Matthew Saville

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Matthew Saville is an Australian television and film director who began his career working as a titles designer for many Australian television series Several of his short films including Franz and Kafka have received awards and screened widely at film festivals Matthew Saville came to wider prominence as a writerdirector with his one hour film Roy Hollsdotter Live a bittersweet comedy about a standup comedian experiencing a personal breakdown The film won awards at the Sydney Film Festival in 2003 as well as at the Australian Writers Guild Awards The success of that film led among other things to a highly successful career as a television comedy director including the acclaimed Big Bite and We Can Be Heroes on both occasions working with Chris Lilley In addition Matthew Saville has directed episodes of the Australian television drama series The Secret Life of Us as well as directing the first three episodes of The Surgeon In 2007 Savilles feature film debut Noise was released for which he received an AFI nomination for Best Director In 2010 he began directing Cloudstreet a television miniseries version of Tim Wintons novel Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Saville licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia