Miro Bilbrough
- Additional Crew
- Director
- Writer
Before becoming a filmmaker, Miro Bilbrough worked as an art curator,
an art critic, a film journalist, a cook, a bar tender and briefly, in
a fish factory. She also published her poetry extensively in New
Zealand, her country of birth. Her first short film URN (1996), is an
adaptation of one of her poems. It was made after she settled in
Sydney, where it gained theatrical release. As writer-director her
other credits are Floodhouse (2004), a short feature film, and Bartleby (2000), an
adaptation of Herman Melville's classic tale (Silver Medal for Fiction,
Bilbao International Film Festival, Spain, 2001). Other film credits
include the BAFTA-nominated children's animation _Bad Baby Amy (2001)_, which she
wrote, and as co-writer, the docu-dramas Car Crash (David Caesar) and
The Fifth Continent. She also wrote the coffee table book for Baz
Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge.