Michael James Rowland
Michael James Rowland (born 15 January 1964) is an Australian film director.
Early years
Prior to his screen career, Rowland studied graphic design at the North Adelaide School of Art in South Australia and started his early working life as a designer and illustrator specialising in the arts. His list of freelance clients grew to include
Cowboy Books
Michael established the graphic novella imprint Cowboy Books[3] in 1990 with the publication of the awarding winning Ten Drawings of the Jungle. This first title was followed up two years later with The Existentialist Cowboys Last Stand (1992) and Life Advice for High-Plains Drifters (2000). Cowboy Books sell throughout Europe, North America and Australia.
Film school
Michael 'retired' from graphic design in 1994, relocating to Sydney to study for a BA in Film at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). In his first year as an undergraduate the screenrights to his novella The Existentialist Cowboy's Last Stand were bought and it was made into one of Australia's most successful short films of the 1990s, along the way earning Michael his first Australian Film Institute (AFI) nomination. The second came with the Russian language, space-race short, Flying Over Mother (1996), cementing his reputation as an original screenwriter/director with a global audience.
First feature film
His first feature film,
In 2008, Australia's national broadcaster, ABC1, programmed Lucky Miles at 8:30 pm Sunday night on the Australia Day long-weekend holiday. Its contribution to the nation's celebration.
First television feature
In 2008, Rowland co-wrote and directed the one-hour
For his work, Michael was nominated in the Best Telemovie Director category at the Australian Directors Guild Awards 2009, composer Roger Mason won Best Music for a Telemovie at the 2009 Australian Screen Music Award and Designer Felicity Abbott and props master Paul Stewart were both recognised for their work on the film at the 2009 Newport International Film Festival.
In 2009 Australia's national broadcaster, ABC1, programmed The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce in prime time on Sunday night over the Australia Day long weekend. The previous year Lucky Miles had been programmed in the same 8:30 pm slot, making it the second year in a row the ABC had screened a Rowland feature to mark the nation's celebration.
Series Television
During 2010 and 2011 Michael directed 8 episodes of AFI and IF award winning series My Place, produced by Penny Chapman. He directed 3 episodes in the first series and was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild Award. He returned to the second series as set-up director and helmed a further 5 episodes.
Early in 2011 he directed two episodes of the genre breaking comedy/drama/romance Spirited, produced by Jacquelin Perske and Claudia Karvan. Mid year he directed three episodes of the ballet-teen-drama Dance Academy, produced by Werner Film Productions for ABC, and in the second half of the year directed three episodes of the award winning Foxtel drama Tangle.
Notes
- ^ "Pt平台网上真钱打牌". Archived from the original on 2 December 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
- ^ "Adelaide Festival - About - 1988 Adelaide Festival of Arts". Archived from the original on 21 July 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
- ^ "Home". cowboybooks.com.au.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452644/
- ^ "Kenneth Moraleda". IMDb.
- ^ "Rodney Afif". IMDb.
- ^ "Sri Sacdpraseuth". IMDb.
External links
- Official website Australian Film Television and Radio School
- [1] The Internet Movie Database
- [2] Adelaide Film Festival
- [3] Variety
- [4] Cowboy Books
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