Ana Kokkinos

Director

August 3, 1958 (67 years)

Melbourne, Australia

Biography

Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film and television director and screenwriter of Greek descent. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film, she worked as an industrial lawyer. Kokkinos has since directed three feature-length films and two short films. She has won numerous awards for her films.

Filmography

7.1

Fires

Inspired by true events, the story of everyday Australians at the front line of the devastating fires of the 2019-2020 Australian summer.

6.1

Ten Pound Poms

In 1956, British citizens respond to an Australian migration scheme promising a better life and good employment prospects for a mere £10. For Annie and Terry Roberts, and their two children, a move to Australia offers a way for Terry to escape the scars of his service during WWII. In contrast, Kate arrives as a young nurse and claims to have migrated on her own due to her fiancé not wanting to make the move, but the real truth behind her journey is something else entirely.

6.5

Mustangs FC

A goal kicking comedy drama about girls who are abandoning the sidelines and starting their local football club’s first all-female team. Against the odds, they’ll stand united and overcome any challenge the club, the boys or the opposition can throw at them, all while wrestling with what it means to be a girl today.

6.1

Seven Types of Ambiguity

The shifting perspective of six characters following a complicated chain of events triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis.

5.8

Pulse

When successful high-flier Frankie Bell is brought crashing to earth by chronic kidney failure she targets an alternate future. Eight years on she is in her second year as a practicing doctor starting her first day in a Renal rotation. Driven to use her second chance to save others, Frankie must confront an ailing health system, and face her toughest challenge - learning to let go.

5.9

The Hunting

When two high school teachers discover students are sharing explicit photos of their underage friends and peers online, the revelation has devastating consequences for the students and their families.

8.0

Eugenie Sandler P.I.

Eugénie Sandler P.I. is a 13-part Australian children's series that first aired on ABC1 in 2000. The series stars Xaris Miller as the title character. The show now airs on ABC3 in an afternoon time slot.

5.2

The Book of Revelation

An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.

6.2

Head On

Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.

6.7

Blessed

Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.

4.7

Here Out West

A baby is kidnapped from hospital by a desperate grandmother. Her flight sets off a chain of events that bring together complete strangers over the course of one day.

4.1

Only the Brave

Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes advantage of this by trying to seduce her drippy school teacher. Alex watches as Vicki, unable to escape her terrible homelife and an psychological wreck, sets alight to herself and burns to death.

N/A

Antamosi

A half-hour narrative fiction short that explores the Greek experience in Australia. Memories, betrayals and secrets emerge from the past when Katina's mother comes from Greece to visit the family. The bitter embrace between mother and daughter is observed by Katina's own daughter, Sophia, who must play her own role in this moving drama of estrangement.

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