- Birth nameNathan John Hill
- Nickname
- Nate
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Nathan Hill is an actor, writer, producer and director. Having gained success with his film The Strange Game of Hyde and Seek (2004), Fox Force (2009) and Model Behaviour (2013), his film opened the Australian Film Festival. He is a Shriekfest Finalist and California Film Award Winner. Revenge of the Gweilo (2020), in which he acted & directed, won the Indie Gathering International Film Festival, along with a host of others. He has acted in all mediums of the entertainment world, with his debut to the stage playing Peter Pan and his screen debut as a vampire in Queen of the Damned (2002).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Nathan Hill is an Australian actor, writer, producer and director who specializes in making multi-genre pictures for a global audience. His debut to the stage was playing Peter Pan as a youngster. Nathan pioneered the 4-year Advanced Diploma of the Screen at Footscray Film Dept., Victoria, Australia. During film school he landed a lead role in the feature film Radio Samurai (2002) and also played a vampire in Queen of the Damned (2002). His graduation piece The Strange Game of Hyde and Seek (2004), a 30 minute film that screened at Shriekfest in Los Angeles, was a finalist the following year for the full-length version of the movie for the Shriekfest screenplay competition. Returning home he shot his first feature Fox Force (2009) and further acted in the mockumentary How to Be a SexStar (2010) that opened the Australian Film Festival in year one. Gloom with a View (2008) in which he played the lead, won Best Pilot at Comedy Gold Channel 2009. Model Behaviour (2013), in which he acted, produced & directed won the California Film Awards in 2013, the DV Awards and was a finalist at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Nathan has continued to act in all mediums of the entertainment world. He has won awards for his filmmaking across the globe. His interest lies mainly in directing horror and thriller style genre movies.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Quite often writes leading characters as anti-heroes.
- His films most always have a staircase leading downwards.
- Often uses slow zooms on the lead character.
- Always casts very attractive women and sometimes models in his films.
- Likes to discover new talent and often uses unknown actors.
- Was set to direct Corey Haim in the feature film Black Mass until Haim's passing in 2010.
- Is known for reciting lines from Predator (1987) to his friends.
- Was approached to play Warwick Capper in a bio pic but insisted the script was too long.
- Known as Melbourne's very own jade hunter.
- [on filmmaking]: Filmmakers make films, they don't sit in cafés drinking coffee all day. They're out there shooting films. I go and sip my latte when I feel like I've done enough work. And right now I'm working my butt off and I still don't feel like I've done enough?!
- To be a likable actor you have to be a likable person.
- I love it when people criticize my films, it makes me try harder and keep going!
- In my spare time during film school I spent three years adapting the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde novella into a screenplay of my own. What I noticed straight away was that the protagonist was the lawyer character, not the monster, and I was surprised that all previous versions I had seen were made that way. Then I realized this was because of marketing and box office value. I decided to be true to the literature and follow the story of Utterson, the best friend and lawyer to Dr Jekyll, in an attempt to be true to the work of R.L Stevenson. The result was that all the film festivals in America said it was best that I had created a 30 minute version of the movie considering the novel isn't even a full length one either.
- I remember the day I was accepted into Shriekfest for one of my films. I cried out loud. I must have applied to 100 film festivals before I got that one. My dream was to be accepted by an American audience and that was the beginning of it.
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