Pip Karmel
| Pip Karmel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Philippa Karmel 27 March 1963 Adelaide, Australia |
| Occupation | Film editor Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1984-present |
Philippa ("Pip") Karmel (born 1963) is an Australian filmmaker. As a film editor, she has worked exclusively with director Scott Hicks in a notable collaboration from 1988 through 2007; their work together includes the widely recognized film Shine (1996). She has directed and written several films, including Me Myself I (2000), which was released internationally.
Karmel is the daughter of Peter Karmel, who was an Australian economist, professor, and university administrator. She studied visual arts in Adelaide. She was an assistant editor in the mid-1980s. She worked for editor Andrew Prowse on several films including Call Me Mr. Brown (1985), which was Scott Hicks' first feature film. She subsequently studied film directing and editing at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. She interrupted her studies to edit Hicks' feature, Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988), which was her first feature credit as an editor. Her graduate film was Sex Rules (1989), a short film.
In the early 1990s Karmel worked primarily as a director and writer. She directed an episode, The Long Ride, for the Australian television program Under the Skin; the episode won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Tele-feature. Hicks persuaded Karmel to return to editing for the film, Shine, which Hicks was directing and had co-written.Shine (1996) has become Hicks' most recognized film; it is based on the early life of David Helfgott, who became a concert pianist following several years of institutionalization for mental illness. In his Variety review, David Stratton wrote, "Securing the musician's cooperation was obviously crucial to Jane Scott's accomplished production, which is also distinguished by Geoffrey Simpson's fine camerawork and Pip Karmel's editing, the latter skillfully shaping a wealth of material into a fast-paced, compelling narrative." Karmel has now edited several additional films with Hicks.
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