Andrew Pike OAM
Andrew Pike is a film distributor, historian and documentary filmmaker. His company, Ronin Films, began theatrical distribution in 1974, focusing on films from Asia Pacific and Europe including many Chinese Fifth Generation films in the 1980s, and Japanese classics. The company’s Australian releases include Baz Luhrmann’s BAFTA-winning Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Scott Hicks’ Academy Award®-winning Shine (1996).
His directorial debut was Angels of War (1983), a documentary about Papua New Guinea’s involvement in WWII that won an Australian Film Institute Award. In 2007, Andrew Pike received an Order of Australia Medal and an honorary doctorate from the University of Canberra. For ten years until 2012, he served on various iterations of the Board of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and since 2017 he has been Director of the Canberra International Film Festival.
Roles
- 2023 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Jury
- 2022 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Jury
- 2021 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Jury
- 2020 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2018 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2017 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2016 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2015 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2014 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2013 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2012 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2011 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2010 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
- 2009 International Jury
- 2014 APSA Academy Children’s Film Fund Recipient
- 2019 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Panel
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