Patrick N. Hine

Film Biography - Patrick N. Hine (writer/director/producer) Patrick Hine was born in Toowoomba, Australia in 1968. After completing a Bachelor of Arts (majors: Ancient History and Drama) (1986 - 1988) at the University of Queensland, he became a member of Brisbane Independent Filmmakers and the Australian Film Institute. He also completed a Graduate Diploma in Arts (Writing, Editing and Publishing) at the University of Queensland in 2003. He is the creative force behind one feature film (Brizbin Boy Canberra Girl, 1999, 78 mins,digital video - writer (for the screen, adapted from G. P. Shera's short stories), director, producer); one television pilot ("Leaving Home" for the series Dead Eyes Open, 2003, 40 minutes, digital video - series creator, writer, director and co-producer); and four short films (Father's Day, 1997, 22 minutes, Super-16mm film format - writer, director, producer; A Person of Accomplishment, 1991, 24 minutes S-VHS - writer (adapted screenplay), director, producer; The Man of Slow Feeling (15 minutes, S-VHS - writer (adapted screenplay), director, producer; In Ferno (18 minutes, VHS - writer, director, producer). Mr Hine has also written several unproduced screenplays including: to find you (a romantic drama set in Prague, the Czech Republic); Finch St. (psychological thriller, feature); Geppetto's Son (family drama, feature); Cripple King (family tragedy, feature); Souvenirs (family drama, feature); Spear Carrier (coming-of-age drama, feature) and The Fisherman and His Soul (short screenplay, adapted from Oscar Wilde's short story). He was the director of L'Importance D'Etre Constant (a French language adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest") for the Melbourne French Theatre Company in 1996. Mr Hine lived in Prague for three years over the years 2006 - 2010 and developed a romantic drama - to find you - during his most recent time living in the Czech capital. In 2011, Father's Day was screened to great audience response at the Moscow film society, kinosreda, in Russia.