CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
I've always been drawn to truth in
performance and the idiosyncratic nature of behavior. The kind
of behavior that can tip you from a smile to a tear in an instant.
Midnight Cowboy was a seminal film for me; I was devastated
by the film's raw beauty and adoration for fringe characters.
It's taken many short films, music videos and ultimately my feature
Kenny to realize that I am always looking for those kind
of moments of connection between characters in my films, moments
of surprise that can celebrate the struggle, dignity and pathos
of ordinary existence. It's that epic human drama unfolding over
the neighbor's fence, drowned out by our lawn mower, that interests
me - it feels real and bitter sweet.
Clayton
Jacobson, May 2008
See
also Press for Kenny page.
Also:
downloadable (PDF, 1 Mb) article "Kenny
shoots for the stars", on the making of the film.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Environmental
(1994, 5 mins, 16mm)
part of SBS-TV collection Five Easy Pizzas
The Holy
Roadside (1995, 95 mins, video)
Mushroom Records Feature Length Doco on The Badloves
Air-Con
(1998, 5 mins, 16mm)
Blind
Rage (1998, 6 mins, 16mm, B/W)
The Pin
Drop (1999, 8.20 mins, b/w, 16mm)
Hobson/Hirschfelder
(2000, 60 mins, video)
Concert/Doco Video, ABC TV
Tanaka
(2001, 23 mins, DV)
Tickler
(2001, 7 mins, DV)
John Safran's
Music Jamboree
episodes Footloose, Wheel of Britney, Evil Clowns
(2002, SBS TV Series, 25 mins each)
Father
(2002, 10 mins, DV)
I Love
U (2002, 15 mins, 35mm finish)
I'm Only
Looking: The Best of INXS (2004)
(videos "Time", "Make Your Peace")
Kenny
- Self proclaimed scatologist (2004, 45 mins, Betacam)
Kenny
(2006, 103 mins, 35mm)
Kenny
- Making of (2007, 44 mins, video)
Broadcast on Ch 10
Kenny's
World (2008, 8 x 22 mins episodes, HD)
Broadcast
on Ch 10
AWARDS:
Environmental
Peoples
choice award at the Montreal Film Festival 1995
The Pin
Drop
WINNER
OF BEST CRAFT AWARD ST KILDA FILM FEST
Tanaka
Best
achievement in video St Kilda film fest 2002.
Highly Commended Asia Pacific film festival
Best Gay/Lesbian short Cork film festival 2002.
Best Australian gay short Melbourne queer film fest 2003
Audience choice award Toronto Japanese film fest.
Tickler
Tropicana
award 2001 Tropfest Sydney.
Nescafe 2001 short film of the year.
Most popular short Melbourne fringe film festival 2001
I Love
U
WINNER
BEST FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SOUND, BEST EDITING, BEST
ACTRESS AT INAUGURAL POV AWARDS
Kenny
- Self proclaimed scatologist
WINNER
BEST COMEDY ST KILDA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2004
AUDIENCE
CHOICE AWARD ST KILDA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2004
Kenny
IF
Awards 2006
WINNER
Best Feature Film
WINNER
Best Script
WINNER
Highest Box Office Achievement Award
Nominated
Best Director, Nominated Best Editing
Australian
Film Institute Awards 2006
Nominated
Best Direction, Nominated Best Editing, Nominated Best Film, Nominated
Best Original Screenplay,
Film Critics
Circle of Australia Awards 2006
WINNER
Best Original Screenplay
Nominated
Best Director, Nominated Best Film
Screen Producers
Association of Australia (SPAA) Conference 2006
WINNER
Feature Producers Award
Film Ink
Magazine Awards - 2007
WINNER
Best Australian Film
Film Victoria
- Greg Tepper Award - 2007
WINNER
Best contribution to Victorian Film Community
AVSDA (Audio
Visual Software Distributors Association) - Home Entertainment
Awards - 2007
WINNER
- Retail Title of the Year for an Independent Distributor
WINNER
- Rental Title of the Year for an Independent Distributor
WINNER
- Comedy/Romance Title of the Year (Across All films)
See also Press
for Kenny page.
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"Lifting
the Lid", by Sacha Molitorisz, Sydney Morning Herald,
Aug 11, 2006.
"Kenny
shoots for the stars", by Bill Dawes, Digital World,
Dec 2006.
"These
movies aren't dead, they're just sleepers", by Ken Russell,
The Times, Sep 20, 2007.
Agent:
Shanahans Management
02 82021800
PR
Rep
Deb Fryers
0437 255 657
deb@debfryers.com
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Clayton Jacobson, May 2008
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