Peter Andrikidis is an Australian film and television director, and producer.

Early life and education

Andrikidis went to the Sydney high school Drummoyne Boys High School in the mid-1970s, where he made a small film called "Nemesis". He graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Film Direction in 1981.

Career

Immediately after graduation from AFTRS, Andrikidis was recruited to Crawford Productions, where he worked on '' The Flying Doctors''. He moved to the

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(ABC), where he worked as director and producer on the medical drama series ''

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'', which earned him his first Australian Film Institute Award (AFI Award). This was followed by the police drama series '' Wildside'', then two series of the comedy/drama series '' Grass Roots''. Andrikidis has also directed a number of TV mini-series and telemovies. These included the real life dramatisations ''My Husband, My Killer'' (about the

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), ''Heroes' Mountain - The Thredbo Story'' (about the Thredbo landslide), and ''Jessica'', an adaptation of the novel '' Jessica'' by Bryce Courtenay, starring

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and released in 2004. In 2004 and 2005, Andrikidis directed five telemovies in the '' BlackJack'' series and in 2006 he directed '' The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant'' miniseries, which was a co-production between Network Ten and the British

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- ITV. In 2007, Andrikidis directed the SBS drama series '' East West 101''Knapman Wyld Television Pty Ltd
and several episodes of the first series of '' Underbelly''. In 2008, he directed the

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mini-series '' False Witness'' and the feature film '' Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos''. He has also been set-up director of a number of Australian productions, including ''

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'', '' Water Rats'', '' Halifax f.p.'', '' The Straits, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms'', '' Fat Tony & Co.'', '' Janet King'', '' Catching Milat'', and American productions which were produced in Australia such as '' BeastMaster'', ''

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'' and HBO's ''Serangoon Road.'' In 2015, he directed the Australian-produced feature film, ''

Alex & Eve ''Alex & Eve'' is a 2016 Australian comedy-drama and romance film, directed by Peter Andrikidis and written by Alex Lykos, based on his play of the same name. The film is about dating in a multicultural landscape when Greek Orthodox school teac ...

''. In 2019, he directed an episode of the French-American series, '' Reef Break''. Andrikidis directed ''Hyde & Seek'' for MatchBox, Universal NBC and the Nine Network.

Awards

, Andrikidis had won 26 awards and been nominated for 17. In 2001 he was awarded a

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for "Outstanding services to Australian Society and Film Production".

References

External links

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Peter Andrikidis
at Screen Australia website {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrikidis, Peter Australian people of Greek descent Australian television directors Australian television producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Centenary Medal