11 Facts About Pip Karmel

Philippa "Pip" Karmel was born on 27 March 1963 and is an Australian filmmaker.

Pip Karmel has directed and written several films, including Me Myself I, which was released internationally.

Pip Karmel worked for editor Andrew Prowse on several films including Call Me Mr Brown, which was Scott Hicks' first feature film.

Pip Karmel subsequently studied film directing and editing at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.

Pip Karmel interrupted her studies to edit Hicks' feature Sebastian and the Sparrow, which was her first feature credit as an editor.

Pip Karmel directed an episode, The Long Ride, for the Australian television program Under the Skin; the episode won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Tele-feature.

Pip Karmel worked throughout the 1990s on the film Me Myself I, which she wrote and directed.

Pip Karmel's script explores the choices made by an unmarried woman who has become a successful journalist; in the film, the woman enters an "alternate reality" in which she is married to a former beau and has three children.

Pip Karmel has written a screenplay for a film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 novel, Year of Wonders, which is a story of a 17th-century plague year in an English village.

Pip Karmel's editing of Shine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award, and it won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Achievement in Editing.

For Me Myself I, Pip Karmel was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and for Best Screenplay.