ADRIAN CARR
Director/Editor/Photographer
BIOGRAPHY
Australian native, Adrian Carr, is a director and multi award-winning film editor best known for The Man from Snowy River starring Kirk Douglas, Tom Selleck's western, Quigley Down Under, and D.A.R.Y.L. a popular sci-fi adventure movie.
Adrian directed the features Now and Forever, starring Cheryl Ladd, The Sword of Bushido, a martial arts drama set in Thailand and the pilot and early episodes of the iconic Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, followed by Warner Bros TV series The New Adventures of Robin Hood.
Then came a foray into directing the live action for a series of ground-breaking Tex Murphy computer games The Pandora Directive starring Barry Corbin/Tanya Roberts and Overseer with Michael York and Tesla Effect starring Steve Valentine and June Lockhart. The Pandora Directive still ranks #9 in AdventureGamers Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games.
Followed by a hustle-style comedy Mind Games for a first time writer/producer.
Two of Adrian’s unsettling dramatic shorts both won awards; Permanent Stays was awarded an ACS Gold Award for Best Drama in Australia and Blood Makes Noise picked up Best Suspense Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Not only is Adrian an accomplished director and editor, he is also a talented stills photographer with many years as the official photographer for the British Academy of Film And Television Arts/Los Angeles.
He won a Bronze Award for the Most Original Calendar for his Naked Cigar Calendar in the National Calendar Awards and is now creating a coffee table book The Naked Cigar with 100 new photographs in the same vein and recently completed a 100 page coffee table book A Ten-Year Retrospective of BAFTA Los Angeles Q&As and Events.
The highly praised interactive-movie full motion video game Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure is currently in release on Steam and GOG. Adventure Gamers gave Tesla Effect an Aggie Award for Best Adventure Game Character of 2014 with 10 Reader's Choice awards including for Adventure Game of the Year and Best Traditional Adventure.
Adrian has also directed John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Christian Slater, Anne Archer and Sarah Michelle Gellar, for their roles in a 3-D Imax animation project entitled Quantum Quest.
He is currently in development on the feature film A Dolphin in our Lake starring Noah Wyle, set to lens in September 2020, and Without a Hitch, a Hitchcockian adventure/romance in the South of France and Los Angeles written by Steven E. deSouza [Die Hard], “A Belly Full”, a female-driven comedy set in the world of belly dancing and “PeeksKill”, a Twilight Zone styled supernatural horror. He recently directed & edited, SOLUS, a 45 minute sci-fi Pilot currently in Post Production.
When The Chips Are Down
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Film (short)
by Tall Orders Productions
Director/Writer/Editor Two unlikely detectives are thrown together to solve a multiple murder case and bring a ring of child pornographers to justice.
Solus
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Director/Editor
Do I Have Your Attention
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Video
by Tall Orders Productions
Director/Editor
Bonds of Brotherhood
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Film
Director/Editor
Ovation
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Film
Actor
Tesla Effect
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Video Game
by Big Finish Games
Director/Editor/"Dalton Fiske"
Millie and Jerry
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Film
Still Photographer - Singer poster
Servitude
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TV Series
Director/Editor
Rock & Romance
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Film
Director/Editor
Keepers of the Light
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Film
Director/Editor - dramatized scenes
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
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Film
Voice Director
The Blonde, the Bully, the Munchkin & the Movie
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Film
Director/Editor
Queen of the Lot
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Film
Actor "Paparazzi"
In a Pickle
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Film
Director
Blood Makes Noise
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Film
by Tall Orders Productions
Director/Producer/Editor/Co-Writer
Guarding Eddy
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Film
Editor
Mind Games
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Film
Director/Supervising Editor
Tex Murphy Radio Theater
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TV Mini
Actor "Dalton Fiske"
Tex Murphy: Overseer
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Video Game
by Access Software
Director/Editor/Actor "Dalton Fiske" "Sniper"
The New Adventures of Robin Hood
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TV Series
Director x 5 episodes
The Pandora Directive
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Video Game
by Access Software
Director/Editor
The Dangerous
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Film
Supervising Editor
Under the Gun
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Film
Visual Consultant
Unveiled
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Film
Editor
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
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TV Series
Director - Pilot + 3 eps
Over the Hill
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Film
Second Unit Director
Permanent Stays
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Video
Director/Editor
The Sword of Bushido
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Film
Director
Quigley Down Under
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Film
Second Unit Director/Editor
The 13th Floor
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Film
Second Unit Director/Editing consultant
The Lighthorsemen
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Film
Editor
Dark Age
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Film
Editor/2nd Unit Director
The Far Country
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TV Movie
Editor
Crocodile Dundee
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Film
ADR editor
Sky Pirates
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Film
Sound Editor
D.A.R.Y.L.
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Film
Editor
The Aviator
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Film
Visual Consultant
Prisoners
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Film
Editor/2nd Unit Director
Now and Forever
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Film
Director/Editor
The Man from Snowy River
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Film
Editor
Harlequin
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Film
Editor
Bluey
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TV Series
Editor
Matlock Police
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TV Series
Editor
For Rent
Director
A Dolphin in Our Lake
Director
Homicide
TV Series
Editor
Do It Scared
Director
Independent Short Awards June 2021 June Award Best Director Adrian Carr
(2021)
Urban Action Showcase And Expo Won, Urban Action Showcase Short Film Award 2 Min Warning Contest
(2017)
THE NAKED CIGAR CALENDAR Photographer and creator www.nakedcigarcalendar.com
BLOOD MAKES NOISE NYIIFVF/LA Short Film Genre Award - Best Suspense
NOW AND FOREVER - AFI nomination Best Screenplay adapted
THE SWORD OF BUSHIDO - Pater Award - Best Music
PERMANENT STAYS - ACS Gold Award for Best Short Drama
QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER - Golden Reel (U.S.) - Best Sound
THE PANDORA DIRECTIVE - Winner PC Games Award 1996 Best Use of Live-action
MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER I - AFI Best Music/Golden Reel - Best Sound
THE LIGHTHORSEMEN - AFI - Best Music & Best Sound
HARLEQUIN - Sammy Award - best sound
THE FAR COUNTRY - Television Society Australia - Best Editing – Drama
HBA commercial: ALCOHOL - FACTS GOLD & Clio GOLD International Commercial of the year