William Michael Hollands | |
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Born | 10 March 1946 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation | Film director |
William Michael "Mike" Hollands (born 10 March 1946) is the creative director and founder of Melbourne based animation house Act3animation. His best known directorial work, the tragicomedy Piñata, was a nominee at the 2005 Annecy International Animated Film Festival[1] in Annecy, France, the 2005 AFI Awards, for Best Short Animation,[2][3] and won Vancouver's Vidfest 2005.
He is also connected to Deakin University through their motion capture studio, Motion.Lab, with which Act3animation is partnered, managing its commercial captures.[4]
Hollands was also an exhibiting painter in his earlier years, and did cover illustrations for various books, including the 1980 Miles Franklin Award winner, The Impersonators,[5] by Jessica Anderson, and 1981's Fly Away Peter,[6] by David Malouf.