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PatrickGillies

  • Writer
  • Director
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Christchurch-based Patrick Gillies hit his stride as a director after training to be a news cameraman and editor. His work has been selected for 40+ film festivals worldwide; comical short films Admit One (1999) and Kitty (2002) were both nominated for awards at the Montréal World Film Festival. Gillies put money from an AMP Scholarship towards "warped action comedy" Offensive Behaviour (2004), his debut feature. He also wrote and directed follow-ups The Holy Roller and My Name is Heather. The latter film explores starting over in Christchurch after the quakes. Gillies works as a film tutor at the Southern Institute of Technology.

Screenography

My Name is Heather
2018 Director, Writer, Editor, Producer Film
Charlie Floyd's Visionarium
2015 Executive Producer Short film
Jailbait Kate
2013 Director Music video
The Holy Roller
2011 Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Post-Production Supervisor, As: street dancer, seedy soliciting man Film
Huhu Attack!
2011 Director, Writer, Editor, Producer Short film

Awards

2002 Montréal World Film Festival
Nominated for Best Short Film: Kitty

1999 Montréal World Film Festival
Nominated for Best Short Film: Admit One

“I used to think 'hope' was merely a carrot, a means to anaesthetise us from our own inevitable mortality. Now I realise it's also a survival instinct, a powerful source of motivation when surrounded by helplessness.”

— Patrick Gillies on completing movie The Holy Roller amidst the Christchurch quakes, The Sunday Star-Times, 18 September 2011