Profession: Director

Biography: Nathan was influenced in his younger years by the thrill of Horror Films and the excitement of acting for his family and friends. His family heritage is steeped in performance and art making, so his creativity is both inherent and also uniquely his own. The greatest influence on his desire to make films comes from his maternal grandfather who was a maker of home movies, a musician and a performer in the Entertainment Corps during the Second World War in New Guinea.

While Nathan’s early home films were in the genre of ‘horror’ he had a talent for dramatic intensity and twists and turns which elevated the overall productions from merely sensational and gratuitous to engagement on an emotional as well as social level. His first full-length film The Hidden at age 19 years, while made with local friends, was based on the social context of the time, i.e. the relationship between the developmental stages of adolescence and identity formation with the insidious pull to experimentation and temptation of drug taking. Issues around the dealership of drugs, making gain from those vulnerable, power and delusion themes, the fight for the right and the cost of this for those who hold higher values.

Spoken Languages: English

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