Hailing from Ōtautahi Christchurch, Jonathan Ogilvie lives and works in Poihakena Sydney. His immersion in NZ’s independent music scene led to an early career making music videos for seminal Australasian bands. While living in London in the 1980s, he worked on several feature films including Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket.

Following back-to-back official competition selections of his films at Cannes, Ogilvie had success with The Tender Hook (nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award – AWGIE) and Lone Wolf (2019) which premiered at the IFFR and MIFF. Head South is his second AWGIE nomination for Best Feature Screenplay.

Jonathan Ogilvie will be introducing Head South in Christchurch and doing Q+As and introductions in Auckland and Wellington.