Geoff Burrowes

Australian filmmaker

Geoff Burrowes (born 1945) is an Australian filmmaker best known for the movie The Man from Snowy River (1982) and the TV mini-series Anzacs (1985); he was a founding partner of the Burrowes Film Group.^[1]

Biography

Burrowes was a journalist who graduated from Monash University in 1970 and worked at Crawford Productions for four years. He spent a year as private secretary to Moss Cass and then worked in advertising with Philip Adams for three years.^[2]

Burrowes decided to make a feature film which resulted in the $2.6 million Man from Snowy River (1982). This was a huge success at the box office and enabled Burrowes to expand his operations with the Burrowes Film Group. The most successful of these was the mini series Anzacs and a sequel to Snowy River. However feature films Cool Change, Running from the Guns and Ground Zero did less well.

Burrowes went to Hollywood and directed a film there, Run. Burrowes disliked the experience.^[3]

He has since retired from filmmaking.^[4]

Select Credits

The Man from Snowy River (1982) - producer, story
Anzacs (1985) - producer
Cool Change (1985) - producer
Running from the Guns (1987) - producer
Backstage (1988) - producer
The Man from Snowy River II (1988) - writer, director, producer
Run (1991) - director

References

^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p64
^ "The saga of the man from Merrijig". The Age. 12 April 1986. p. Extra 7.
^ "Our man in LA". The Age. 21 October 1990. p. 25.
^ Jason Dowling, 'Like the colt of old Regret, a minister bolts', The Age, 27 January 2008 accessed 9 Oct 2012