ADRIAN CARR DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY Adrian’s career began at the ABC in Australia where he cut his teeth in the editing room before moving on to Crawford Productions where he won the Television Society of Australia's Award for Drama Editing on “The Far Country” mini-series. While at Crawford's he produced and directed, The Spiders, a 40- minute black comedy that was highly praised by the film critic of The Melbourne Age. Then Adrian segued into editing commercials and International feature films including the hits, The Man From Snowy River, D.A.R.Y.L., The Lighthorsemen and Quigley Down Under. His feature film debut as director was “Now and Forever” starring Cheryl Ladd, followed by the successful The Sword of Bushido an action adventure set in Thailand. His short film, Permanent Stays, won the ACS Gold Award for Best Drama. After moving to Los Angeles with his wife, Adrian directed the pilot and first episodes of the television phenomenon, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, as well as episodes of the Warner Bros. International TV series The New Adventures of Robin Hood. With the rise in popularity of interactive movie games Adrian directed, photographed and edited the live-action sequences of The Pandora Directive, which won Adventure Game of the Year, and is considered to be one of the best computer games ever created. Adrian followed this with the sequel, Tex Murphy - Overseer. From this Adrian went on to direct John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Christian Slater, Anne Archer and Sarah Michelle Gellar, as they supplied the voices for an upcoming 3-D animation film, A Light Knight's Odyssey, Then came Mind Games, an indie feature starring James Wilder, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Norton and Joe Estevez. This was followed by Blood Makes Noise, a 29-minute suspense thriller that has been doing well on the festival circuit picking up an award for best suspense. As a favor to a friend he returned to the editing room to cut the award winning indie Guarding Eddy. Recently Adrian has been putting the finishing touches to half a dozen screenplays he has been developing and co-writing with his writing partner, Cecil Cannon including the feature version of Blood Makes Noise. At the same time Adrian is also a successful head shot photographer and the official photographer for the British Film and Television Academy here in Los Angeles. You can see examples of his work on his website at www.TallordersFilmProductions.com. He also teaches an on-camera master scene class for actors at the Van Mar Academy in Hollywood. He is currently in preproduction on Life with Oscar, a comedy/drama feature being produced by Rosemary Marks [Thirteen], the feature version of The Pelagian Directive and Talkarra - Legend of the Boomerang, a sci-fi adventure movie to be lensed in Australia. Contact: Adrian Carr - Ph:323/936-2081 - Email:[email protected].