Billy
MacKinnon has written or produced four internationally successful feature
films, and script edited many more, including Jane Campion’s Oscar-winning ‘The
Piano’. Among his clients are BBC films, Australian Film Commission, Joint
Venture Zurich, Gaumont Paris, Scottish screen, and Jan Chapman productions,
Sydney. He has garnered numerous international writing awards including best
European film (Rotterdam Tiger) and best British film (Edinburgh). He has
served as an academic editor in social anthropology for the Max Planck
Institute and Humboldt University Berlin, and traveled and worked extensively
in Australia, Europe, Africa, and Central Asia. His most recent feature film
‘Dawn’ , based on the novel by Nobel Laureate Elie Weisel, was shot in Tel Aviv
and Cologne, completed in 2014, and premiered at Geneva, Washington, and
Houston film festivals. In addition, he has worked as poet/songwriter for
numerous performance art/dance groups in Zurich, Berlin, and Seoul. His present
feature film is set in Cameroon and planned for production 2017, funded from
Bern/Geneva.
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