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Warwick Thornton is an Australian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. His debut feature film, Samson and Delilah won the Caméra d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Family
Thornton was born and raised in Alice Springs. His mother, Freda Glynn, co-founded and was the first Director of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), and was the Director of Imparja Television for its first ten years. For a time she was the only female chair of a television network in the world. In 1993 she, together with Philip Batty, won the $50,000 international prize in communications, the McLuhan Teleglobe Canada Award.

At 13, Thornton was sent to school in Australia's only monastic town, New Norcia, Western Australia, although he later declared he became angry with Christianity and did not consider himself religious.

One of his sisters, Erica Glynn, is also a well-known film writer and director.

He has two brothers, Scott Thornton, an actor who played the role of Gonzo in Samson and Delilah (2009 film), and Rob Thornton who is an indigenous liaison officer in Cairns Base Hospital, Queensland.

Career
He graduated in cinematography from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Thornton began his career making short films and has achieved success with them at film festivals around the world, including Payback at the Telluride Film Festival and Green Bush and Nana at the Berlin International Film Festival. He describes his decision to become a filmmaker in an interview in 2007:

Where I grew up in Alice I was a DJ for a radio station (CAAMA). The station began a film unit and so I watched people pack cameras and equipment into cars and take off to make films. I was alone at the radio station and I thought that I really wanted to go with them. That’s how it started, I made a film called Green Bush which is basically about that time. Eventually I went to AFTRS in Sydney and got really involved as a Director of Photography. I’ve been in the business for 9 years now. wiki

Director (12 credits)
2017 Sweet Country (post-production)
2017 We Don't Need a Map (Documentary)
2014 Words with Gods (segment "True Gods")
2013 The Darkside
2013 The Turning (segment "Big World")
2011 Stranded (Short)
2010 Art+Soul (TV Series documentary)
2009 Samson and Delilah
2007 Nana (TV Short)
2005 Green Bush (Short)
2002 Mimi (Short)
1996 From Sand to Celluloid: Payback (Short)
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Enlaces completados:
OK Samson and Delilah (Warwick Thornton, 2009)