Peter Andrikidis is an Australian film and television director, and producer.

Early life and education

Andrikidis went to the Sydney high school Drummoyne Boys High School in the mid-1970s, where he made a small film called "Nemesis". He graduated from the

Australian Film Television and Radio School The Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), formerly Australian Film and Television School, is Australia's national screen arts and broadcast school. Opened to students in 1973 as Film and Television School (FTS), after accredita ...

(AFTRS) in Film Direction in 1981.

Career

Immediately after graduation from AFTRS, Andrikidis was recruited to

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, where he worked on '' The Flying Doctors''. He moved to the

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(ABC), where he worked as director and producer on the medical drama series '' G.P.'', which earned him his first Australian Film Institute Award (AFI Award). This was followed by the police drama series '' Wildside'', then two series of the comedy/drama series '' Grass Roots''. Andrikidis has also directed a number of TV mini-series and telemovies. These included the real life dramatisations '' My Husband, My Killer'' (about the murder of Megan Kalajzich), '' Heroes' Mountain - The Thredbo Story'' (about the Thredbo landslide), and ''Jessica'', an adaptation of the novel '' Jessica'' by

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, starring

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and released in 2004. In 2004 and 2005, Andrikidis directed five telemovies in the '' BlackJack'' series and in 2006 he directed '' The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant'' miniseries, which was a co-production between

Network Ten Network 10 (commonly known as the 10 Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's Paramount Networks UK & Australia, UK & Australia division and is o ...

and the British

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- ITV. In 2007, Andrikidis directed the SBS drama series '' East West 101''Knapman Wyld Television Pty Ltd
and several episodes of the first series of '' Underbelly''. In 2008, he directed the UK.TV mini-series '' False Witness'' and the feature film '' Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos''. He has also been set-up director of a number of Australian productions, including ''

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'', '' Water Rats'', '' Halifax f.p.'', '' The Straits, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms'', '' Fat Tony & Co.'', '' Janet King'', '' Catching Milat'', and American productions which were produced in Australia such as '' BeastMaster'', ''

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'' and HBO's ''Serangoon Road.'' In 2015, he directed the Australian-produced feature film, ''

Alex & Eve ''Alex & Eve'' is a 2015 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Peter Andrikidis and written by Alex Lykos based on Lykos's 2006 play of the same name. The film adaptation was released in October 2015 by producer, Murray Fahey's distribution ...

''. In 2019, he directed an episode of the French-American series, '' Reef Break''. Andrikidis directed ''Hyde & Seek'' for MatchBox, Universal NBC and the Nine Network.

Awards

, Andrikidis had won 26 awards and been nominated for 17. In 2001 he was awarded a

Centenary Medal The Centenary Medal is an award which was created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia and to recognise "people who made a contribution to Australian society or g ...

for "Outstanding services to Australian Society and Film Production".

References

External links

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