Marcus Gillezeau Ellenor Cox
FILM | TV | DIGITAL
LIVING UNIVERSE
Co-Writer, Producer: Marcus Gillezeau
Directors:
Alex Barry
Vicent Amouroux
Producers:
Chris Hilton
Aline Jaques
FESTIVALS
SILBERSALZ
Science & Media
Festival (2020)
AWARDS
Finalist - Best Documentary – Science, Technology & the Environment, ATOM Awards (2020)
CAST AND CREW
WEBSITE
LIVING UNIVERSE is an interstellar adventure in search of an exoplanet that supports complex life. We ask the greatest minds in the world: How do we get there? What will we find? And what will it mean if there is proof, we are not alone?
Uplifting, awe-inspiring, and sure to delight space and science fans, young and old. This film is for anyone who has ever wondered as they look up at the stars: what’s really out there?
OWN THE SKY
Producers:
Marcus Gillezeau
Ellenor Cox
Director:
Greg Read
Starring:
David Mayman - The Jetman
CAST AND CREW
WEBSITE
OWN THE SKY is the incredible story of three unlikely heroes who defy the impossible and, in complete secrecy, fulfil a lifelong dream and design, build and fly the world’s first real jetpack around the Statue of Liberty.
The film, shot over 10 years, is a character study in obsession, following David Mayman, an Australian entrepreneur and its impact on his wife, children and the people he pulls into his dream.
STORM SURFERS
Producers:
Marcus Gillezeau
Ellenor Cox
Directors:
Justin McMillan
Chris Nelius
FESTIVALS
Toronto Internation Film Festival (2012)
AWARDS
Winner
Best Documentary Feature - Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts (2013)
Best 3D Documentary - International 3D Society (2013)
Producer of the Year, New Media - Screen Producers Association (2010 & 2012)
Australian Surfing Awards Film of the Year (2013)
CAST AND CREW
STORM SURFERS 3D is an epic, character-driven adventure following two best friends on their quest to hunt down and ride the biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia. Aussie tow-surf legends Ross Clark-Jones and Tom Carroll enlist the help of surf forecaster Ben Matson to track and ride giant storms across the Great Southern Ocean.
Storm Surfers is a large-scale documentary project delivered as a 3D feature documentary for theatrical release and a 4 X 1hr series for global TV. The digital media campaign and roll-out included a game, 30 X 3min web series and interactive e-book.
MOTORKITE DREAMING
Executive Producer:
Marcus Gillezeau
Producer:
John Cherry
Director:
Charlie Hill Smith
FESTIVALS
Hot Docs at Palace Cinemas - Australia (2016)
CAST AND CREW
4,000km of Outback Australia. 4 amateur adventurers. Two second-hand flying machines. And the largest island on earth… What could possibly go wrong?
The ultimate Aussie adventure story. Four amateur adventurers take two microlights – otherwise known as ‘motorbikes with wings’ – and fly them 4,000km across 4 deserts.
This is the tale of Aidan, Daryl and their fiancées’ dream to pull off a daring feat that few have attempted before. Flying from south to north from Adelaide to Broome, the intrepid couples navigate tough flying conditions, crocodile-infested swamps, and their own personalities.
PICTURING HOME
Writer,
Co-Producer:
Marcus Gillezeau
Producer/Director:
Annette Cohen
Co-Producer:
Richard Wilmot
Forty-year old Jai is articulate and intelligent. As she takes us on a tour of her regular haunts in inner-Sydney, we learn how she survived, together with the disturbing mental health issues she faced. A chance meeting with a data scientist Mike Alwright, who runs a photography competition in his spare time, leads Jai on a journey of empowerment through the love of photography. We walk with Jai towards her ultimate dream of putting on a solo exhibition and what that represents for her brighter future.
HELL BENTO
Associate Producer:
Marcus Gillezeau
Co-Directors:
Andrew Sully
Anna Broinowski
Writers:
Adam Broinowski
Anna Broinowski
FESTIVALS
Tampere International Short Film Festival (1996)
Creteil Film Des Femmes Festival (1996)
Sydney Film Festival (1995)
Hawaii International Film Festival (1995)
Columbus International Film & Video Festival (1995)
CAST AND CREW
An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture, recounting the testimonies of those who are stubbornly "left behind" or considered as deviant or on the margins of the Japanese society of the 90s, HELL BENTO stands as a true kaleidoscope of all these subcultures.
With little means, DIY and modest staging, the protagonists are the very actors of this culture polarized by a society still traumatized by the failure of WW2 and suffering from a difficult economic period known as "Japan's Lost Decade".
"Hell Bento" is segmented into several parts: gender, family, art, speed, money and nation. The film profiles the LGBTQ community, the Yakuza and the mythic 5678s band - an embodiment of Western infatuation. It also focuses on the homeless crisis, the underground music scene and even the wave of pessimism at the origin of a new nationalist wave in favour of the return of traditional Japan. The interviews and testimonies are as touching as they are cynical.
MY HOME, YOUR WAR
Producer:
Marcus Gillezeau
Chantal Denoux
Director:
Kylie Grey
FESTIVALS
Mumbai International Film Festival (2008)
New York Festivals (2007)
Women’s International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea (2007)
WT Os International Film Festival, Oslo, Norway (2007)
AWARDS
AU TV ATOM, Best Doc: Social & Political Issues Australian TV
ATOM, Best Doc: Human Story
Gold World Medal, Best Doc in NY (2007)
European Independent FF, Best Int’l Doc
CAST AND CREW
Shot in Baghdad over 3 years – before, during and after the Coalition attack on Iraq, MY HOME, YOUR WAR takes us inside the home of an Iraqi family as they deal with the disruptions and terrors of war as it affects their daily lives.
Layla Hasan, 40, husband Yasir and teenage son, Amro, live in Adhamiya, the heartland of Sunni Muslim resistance against US forces in Baghdad. Layla is a middle class Iraqi woman. Striking and intelligent, she speaks four languages. Layla had little choice when she was hand-picked to work as a translator for Saddam’s regime.
When the US forces arrived she hoped they might offer a path to freedom. Yet now the war is testing her most intimate relationships.
THE GUNNERY
The Gunnery was the biggest and most prolific underground artist run collective in Australian art history. Neither before, nor since has any group or venue risen to the scale of productivity, infamy and success as The Gunnery between 1985-1991.
At its zenith, more than 40 practicing painters, musicians, performers, photographers and filmmakers lived and practiced in what was to become a true artists colony and movement. Monthly public events, rock gigs, film nights, a year-round art gallery and annual arts festival drew in crowds in their thousands.
But the dream of holding onto this stunning ‘castle by the sea’ would soon be under threat and the eviction notice was served.
This is one of the great untold stories in Australian art history. A six year battle of mainstream versus underground, of opposing ideals and ideology, of artist versus government; all played out against a backdrop of a city undergoing rapid gentrification and a slowly maturing nation.
Two tribes would battle it out for the building with the victor taking possession and ultimately succeeding in creating a thriving arts centre that runs to this day.
