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NickyMarshall

  • Director
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Nicky Marshall studied film in Sydney, before returning home to Aotearoa to make short film Mon Desir. The arresting portrait of a housewife on the edge was invited to complete at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, in a section devoted to innovative and original filmmaking. She followed it with two tales of adolescence: short Mirage, and hour-long TV drama House of Sticks, in which Kate Elliot debuted as a bulimic 15-year old. Back in Australia, Marshall directed for a number of high profile soaps, then began working as a producer at animation and effects companies. These days she is a business analyst in Sydney.

Screenography

All Saints
1998 - 2009 Director Series
House of Sticks
1997 Director Television
Mirage
1993 Director, Writer Short film
1992 Subject Television
1992 - 2026 Director Series

Awards

1992 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated in the Un Certain Regard section: Mon Desir

1992 Torino International Festival of Young Cinema (Italy)
Nominated for Best Short Film: Mon Desir 

 

“I’m aware in a lot of ways, not just as a filmmaker, that the choices I’ve got in my life are far greater than my mother had. ”

Nicky Marshall, quoted in Deborah Shephard's 2000 book Reframing Women: A History of New Zealand Film