Tony Ayres
Tony Ayres | |
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Born | Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction 2007 The Home Song Stories Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted) 2007 The Home Song Stories | 16 July 1961
Tony Ayres (born 16 July 1961) is an Australian showrunner, screenwriter, director in television and feature film. He is most notable for his films Walking on Water and The Home Song Stories, as well his work in television, including working as the showrunner on The Slap and teen adventure series Nowhere Boys.
Early life
On 16 July 1961, Ayres was born in Portuguese Macau (now in China).[1] In 1964, Ayres' mother married an Australian sailor and migrated her family to Perth, Western Australia.[2]
In 1972, when Ayres was 11 years old, his mother died by suicide. She was a
Ayres' stepfather died of a heart attack four years after the death of his wife, and two days before he was due to remarry.[2][4] Ayres and his older sister briefly lived with their stepfather's former fiancée, before being placed in the care of Ayres' history teacher.[2] They then moved to Canberra, ACT with their guardian, whom Ayres' sister later married.[2] Ayres' 2007 film The Home Song Stories is loosely based on this early period of his life.[3]
Education
Ayres attended
Career
In feature films, Ayres' first feature
Ayres was the showrunner and director of the eight episode miniseries
Personal life
Filmography
Film
Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | ||
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Director | Producer | Writer | |||
Double Trouble | 1992 | Yes | No | Yes | Documentary short film |
Exposed | 1997 | Yes | No | No | Short film |
Mrs. Craddock's Complaint | 1998 | Yes | No | Yes | Short film |
China Dolls | 1998 | Yes | No | Yes | Documentary film |
Sadness | 1999 | Yes | No | No | Documentary film |
Walking on Water | 2002 | Yes | No | No | |
The Home Song Stories | 2007 | Yes | No | Yes | |
Lou | 2010 | No | Yes | No | |
Miss South Sudan Australia | 2011 | No | Yes | Yes | Documentary film |
The Turning | 2013 | Yes | No | No | Segment: "Cockleshell" |
Spine | 2013 | No | No | based on an idea | Short film |
Cut Snake | 2014 | Yes | No | No | |
Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows | 2016 | No | executive | Yes | |
Ali's Wedding | 2017 | No | executive | No |
Television
The numbers in directing and writing credits refer to the number of episodes.
Title | Year | Credited as | Network | Notes | |||
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Creator | Director | Writer | Executive producer | ||||
Six Pack | 1992 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | SBS TV | Anthology series |
Under the Skin | 1994 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | SBS TV | Anthology series |
Naked: Stories of Men | 1996 | No | No | Yes (1) | No | ABC | Anthology series |
The Violent Earth | 1998 | No | No | Yes (3) | No | Nine Network | Miniseries |
Saved
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2009 | No | Yes | No | No | SBS TV | Television film |
The Slap | 2011 | No | Yes (2) | No | No | ABC1 | Producer |
Nowhere Boys | 2013–18 | Yes | No | No | Yes | ABC3 ABC Me |
Producer (series 1) Executive producer (series 2–4) |
Glitch | 2015–19 | Yes | No | No | Yes | ABC TV | |
Stateless | 2020 | Yes | No | No | Yes | ABC TV | |
Clickbait | 2021 | Yes | No | Yes (5) | Yes | Netflix | Limited series |
Fires | 2021 | Yes | No | No | Yes | ABC TV | Anthology series |
† | Denotes television series that have not yet been aired |
Executive producer-only
Title | Year | Network | Notes |
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The Last Valley | 2005 | ABC | Documentary film |
Two Men & Two Babies | 2008 | SBS TV | Documentary film |
Anatomy | 2009–13 | ABC1 | Docuseries Producer (series 1–2) Executive producer (series 3: 1 episode, series 4) |
The Straits | 2012 | ||
Underground: The Julian Assange Story | 2012 | Network Ten | Television film |
Next Stop Hollywood | 2013 | ABC1 | |
Old School | 2014 | ||
Devil's Playground | 2014 | Showcase
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The Slap
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2015 | NBC | Miniseries |
Maximum Choppage | 2015 | ABC2 | |
The Family Law | 2016–17 | SBS | Series 1–2 |
Wanted | 2016–18 | Seven Network | |
Seven Types of Ambiguity | 2017 | ABC TV | |
Creamerie | 2021 | TVNZ OnDemand
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Web series |
Producer-only
Title | Year | Network | Notes |
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Bogan Pride | 2008 | SBS TV | |
Barracuda | 2016 | ABC TV | Miniseries |
Awards
Tony Ayres won the award of Best Dramatic Feature at the 2015
References
- ^ a b Prints and Printmaking, Australia entry for Tony Ayres
- ^ a b c d e f "Going beyond the pale". The Age, 4 April 2003.
- ^ ABC Queensland, 10 August 2007.
- ^ a b Williams, Gail (28 July 2007). "Tortured lives". PerthNow. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
External links
- Tony Ayres at IMDb