JONATHAN OGILVIE
Directing Lecturer
Jonathan Ogilvie is an award-winning writer/director whose most recent film The Tender Hook was nominated for five AFI Awards and an AWGIE award for best feature screenplay.
Jonathan graduated from AFTRS in the early 90s. His first 35mm short film, Despondent Divorcee, was selected for Official Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1995, and went on to screen at over a dozen prestigious international festivals including Toronto, Clermont-Ferrand, Sao Paolo, Edinburgh and London.
Jonathan took the opportunity to shoot some Super 8 footage in Cannes, which then became integral to his next short, This Film is a Dog, which was itself selected for Competition in Cannes the following year. This Film is a Dog won Tropfest in 1996 and screened at Telluride, Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, Aspen and London amongst others.
Jonathan was a Project Officer, Assessor and Reader at the NSW Film and Television Office for several years, and has written a number of feature screenplays, both original and commissioned.
