Jonathan Ogilvie

Writer | Director

Whilst living in London in the 80s, Jonathan worked on the crew of several feature films including Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. This experience cemented his desire to become a filmmaker. He graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 1990.

He wrote and directed The Tender Hook (starring Hugo Weaving and Rose Byrne) which was released in 2008 by Icon Films and was nominated for five AFI awards and an AWGIE award for Best Feature Screenplay and has made numerous shorts films that have screened at major film festivals and have sold internationally. Despondent Divorcee and This Film Is A Dog were both selected for Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. This Film Is A Dog also won Tropfest. In 2007 he made Emulsion, which screened at the Brisbane International Film Festival, Cinema des Antipodes in Cannes and Ozflix in Toronto.

From 2009–2014 Jonathan was a Directing and Screenwriting Lecturer at AFTRS. In 2018 he was awarded a PhD from Macquarie University for his thesis The Cinematics of Surveillance and his screenplay Lone Wolf.

In 2019, Jonathan directed Lone Wolf, (starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Josh McConville, Marlon Williams and Hugo Weaving), an innovative contemporary adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Victorian novel, ‘The Secret Agent’. The film had its World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2021. The film had its International Premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival where it screened as part of the Official Selection. Lone Wolf has also been nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Indie Feature Film.

Most recently, Jonathan wrapped production on the feature film Head South, a post-punk bildungsroman set in New Zealand’s South Island in 1979. He also has several projects in development, including a WW2 NZ/AUS TV drama co-production called Minotaur.

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