Matthew Saville

Matthew's films have screened in over two hundred festivals. His short feature Roy Höllsdotter Live screened in 2003 at the Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Locarno, Cork, Montreal and Commonwealth International film festivals as well as SBS television. In 2002 the script for the film was short listed for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. In June 2003, the film won the Dendy Award for best short film (over 15mins) at the Sydney Film Festival, and Best Original Script for Television at the 2003 Australian Writers' Guild Awards, and was nominated for a Film Critics' Circle of Australia, and two AFI Awards. The film was voted best short film at the 2003 Lexus IF Awards, where Matthew was also honored with the Best Rising Talent Award.
Matthew has been a prolific contributor to the recent crop of Australian television sketch comedy, directing both skitHouse for Channel Ten and Big Bite for the Seven Network. He has also worked in television drama, directing The Secret Life of Us and The Surgeon for Channel Ten. In 2005 Matthew directed the very successful comedy The Nominees, which screened last year on the Sundance Channel, won the Rose d'Or for Best Comedy Series, and was nominated for best comedy series at the 2006 Banff Awards. It won two Logie awards in the same year.
Matthew has recently completed the libretto for a contemporary Opera, which will be performed this year by Chamber Made Opera at the Melbourne Festival. He was in post-production on The King, a biopic about television iconoclast Graham Kennedy.

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