Kennedy Miller Productions
| Founded | 1978 |
|---|---|
| Founder |
Byron Kennedy George Miller |
| Headquarters | Australia |
| Products | Motion pictures, television, video games |
| Services | Film production, television production, video game production |
Kennedy Miller Mitchell (before 2009 known as Kennedy Miller) is an Australian film, television and video game production house in Potts Point, Sydney, that has been producing television and film since 1978. It is responsible for some of Australia's most well known and successful films, including the four Mad Max films, the two Babe films, and the two Happy Feet films.
Kennedy Miller Mitchell is one of Australia's oldest existing film production companies, and the internationally most successful.
Many of the films are directed by the co-founder, George Miller, though he sometimes takes an organisational role and prefers to use someone else to direct, as with Babe, which was directed by Chris Noonan.
The company's most recent project was the fourth Mad Max film, titled Mad Max: Fury Road. After being "in development hell for 25 years", the film was released to critical acclaim on May 15, 2015.
Byron Kennedy, who was a film school lecturer at the time, and George Miller, first met at a summer film school in Australia in 1971. They began making short features and experimental work, including "Violence In The Cinema, Part 1", which Byron produced, photographed and edited, which won two Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards.
In 1978, Kennedy and Miller formed the production company Kennedy Miller Productions, which produced their first feature film, Mad Max. The success of the film allowed them to establish Hollywood contacts, and work in the US in addition to Australia.
In July 1983, Byron Kennedy was killed when the helicopter he was piloting crashed. Miller's first reaction was to back away from film making without Byron's input, but he decided to continue, and created a sizeable body of TV productions during the 1980s and 1990s, among them the six-part series The Dismissal (1983), the seven-part series Bodyline (1984), the six-part series The Cowra Breakout (1984), the ten-part series Vietnam (1987) with Nicole Kidman, the three-part series Bangkok Hilton (1989), and the five-part series The Dirtwater Dynasty (1989).
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