Tony Ayres
| Tony Ayres | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 July 1961 Portuguese Macau |
| Years active | 1992 - present |
| Awards |
AACTA Award for Best Children's Television Series' 2013 Nowhere Boys Inside Film Award for Best Director 2007 The Home Song Stories Berlinale "Teddy" for Best Feature Film 2002 Walking on Water |
Tony Ayres (born 16 July 1961) is a Portuguese Macau-born Australian showrunner, screenwriter, director in television and feature film. He is most notable for his films Walking on Water and The Home Song Stories, as well his work in television, including working as the showrunner on The Slap and teen adventure series Nowhere Boys.
On 16 July 1961, Ayres was born in Portuguese Macau (now in China). In 1964, Ayres mother married an Australian sailor and migrated her family to Perth, Western Australia.
In 1972, when Ayres was 11 years old, his mother committed suicide. She was a nightclub singer.
Ayres' stepfather died of a heart attack three years after the death of his wife, and two days before he was due to remarry. Ayres and his older sister briefly lived with their stepfather's former fiancee, before being placed in the care of Ayres' history teacher. They then moved to Canberra, ACT with their guardian, whom Ayres' sister later married. Ayres' 2007 film The Home Song Stories is loosely based on this early period of his life.
Ayres studied photography and printmaking at the Australian National University in Canberra, before working as an exhibition curator. He later completed postgraduate studies in film and video at the Swinburne Film and Television School (now the University of Melbourne Faculty of VCA and MCM School of Film and Television) in Melbourne, Victoria.
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