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Mario Andreacchio
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 Mario Andreacchio on set in South Africa. |
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| Born: | January 01, 1955 (age 52) Leigh Creek, South Australia |
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| Occupation: | Film director, writer, and producer |
Emmy Award winning film director, Mario Andreacchio graduated from Flinders University (South Australia) with a degree in Psychology (after originally going to University to study Experimental Physics), and then was selected to study at the prestigious Australian Film & Television School to train as a Film Director. He has received script commissions to write feature length screenplays, has directed seven cinema feature films, has made a series of television specials, two telemovies, three children's mini-series and has an impressive list of award winning documentaries and dramatised documentaries to his credit.
Mario is also a member of the Australian Screen Directors' Association (ASDA), the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG). Mario's film production company is the Adelaide Motion Picture Company and is based in Norwood, South Australia.
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His feature film, Napoleon, was inspired by his children while watching another animal film. Napoleon pulls together Mario's diverse skills and experiences to produce "a visual feast of images, cleverly crafted together into an ingenious piece of storytelling" (Bill Conti, 1995). Napoleon is a joint venture with Japanese company, Herald Ace, and was released worldwide throughout 1996 and 1997.
The Real Macaw, a family adventure story of a talking parrot, was released to strong reviews in 1998. It was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures in the United States.
Sally Marshall is not an Alien was a Canadian-Australian co-production, successfully premiered in Australia to strong reviews and excellent box-office, making it the second highest grossing Australian film of 1999.
Young Blades was a US-French production is about the Three Musketeers when they were teenagers and still at Musketeer school. The success of the movie has created the first French series to be sold to an American network.
Paradise Found was an Australian-French-UK-German co-production, is an epic true-story based on the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. Starring Kiefer Sutherland as Paul Gauguin with Nastassja Kinski as his wife, the movie was released worldwide during the centenary of Paul Gauguin, in 2003.
His most recent live action family adventure movie, Elephant Tales, was shot in KwaZuluNatal, South Africa in 2005. Elephant Tales is a moving and magical tale of two elephant brothers, Tutu and Zef, in search of their mother, and the menagerie of wild creatures they encounter along the way. Just days after the birth of baby elephant Tutu, human hunters arrive late at night and decimate the herd. Faced with the loss of their family, Tutu and Zef set off across the African plain in search of a future. Elephant Tales is an Australian-French co-production, and was released by United International Pictures in France in October, 2006. Elephant Tales will also be theatrically released in Adelaide (Australia) over the easter period, then being released for the rest of Australia nationally in July, 2007. It will be released through the newly established distribution arm of Adelaide Motion Picture Company.