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Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe are award winning and AACTA nominated filmmakers based in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They studied filmmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts \u2013 School of Film and Television, and AFTRS (the Australian Film, Television and Radio School) and have been producing and directing commercials, factual television series and documentaries for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adelaide FIlm Festival 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Australian Screen Producers Awards Night 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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St Petersburg, Russia – 2016 Side by Side Gay and Lesbian Film Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eleanor was invited to Singapore to attend a special screening of MAMIL<\/em> at the 2017 Bicycle Film Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nickolas promoting MAMIL<\/em> on ABC News Breakfast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Filming MAMIL<\/em> at the Grand Canyon, AZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nickolas filming with Phil Liggett in the Kruger National Park, South Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eleanor filming MAMIL<\/em> in the Pyrenees, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nickolas filming Phil Liggett: The Voice of Cycling<\/em> at the Tour de France in 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nickolas filming Ballroom Rules<\/em> at the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eleanor filming in Arizona with Marianne Martin, the winner of the 1984 Women’s Tour de France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Celebrating winning an ATOM Award at the 2016 Awards gala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wrapping our European shooting block in Venice 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Meet the Filmmakers Q&A at Cinema Nova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eleanor attending the AACTA Awards Night after Remembering the Man<\/em> was nominated for Best Documentary and Best Editing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe are award winning and AACTA nominated filmmakers based in Melbourne, Australia. They studied filmmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts \u2013 School of Film and Television, and AFTRS (the Australian Film, Television and Radio School) and have been producing and directing commercials, factual television series and documentaries for more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterbyrdfilmz.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterbyrdfilmz.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterbyrdfilmz.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterbyrdfilmz.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterbyrdfilmz.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/waterbyrdfilmz.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/waterbyrdfilmz.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterbyrdfilmz.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}