Felicity Abbott
Felicity Abbott | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Production designer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
Felicity Abbott is a professional production designer working within the film and television sectors.
Background
Originating from Wellington, New Zealand, Abbott is presently based in Sydney, Australia.
Education
In 1999, Abbott completed her MA (Film & Television) (Hons) in Production Design at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. That same year, she was honored with the Fox Studios Australia Award for Excellence in Design. Before pursuing this degree, she obtained a BFA in Sculpture from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Career
Abbott has contributed to a variety of critically acclaimed films. The film Restoration, directed by Cordelia Beresford, secured the best film accolade at the Dendy Awards during the Sydney Film Festival in 1999 and received the Jury Prize at the Long Beach International Film Festival in the USA in 2000.
Her partnership with Beresford on The Eye Inside earned best film awards at both the Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards and the St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne (2005), as well as a nomination for an Australian Film Institute Awards that same year.
In 2006, Abbott was involved in The Catalpa Rescue (known as Irish Escape in the US), directed by Lisa Harney for PBS (USA), ABC (Australia), and RTÉ (Ireland), alongside Playground, directed by Eve Spence. The following year, she designed the film opera The Eternity Man, produced by Goalpost Pictures/Channel 4, which portrays Australian figure Arthur Stace and was directed by Julien Temple. This production debuted at the Sydney Opera House during the Sydney Film Festival in 2008.
More recent works include The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, directed by Michael James Rowland and produced by Nial Fulton for Essential Media & Entertainment, filmed on location in Tasmania, as well as the feature film Bran Nue Dae, directed by Rachel Perkins.
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