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StewartMain

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Stewart Main is a director noted for his strong sense of visual style, and commitment to themes of individuality and sexuality. Alongside his own projects (including 2005 feature 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous), a fruitful partnership with Peter Wells has produced several noted dramatic and documentary films, including colonial-set bodice-ripper Desperate Remedies.

Screenography

Here's Looking at You, Boy
2007 Subject Film
2005 Subject Television
2005 Director, Associate Producer , Writer Film
2003 Director Television
2000 Director, Writer, Narrator Television

Biography

Stewart Main has directed dramas, often with a gay theme, documentaries, and at least two films (God, Sreenu and Me, Captive State) which lurk between truth and fiction. His work is characterised by an attention to expressive imagery and editing.

Awards

2005 Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Italy)
Special Jury Award (Second Prize, shared with Mexico's El Cielo Dividido): 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous

1996 Amiens International Film Festival
Grand Prix (Best Short Film): Twilight of the Gods

“Making films has taught me that truth comes in all shapes and sizes. ”

Stewart Main

Related images

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A group shot of a number of the directors on About Face, from left to right: Stewart Main, Peter Wells, Shereen Maloney, Greg Stitt and William Keddell.
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