Alan King(IV)
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Award winning filmmaker and actor, who has performed on stage, film and television for over 30 years, with credits in productions such as; Neighbours, A Country Practice, The Secret Life Of Us, Crashburn, Blue Heelers, Stingers, City Homicide, Rush, Killing Time and Underbelly. Also an accomplished painter, King completed his Bachelor of Fine Art (major in painting) from the prestigious fine art school, The Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. Following art school, he found himself gravitating to the medium of filmmaking, relishing the opportunity to amalgamate both his performance and fine art skills.
In 2013 King formed his production company White Cube Picture Lab with a mission to create intimate, avant-garde storytelling for the screen. Tending to work outside conventional filmmaking frameworks, King is a true maverick, often performing multiple roles on a single project from director, cinematographer, sound designer, editor and actor. He even designs the artwork for his films posters. Production multitasking, regular choices of stark and finite location settings, coupled with compelling and profound themes and characters, that have a strange habit of suffusing into an audiences psyche, have all lead to King's progression, as a new audacious and striking voice in the filmmaking community.
King's highly acclaimed films have picked up distribution deals through companies such as Hewes Pictures, Flickerfest Distribution and Indieflix. His work has screened on national commercial television on the SBS network and has played at some of the world's most prestigious film festivals including Moscow, Cinequest, Bogota, Las Vegas, Flickerfest, Sao Paulo, Black Maria and New Orleans. His short film works were recently acquired by The Australian National Film and Sound Archive for their permanent collection.
King's 2019 short 'Wild Will, (which was shot solo in the kitchen of his apartment), world premiered at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival in the Lab Competition. The film went on to screen in competition at over 50 festivals both locally and worldwide incl; Tampere, Encounters, Brisbane, Dresden, Bucharest, Canton, Festival Tous Courts, Cannes Antipodes, St Kilda, Wales Horror and Tallinn Black Nights as one of seven shorts selected for their new cutting edge 'Rebels With A Cause' competition.
Awards for the film include the Jury Prize for 'Innovation in Form' at the 2019 Brisbane Int'l Film Festival, 'Best Experimental Film' at the 2019 Castrovillari Int'l Film Festival and the Jury Award for 'Best Short Film' at the IV edition of Short Days 2020 in Rome, curated under the theme 'La Pers Istenz Adella Visione' - The Persistence Of Vision - focusing on "The ability of certain artists to create films practically by themselves, against everything and every law of the market and industry and still be able to create works capable of influencing others and the history of cinema".
Rolling Stone and Washington Post journalist Fillippo Venturi labeled 'Wild Will' "un piccolo capolavoro" - a small masterpiece.
Respected French Cinema publication Ecran Noir named 'Wild Will' as a highlight of the 2019 Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival, and also went on to later list the film as one of their Top-Ten foreign short films for the year.
As a screenwriter King has completed numerous short and feature film scripts. Highlights include an Academy Nicholl Quarter-Finalist placement for his screenplay 'The Milk Bar', and an Australian Writers Guild Monte Miller nomination and Bluecat Screenplay Semi-Finalist placement, for his screenplay 'Leo's Dream'
In 2018 King was inducted into the prestigious Australian Writers Guild, Pathways program, a platform designed to showcase the very best in Australian screenwriting talent.
In 2013 King formed his production company White Cube Picture Lab with a mission to create intimate, avant-garde storytelling for the screen. Tending to work outside conventional filmmaking frameworks, King is a true maverick, often performing multiple roles on a single project from director, cinematographer, sound designer, editor and actor. He even designs the artwork for his films posters. Production multitasking, regular choices of stark and finite location settings, coupled with compelling and profound themes and characters, that have a strange habit of suffusing into an audiences psyche, have all lead to King's progression, as a new audacious and striking voice in the filmmaking community.
King's highly acclaimed films have picked up distribution deals through companies such as Hewes Pictures, Flickerfest Distribution and Indieflix. His work has screened on national commercial television on the SBS network and has played at some of the world's most prestigious film festivals including Moscow, Cinequest, Bogota, Las Vegas, Flickerfest, Sao Paulo, Black Maria and New Orleans. His short film works were recently acquired by The Australian National Film and Sound Archive for their permanent collection.
King's 2019 short 'Wild Will, (which was shot solo in the kitchen of his apartment), world premiered at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival in the Lab Competition. The film went on to screen in competition at over 50 festivals both locally and worldwide incl; Tampere, Encounters, Brisbane, Dresden, Bucharest, Canton, Festival Tous Courts, Cannes Antipodes, St Kilda, Wales Horror and Tallinn Black Nights as one of seven shorts selected for their new cutting edge 'Rebels With A Cause' competition.
Awards for the film include the Jury Prize for 'Innovation in Form' at the 2019 Brisbane Int'l Film Festival, 'Best Experimental Film' at the 2019 Castrovillari Int'l Film Festival and the Jury Award for 'Best Short Film' at the IV edition of Short Days 2020 in Rome, curated under the theme 'La Pers Istenz Adella Visione' - The Persistence Of Vision - focusing on "The ability of certain artists to create films practically by themselves, against everything and every law of the market and industry and still be able to create works capable of influencing others and the history of cinema".
Rolling Stone and Washington Post journalist Fillippo Venturi labeled 'Wild Will' "un piccolo capolavoro" - a small masterpiece.
Respected French Cinema publication Ecran Noir named 'Wild Will' as a highlight of the 2019 Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival, and also went on to later list the film as one of their Top-Ten foreign short films for the year.
As a screenwriter King has completed numerous short and feature film scripts. Highlights include an Academy Nicholl Quarter-Finalist placement for his screenplay 'The Milk Bar', and an Australian Writers Guild Monte Miller nomination and Bluecat Screenplay Semi-Finalist placement, for his screenplay 'Leo's Dream'
In 2018 King was inducted into the prestigious Australian Writers Guild, Pathways program, a platform designed to showcase the very best in Australian screenwriting talent.
