Kriv Stenders Kriv Stenders i(A87538 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon The Correspondent Peter Duncan , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Pop Family Entertainment , 2024 28434848 2024 single work film/TV

'Xmas Eve, 2014, in the shadow of the Great Pryamids of Egypt and Australian journalist, Peter Greste, is reporting from this most dangerous city on earth where bloody daily clashes between student revolutionaries and the government take place. No-one is safe. What Peter Greste doesn't know on that first night as he files his news across the globe is that he is the target and within a few hours he would be arrested, strip searched, despatched to a dungeon and accused of multiple crimes of terrorism, each one of which carried the death penalty. Welcome to Cairo.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon NCIS : Sydney Morgan O'Neill , Andrew Anastasios , Tamara Asmar , Michael Miller , James Cripps , Clare Sladden , Kim Ho , ( dir. Shawn Seet et. al. )agent Australia : CBS Endemol Australia Network Ten Paramount Pictures , 2023 27144664 2023 series - publisher film/TV crime

'With rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multinational taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet. Our team of Americans and Aussies must quickly learn to trust each other, overcoming and harnessing their differences to solve each case. Welcome to NCIS: SYDNEY.'

Source: CBS Studios.

1 form y separately published work icon Between Two Worlds Bevan Lee , ( dir. Caroline Bell Booth et. al. )agent Australia : Seven Network , 2020 20705162 2020 series - publisher film/TV

'An intense, high concept contemporary drama series about two disparate and disconnected worlds, thrown together by death and a sacrifice in one and the chance for new life in the other. Bold, daring, emotionally gripping, fast paced and unpredictable, BETWEEN TWO WORLDS will push the boundaries of popular commercial drama in Australia.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 1 form y separately published work icon Slim and I Kriv Stenders , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Pictures in Paradise Slim Dusty Enterprises , 2020 20386031 2020 single work film/TV

'For over 50 years country music legend Slim Dusty and his wife Joy McKean trail-blazed their way across Australia performing, writing and collecting songs of the bush and its people. They created a musical legacy that to this day continues to entertain and inspire, a catalogue of plain speaking yet profoundly insightful music documenting the rural Australian experience. Theirs is perhaps one of the greatest partnerships in Australian music history. SLIM and I is a feature documentary that tells the incredible story of that partnership and of the woman who lived beside, rather than behind, the legend. Australia's own "Queen of Country Music", Joy McKean.' (Production summary)

1 5 form y separately published work icon Danger Close : The Battle of Long Tan Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Brainstorm Media Full Clip Productions Red Dune Films , 2019 9188867 2019 single work film/TV

A film centred on the Battle of Long Tan, on the 18th of August 1966.

1 1 form y separately published work icon The Go-Betweens : Right Here Kriv Stenders , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Essential Media and Entertainment , 2017 11996415 2017 single work film/TV

The Go-Betweens : Right Here is the feature length documentary about the people who created the seminal rock band the Go-Betweens. It is a heartfelt story of discovery, uncovering the intensely passionate, creative and fraught relationships that formed one of the most loved and influential bands in Australian rock history. It is also the universal story of a great creative adventure that spanned three decades, through countless successes, failures, romances, break-ups, betrayals, triumphs and tragedies (Screen Australia). 

1 8 form y separately published work icon Wake In Fright Stephen M. Irwin , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Lingo Pictures Endemol Australia Network Ten , 2017 10031059 2017 series - publisher film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Doctor Doctor The Heart Guy Tony McNamara , Alice Bell , Liz Doran , Tamara Asmar , Angela McDonald , Gretel Vella , Timothy Lee , Keith Thompson , Josh Mapleston , Mithila Gupta , Katherine Thomson , ( dir. Peter Salmon et. al. )agent New South Wales : Essential Media and Entertainment Nine Network , 2016-2020 9516037 2016 series - publisher film/TV

'When he is knocked off his pedestal and on to the Impaired Registrants Program, prodigal Sydney surgeon and party boy Hugh Knight must return to his family home in rural Whyhope where he might learn to swallow his pride and mend his ways – or not.'

Source: Production blurb.

1 13 form y separately published work icon Jack Irish Andrew Anastasios , Matt Cameron , Andrew Knight , Elise McCredie , ( dir. Kieran Darcy-Smith et. al. )agent 2016 Australia : Essential Media and Entertainment , 2016- 9260516 2016 series - publisher film/TV crime

Jack Irish becomes entangled in a missing persons case, which leads to a false accusation of murder, and a mystery that stretches to a remote village in the Philippines.

1 4 form y separately published work icon Australia Day Stephen M. Irwin , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Foxtel Hoodlum Entertainment , 2016 9215931 2016 single work film/TV

'As a sweltering Australia Day dawns over Brisbane, three seemingly unconnected figures – a farmer (Bryan Brown), an Indigenous policewoman (Shari Sebbens) and an illegal Chinese immigrant (Jenny Wu) – are thrown together by chance and misfortune. As their stories arc and connect, they'll find themselves drawn into a web of racism, violence and simmering resentment that will leave none of them unscathed, and challenge everything they thought they knew about the country they call home.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 20 form y separately published work icon Red Dog : True Blue Blue Dog Daniel Taplitz , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Woss Group Film Productions Pty Ltd Roadshow Films , 2016 7423729 2016 single work film/TV

'The early events leading up to Red Dog’s discovery on the road to Dampier and his ultimate rise from ordinary dog to Australian legend.' (Production synopsis)

1 Kriv Stenders : The Director of Red Dog : True Blue Picks His Five Favourite Animal Movies Kriv Stenders , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 30 December 2016;
1 7 form y separately published work icon The Principal Kristen Dunphy , Alice Addison , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Sydney : Essential Media and Entertainment , 2015 8238841 2015 series - publisher film/TV

'The Principal is a story of intrigue and personal identity set against the backdrop of a boys high school in turmoil in South West Sydney.

'Matt Bashir, history teacher and former Deputy at a prestigious girls’ school, is swiftly promoted to the position of Principal of Boxdale Boys High. Boxdale is a troubled school with a history of conflict and Matt is determined to turn it around but his attempts at reform are met with scepticism and in some quarters, hostility from his beleaguered colleagues. But just when it seems he is making progress, a 17-year-old student is found dead on the school grounds.'

Source: Production company's blurb.

1 5 form y separately published work icon Kill Me Three Times James McFarland , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : KM3T Pty Ltd Stable Way Entertainment Feisty Dame Productions Parabolic Pictures Media House Capital Cargo Entertainment , 2014 Z1912230 2014 single work film/TV thriller crime

'Gruesome and hilarious, Kill Me Three Times is a blackly comic neo-noir that unfolds in an Australian surfing town under a blinding sun — all the better to illuminate its cleverly designed network of malfeasance.

'A dental surgeon (Sullivan Stapleton) with gambling debts and a conniving spouse (Teresa Palmer), a hunky gas jockey (Luke Hemsworth) looking to skip town with his secret lover, a corrupt cop (Bryan Brown), a motel proprietor (Callan Mulvey) who's become excessively proprietary over his wife: each of these characters has a scheme to realize, and each scheme requires the elimination of the same woman (Alice Braga) — though she seems to have a scheme of her own. Involved in all these sordid transactions is one Mister Wolfe (Simon Pegg), a seasoned professional in the practice of snooping and, for the right price, murder.' (Production summary)

1 70 form y separately published work icon Red Dog Daniel Taplitz , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Woss Group Film Productions Pty Ltd , 2011 Z1769568 2011 single work film/TV

'Based on the true story of a nomadic red kelpie that won the hearts of hundreds of West Australian outback residents.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 14 form y separately published work icon Lucky Country Dark Frontier Andy Cox , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Smoking Gun Productions , 2009 Z1564371 2009 single work film/TV thriller historical fiction western

'1902 … the Australian Federation is a year old. 12-year-old Tom's beloved father Nat has dragged him and his sister Sarah to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat’s dream of living off the land has died and he is losing his grip on sanity. When three ex-soldiers arrive at their cabin one night Tom, like his father, believes they are providence. “Your mother always said never turn away strangers, they may be angels in disguise…”

'But their presence becomes more menacing when one of them reveals a secret: he's found gold. As the lure of gold infects everyone around him the cabin becomes a psychological battleground in which Tom’s loyalty is put to the ultimate test.'

Source: Smoking Gun Productions press kit. (Sighted: 19/8/2013)

1 9 form y separately published work icon Boxing Day Richard Green , Kriv Stenders , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Smoking Gun Productions , 2007 Z1360872 2007 single work film/TV 'Boxing Day is the story of a father's impassioned struggle to reunite his estranged family over the course of a single afternoon. Living alone on home detention, Chris Sykes is preparing Christmas lunch for his teenage daughter when an old friend turns up at his doorstep and exposes the disturbing truth about his ex-wife's new boyfriend. The film unfolds in real time, documenting in authentic, painstaking detail, the harrowing journey of a divided family on the verge of disintegration. As the situation slowly and inevitability escalates we are drawn into the compelling story of a father who finally exposes the dark and disturbing secret that has torn his family apart.' Source: www.gadigal.org.au (Sighted 28/03/2007).
1 1 form y separately published work icon Blacktown Kriv Stenders , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Pod Film Pty Ltd , 2005 Z1805688 2005 single work film/TV 'Office secretary Nikki Moore has become disillusioned with love. She decides to break up with her married boyfriend and nearly gives up hope of ever discovering a meaningful relationship. That's until she meets Tony, and finds love and romance in a desperate world.' (Source: Screen Australia)
1 8 form y separately published work icon The Illustrated Family Doctor David Snell , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Pod Films , 2005 Z1180463 2005 single work film/TV

'THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY DOCTOR, based on the novel by David Snell, is a dark and irreverent comedy about illness, work, death and a young man who learns to survive it all. It is a modern fable that looks at what holds us together when everything else is falling apart.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 4/12/2013)

1 1 form y separately published work icon Two/Out Kriv Stenders , Troy Davies , Sydney : Pod Film Pty Ltd , 1998 Z1665299 1998 single work film/TV Jack and Tom are cell mates. Their fragile bond begins to unravel when Jack falls in love with a plastic bag. Tom, unable to understand or accept Jack's dementia, is driven by fear and jealousy to a brutal confrontation.
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