Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Moorhouse at the premiere of The Dressmaker at TIFF, September 2015
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4 September 1960 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Spouse(s) | P.J. Hogan |
Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse (born 4 September 1960) is an Australian writer and film director. She has directed films such as Proof,How to Make an American Quilt and A Thousand Acres.
Moorhouse has produced some of her husband, film director P. J. Hogan's films: Muriel's Wedding and 2012's Mental.
In 2012, Moorhouse directed her first play Sex with Strangers for the Sydney Theatre Company. In October 2014, she started filming The Dressmaker, with Kate Winslet and Judy Davis.
Moorhouse was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Moorhouse did her HSC year in 1978 at Vermont High School where her mother taught art, which is the same high school that Gillian Armstrong attended a few years earlier. She then enrolled in the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS).
It was while studying at Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) that Moorhouse completed her first short film entitled Pavane in 1983. Moorhouse then graduated from AFTRS in 1984 and started work as television script editor. She created a twelve-part series called c/o The Bartons for the ABC in 1988—the series was based on one of her short films at AFTRS called The Siege of the Bartons' Bathroom. Some of the other television shows she worked on included The Flying Doctors, Out of the Blue, A Place to Call Home, and The Humpty Dumpty Man. Moorhouse made her feature film debut in 1991 with Proof. The idea for the film came from Moorhouse’s interest in blindness and photography. She initially intended on this being a short film but since she wasn’t able to secure the funding for a short she decided to make it into a feature film instead. It took Proof five years to go into production, but when it did it had a budget of 1.1 million dollars. The film ended up taking six weeks to shoot in Melbourne during the winter of 1990.
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