastic town, New Norcia, Western Australia, although he later declared he became angry with Christianity and did not consider himself religious.
One of his sisters, Erica Glynn, is also a well-known film writer and director.
He has two brothers, Scott Thornton, an actor who played the role of Gonzo in Samson and Delilah (2009 film), and Rob Thornton who is an indigenous liaison officer in Cairns Base Hospital, Queensland.
Career
He graduated in cinematography from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Thornton began his career making short films and has achieved success with them at film festivals around the world, including Payback at the Telluride Film Festival and Green Bush and Nana at the Berlin International Film Festival. He describes his decision to become a filmmaker in an interview in 2007:
Where I grew up in Alice I was a DJ for a radio station (CAAMA). The station began a film unit and so I watched people pack cameras and equipment into cars and take off to make films. I was alone at the radio station and I thought that I really wanted to go with them. That’s how it started, I made a film called Green Bush which is basically about that time. Eventually I went to AFTRS in Sydney and got really involved as a Director of Photography. I’ve been in the business for 9 years now.