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Born: Established: 1960 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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1 form y separately published work icon Wakefield [Episode 1.8] Kristen Dunphy , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) Australia : BBC Studios Jungle Entertainment , 2021 23367168 2021 single work film/TV
1 4 form y separately published work icon Wakefield Kristen Dunphy , Sam Meikle , Joan Sauers , Cathy Strickland , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse et. al. )agent Australia : BBC Studios Jungle Entertainment , 2021 21478633 2021 series - publisher film/TV

'Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's getting worse.' (Production summary)

1 form y separately published work icon The Seventh Circle Elise McCredie , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) Australia : Matchbox Pictures Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2020 20826206 2020 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Panis Angelicus Belinda Chayko , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Matchbox Pictures , 2020 20269100 2020 single work film/TV
1 8 form y separately published work icon Stateless Elise McCredie , Belinda Chayko , ( dir. Emma Freeman et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Matchbox Pictures , 2020 16563781 2020 series - publisher film/TV

Inside Film describes the series as 'a six-part drama about four strangers in an immigration detention centre in the Australian desert'.

Source: https://www.if.com.au/cate-blanchett-co-creates-and-stars-in-refugee-drama-stateless (Sighted: 17/05/2019).

1 form y separately published work icon Les Norton Shanti Gudgeon , Malcolm Knox , Christopher Lee , Jessica Tuckwell , Samantha Winston , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse et. al. )agent 2019 Australia : Roadshow Rough Diamond , 2019 15930166 2019 series - publisher film/TV crime

'Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of Les Norton, a country bloke from outback Queensland. On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at a notorious illegal casino in Kings Cross. A classic fish out of water who’s desperate to get home, he soon finds himself seduced by the city’s illicit charms and dragged into a web of underground criminality.' (Production summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Unconditional Love : A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood Jocelyn Moorhouse , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2019 15403889 2019 single work autobiography

'Jocelyn Moorhouse has a successful career as a gifted scriptwriter and film director, as well as a maintaining a marriage and a family of four children. How did she do it? Her memoir is a moving story of growing up with adoring parents and siblings. She knew early on that she wanted to be a filmmaker, and her dreams were encouraged by her family and by her teachers. Meeting P.J. Hogan, becoming parents and filmmakers together was a turning point. But when they discovered that two of their children were autistic, Jocelyn’s life turned upside down. In Unconditional Love, she talks from the heart, with humour and intelligence, about her fears for her children, the highs and lows in her international career, about Hollywood and home, and about her love for what she does best—filmmaking and motherhood.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 form y separately published work icon Agaat Jocelyn Moorhouse , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) Australia : Bronte Pictures , 2019 14259550 2019 single work film/TV

'Adopted into a white apartheid era family in South Africa, and then cast aside into the servant's quarters by the woman she considered her mother, Agaat fights to forge an identity not defined by her skin color.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon The Variations Jocelyn Moorhouse , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) Australia : Film Art Media , 2018 10722605 2018 single work film/TV

Explores the love triangle of German musicians Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.

1 form y separately published work icon The Wedding Officer Andrew Knight , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) Australia : 2017 10434245 2017 single work film/TV
1 Not On the Script Jocelyn Moorhouse , 2015 single work column non-fiction
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 25 October 2015; (p. 72)
1 57 form y separately published work icon The Dressmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) Australia : Film Art Media , 2015 6320906 2015 single work film/TV

“You can’t keep anything secret here,” said the old woman. “Everybody knows everything about everyone but no one ever tittle tattles because then someone else’ll tell on them. But you don’t matter – it’s open slather on outcasts.”

'The Dressmaker is a bittersweet tragi-comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the past. When Tilly comes home, she not only heals her ailing mother, but with her sewing machine, and haute couture style, transforms the women of the town in such a way that she gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. She also falls unexpectedly in love, which leads to her greatest loss, and her most destructive deed.' (Producer's abstract)

1 6 form Eucalyptus Michelle Joyner , Jocelyn Moorhouse , 2004 single work film/TV
1 1 form y separately published work icon A Thousand Acres Laura Jones , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) United States of America (USA) : Propaganda Films Touchstone Pictures Prairie Films , 1997 6025623 1997 single work film/TV

Adaptation of American novelist Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, which tranposes the basic structure of King Lear to an American farming family.

1 form y separately published work icon Lift Off Chris Anastassiades , Josephine Barcelon , Garth Boomer , Ray Boseley , Shane Brennan , Anne Brooksbank , Tony Cavanaugh , Cameron Clarke , Elizabeth Coleman , Bruce Currie , Terry Denton , Roger Dunn , Bob Ellis , Sue Giles , Barbara Gliddon , Jutta Goetze , Robert Greenberg , Mac Gudgeon , Glenda Hambly , Mandy Hampson , Jennifer Hill , Sue Hore , Graham Hartley , John Hepworth , P. J. Hogan , Sally Irwin , Paul Jennings , Anthony Lucas , Neil Luxmoore , Christine Madafferi , Rick Maier , Maureen McCarthy , Narelle McRobbie , Stephen Measday , John Misto , Jocelyn Moorhouse , Paul Nichola , Jeff Peck , Rod Quantock , Ian Pidd , Penny Robenstone Harris , Pamela Rushby , Jan Sardi , Leon Saunders , Moya Sayer-Jones , Steve J. Spears , Peter Viska , Judy Zavos , Jo Wilkie , Julian Wigley , Tony Watts , Mark Trounce , Jeremy Parker , Ross Noble , Anne Joliffe , John Harding , Maurice Giacomini , Sue Edgar , Mark A. Eady , Nancy Black , ( dir. Mario Andreacchio et. al. )agent Melbourne : Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1992-1996 Z1855640 1992-1996 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy science fiction

A mixture of live-action, puppetry, animation, and documentary, Lift Off centred on a group of children who lived in the same neighbourhood and whose imaginations made their environment a world of fun and excitement. However, the program also explored issues such as pain, loneliness, jealousy, and anger. The program was aimed at three-year-old to eight-year-old viewers (as defined by Harvard University developmental psychologist Howard Gardner), and was linked to school curricula through the Curriculum Corporation of Australia.

2 18 form y separately published work icon Proof Jocelyn Moorhouse , ( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse ) Melbourne : House and Moorhouse Films , 1991 Z183986 1991 single work film/TV

Blind since birth, Martin has never trusted anyone. He takes photographs as proof that the world he imagines is the same as that seen by sighted people. He relies on his young housekeeper, who is in love with him. But when he makes a new friend, the housekeeper's jealousy turns to vindictive rage.

1 form y separately published work icon House Rules Shane Brennan , Vincent Gil , John Reeves , Denise Morgan , Jocelyn Moorhouse , Peter Herbert , John Hepworth , Peter Hepworth , Rick Held , Galia Hardy , Bill Garner , Graeme Farmer , Patrick Edgeworth , Barbara Bishop , ( dir. Gary Conway et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1988 Z1889019 1988 series - publisher film/TV

'The story of a Melbourne house-wife who becomes a member of parliament.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon c/o The Bartons Jocelyn Moorhouse , P. J. Hogan , Greg Millin , Noel Robinson , ( dir. Peter Dodds et. al. )agent Sydney Paris : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Revcom Television , 1988 Z1827731 1988 series - publisher film/TV children's

According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, c/o The Bartons was based on a sixteen-minute student film written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse while she was studying at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

Says Moran, 'Entitled The Siege of the Bartons' Bathroom, the film was in effect a kind of pilot for the series and became the basis of the first episode'. Moorhouse also contributed nearly half the scripts for the series. To quote Moran, 'The various episodes both comic and serious dealt with their family life and that of their community'.

3 1 y separately published work icon C/o the Bartons Jocelyn Moorhouse , Ringwood : Puffin , 1988 Z991756 1988 single work children's fiction children's
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