Ivan Sen

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Ivan Sen is an Australian filmmaker. Throughout the late 1990s Sen worked on numerous short films, before making his feature film debut with Beneath Clouds in 2002

Sen drew on his own background as the child of an Aboriginal mother and an absent white father for the screenplay of his first feature-length work, Beneath Clouds, filmed on a $2.5 million dollar budget. The film is about a teenager's search for a forgotten basketball factory, it won Sen global acclaim, screening at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and winning the Premiere First Movie Award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and the 2002 Best Director Award at the Australian Film Institute Awards. He studied filmmaking at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where he produced his first short films, working with the crew he continues to work with today. Sen was raised in Inverell, New South Wales, Australia.

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  • Tears (1998) : Two teenagers walk from the certainty of life on the 'mish' to a bus stop and enter uncertain dreams of a life somewhere else. At the bus stop both of them have to make a decision.
  • Who Was Evleyn Orcher (documentary)
  • The Dreamers (documentary)
  • Beneath Clouds (feature-length drama)
  • Dust (short drama)
  • Wind (short drama)
  • Vanish (documentary)
  • Journey (short drama)
  • Warm Strangers (short drama)
  • Shifting Shelter (documentary)
  • A Sister's Love (documentary, 2006)

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