Fred Schepisi

Fred's most recent project was 2014's 'Words & Pictures', with Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche.

In 2011 he directed 'The Eye of the Storm', based on the novel by acclaimed author Patrick White about children finally understanding themselves through the context of family, and starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis and Geoffrey Rush.

The film won the Jury Prize at Rome International Film Festival in November 2011.

Resides in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [March 2004]

Fred also directed the screen adaptation of John Guare's play 'Six Degrees of Separation' (1993) starring Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland and Will Smith.

Baseball' (1992), 'IQ' (1994), 'Fierce Creatures' (1996), 'Last Orders' (2001) and 'It Runs in the Family' (2002).

His other film credits include 'The Russia House' (1990), 'Mr.

'A Cry in the Dark', 1988).

where he directed 'Barbarosa' (1981), 'Iceman' (1983), 'Plenty' (1985), and 'Roxanne' (1987) before returning to Australia to co-write and direct 'Evil Angels' (a. k. a.

The success of his second film 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith' (1978) took Fred to the U. S.

Fred Schepisi began his production career in the advertising world in Melbourne, Australia, where he served as head of the Film House for almost 20 years, directing both commercials and documentaries. His first feature-length film was the semi-autobiographical 'The Devil's Playground' (1976) which won 6 AFI awards including Best Film and established Fred's reputation as a talented director and writer.

His wife Mary Rubin (b. Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, March 6, 1949), daughter of Polish Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants, graduated from the Art Students League of New York of the University of Boston, is a painter, drawer and needleworker, has a sister Leslie Slatkin and a maternal nephew William Slatkin.