1. Ivan Sen was born on 1972 and is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker.
15 Facts About Ivan Sen
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Ivan Sen is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer, as well as an editor, composer, and sound designer.
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Ivan Sen is co-founder and director of Bunya Productions, and known for the 2013 film Mystery Road, its sequel Goldstone, and the 2023 mystery-crime film Limbo.
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Ivan Sen was born in 1972 in Nambour, Queensland, the second child of Donella and Duro Sen.
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Ivan Sen's mother Donella belongs to the Gamilaroi nation of northern New South Wales, and Duro was born in Croatia to a German father and Hungarian mother.
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For eight years Ivan Sen lived in Tamworth with his mother and two siblings, in an area called Vegemite Village.
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The family still visited Toomelah occasionally, and Ivan Sen enjoyed popularity and friendship with all kinds of children, both black and white, rich and poor.
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Ivan Sen's mother married a newspaper editor, who gave him an old camera and lessons on photography and film-processing.
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Soon Ivan Sen was working for a newspaper and later enrolled in a photography diploma course at Griffith University, Brisbane.
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Ivan Sen moved on to film school at the same university and, one year later, to the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney.
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Ivan Sen went on to produce numerous short films throughout the late 1990s, including TV documentaries for SBS and the ABC.
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Ivan Sen worked with producer David Jowsey, who commissioned his first feature film, Beneath Clouds.
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In 2018, Ivan Sen acted as executive producer on the ABC TV production of Mystery Road, a six-part series based on characters featured in the movie of the same name and sequel.
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Toomelah, tells the story of Daniel, a 9-year-old Aboriginal boy living in the community where Ivan Sen's mother was born and grew up in.
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In recognition to his contribution to the town of Winton in Central West Queensland where Mystery Road and Goldstone were filmed, Ivan Sen was honoured with a star on Winton's Walk of Fame during The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in 2016.