13 Facts About Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Amiel Courtin-Wilson has directed over 20 short films and several feature films.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson is a musician, music producer, and visual artist.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson made his first film at age nine years old, and attended Elwood College, a state secondary school, from 1992 to 1997.

At the age of 17, Courtin-Wilson won the Longford Nova Award at the 1996 St Kilda Film Festival for his co-directed half-hour documentary Almost 18.

At 19, Amiel Courtin-Wilson wrote, directed and produced his debut feature documentary Chasing Buddha, about his aunt Robina Courtin, a Buddhist nun.

Since the beginning of his career Amiel Courtin-Wilson has been involved in the Australian arts, directing work for Opera Australia and Chunky Move, screening his films at the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales and exhibiting as a visual artist.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson's co-directed documentary Islands, about second-generation Samoan Australians, premiered at the Museum of Natural History, New York.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson has contributed to national and international film and art magazines and has lectured at universities across Australia as well as overseas.

In 2008 Amiel Courtin-Wilson formed a Melbourne-based production entity called Flood Projects, with the aim of fostering "collectivist and artist-driven film making practice in Australia".

In 2012 Amiel Courtin-Wilson directed film sequences that featured in the East Timorese theatre production Doku Rai.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson directed The Silent Eye, which premiered at the Whitney Museum in 2016 and screened at several film festivals and museums.

In 2020 Amiel Courtin-Wilson created a moving-image work called Burn, as well as a feature-length film Eden Eden Eden at 50 about the novel by French author Pierre Guyotat.

Amiel Courtin-Wilson is a member of Badfaith, a virtual reality collective of video artists.