Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi ( born December 26, 1939 in Richmond, Australia as Frederic Alan Schepisi ) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and producer.
The son of a greengrocer was at a young age is a good worker, so that he is at age 25 along with two friends, the company Cine Sound Melbourne could buy, which he then renamed the Filmhouse.
As commercial director Schepisi made practical experience with the medium, he was also becoming well known.
After a few film experiments he turns in 1976 his first feature film titled Devil's Playground. Schepisi himself was in a convent school. If you know the life story Schepisi, it is immediately clear that the gambling in a Catholic convent school history based on our own experience. The problems between the strict rules of the order and the onset of puberty are treated just as critical as polemical.
Social criticism has become Schepisi's topic, so two years later in the film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Here he reflects on the extinction of the Australian aborigines, in parallel, using the the Indians in North America. Although the film is by the critics in the favor, but he is a financial flop. Angered by the lack of attention of his countrymen, he goes to the USA:
Schepisi, it is difficult to gain a foothold in the U.S. - his first works are weak. But in 1987 he manages a commercial breakthrough with the Cyrano de Bergerac - parody Roxanne. Also, the 1990 film made The Russia House comes with audiences and critics good. The last work Schepisi were distinguished by their satirical wit.