Samuel Van Grinsven is a New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter,
[Sean Slatter]
"Samuel Van Grinsven’s ‘Went Up the Hill’ to join Rebel Wilson’s ‘The Deb’ at TIFF"
''IF Magazine
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'', 23 July 2024. whose debut feature film ''
Sequin in a Blue Room
''Sequin in a Blue Room'' is a 2019 Australian independent queer coming-of-age, mystery and drama film directed by Samuel Van Grinsven, in his feature film debut. It was written by Van Grinsven and Jory Anast. The film stars Conor Leach in his ...
'' was released in 2019.
[James Kleinman]
"Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven on his seductive queer coming-of-age tale Sequin in a Blue Room"
''The Queer Review'', 11 April 2021.
A graduate of the
Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Van Grinsven made ''Sequin in a Blue Room'' as his graduation project. Centred on the coming-of-age of a gay teenager, the film was based on Van Grinsven's own experiences growing up
queer
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in a conservative part of Australia.
[ The film premiered in June 2019 at the 66th Sydney Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Audience Award for best Australian narrative feature. It was an AACTA Award nominee for Best Indie Film at the ]9th AACTA Awards
The 9th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as the AACTA Awards) is an award's ceremony to celebrate the best of Australian films and television of 2019. The main ceremony was held at The Star (Sydney), The St ...
, and received commercial distribution in Australia in 2020 before going into wider international distribution in 2021.[Peter DeBruge]
"‘Sequin in a Blue Room’ Review: A Striking, Highly Stylized Plunge Into 21st-Century Gay Hookup Culture"
'' Variety'', 21 May 2021.
His second feature film, '' Went Up the Hill'', is slated to premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.[
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1993 births
Living people
21st-century Australian screenwriters
21st-century Australian male writers
21st-century Australian LGBT people
Film directors from Sydney
Writers from Sydney
Australian male screenwriters
Australian LGBT film directors
Australian LGBT screenwriters
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