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JonathanOgilvie

  • Director
  • Writer
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Christchurch-born Jonathan Ogilvie's many music videos include Straitjacket Fits classic She Speeds. Based in Australia since the 1990s, Ogilvie has twice competed at the Cannes Film Festival. He has also directed four features: Emulsion (2006), shot on Super 8 film, 1920s gangster romance The Tender Hook (2008), starring Hugo Weaving and Rose Byrne, thriller Lone Wolf (2021) and Kiwi coming of age drama Head South (2024).

Screenography

Head South
2024 Director, Writer, Producer Film
Lone Wolf
2021 Director, Writer, Producer Film
The Tender Hook
2008 Writer, Director Film
Emulsion
2006 Camera, Writer, Director Film
Jet Set
2001 Writer, Director Short film

Biography

Jonathan Ogilvie began writing and performing in post-punk bands as a Christchurch teenager. His immersion in the local indie music scene later led to him making a number of moody music videos for the Flying Nun label — for bands such as The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience (Into You), The Bats (the London-shot Made Up in Blue) and Headless Chickens (Cruise Control).

Awards

2015 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA)
Nominated for Best Indie Film: Lone Wolf

2021 Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands)
Nominated for Big Screen Award: Lone Wolf

“...a director who has earned his name as one of the very few people in the world to have his short films screen in back-to-back Cannes film festivals...”

— Writer Hussain Currimbhoy describes Jonathan Ogilvie, Senses of Cinema website, February 2007