Filmmakers’ Profile – Lemur Films

Mongrel's Ghost
Mongrel's Ghost

Speed City
Speed City

Jammin
Jammin' in the Middle E

Bomb Harvest was produced by Lemur Films, the company established by director/writer Kim Mordaunt and producer/writer Sylvia Wilczynski.   Their focus is making films which entice and transport an audience into important and exciting stories.  They are dynamically filmed using lyricism, wit and humour to make them entertaining and accessible to a wide international audience.

They have made award-winning dramas and documentaries for ABC TV, SBS TV and Discovery, funded by the Australian Film Commission (AFC), NSW Film & TV Office (NSWFTO), Film Finance Corporation and the Soros Foundation (now the Sundance Fund).  They began their careers on documentaries and dramas for BBC and Channel 4 in the UK.

Kim is currently developing the drama features Hitting the Bricks, as director, in association with the AFC, and Mount Warning, as writer/director, to be produced by Sylvia, with funding from the NSWFTO.

Kim and Sylvia are also developing the documentary Mini Moguls, about the child wheeler-dealers of the Third World, and the feature drama Precious Metal, a romantic thriller set in the extraordinary world they encountered in Laos whilst making Bomb Harvest.

Previous films

The 50-minute comedy drama which Kim directed for SBS, Jammin’ in the Middle E, received rave reviews:

“Priceless, both in its humour and its capacity to open a window into the thinking of Muslims in Sydney's maligned south-west”
Sydney Morning Herald

“Revealing and delightful...beguiling...this brilliant little film radiates with catharsis…. Mordaunt directs with a kind of cinema verite intimacy and an aesthetic power that matches the social impact of this project"
The Australian

Jammin’ in the Middle E was invited to the Mumbai and St Kilda Film Festivals and screened nationally in cinemas throughout Australia in the “Fresh” travelling film festival.

Kim and Sylvia’s half-hour documentary Speed City – a raw picture of Sydney through the eyes of bicycle couriers – won Best Short Documentary at the US Phoenix Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Byron Bay Film Festival, and screened at many other international film festivals including Rome.

Their short drama Mongrel’s Ghost – a love story set in a psychiatric hospital - won the ACS Award for: Best Cinematography in a Short Drama, and Best Drama at the Byron Bay Film Festival.  It was invited to numerous international film festivals including Los Angeles, Telluride Indiefest, Sao Paulo and Bilbao.

Kim’s other films include the one-hour documentaries Copy Rites and Survival, both for SBS TV.

All of Kim’s films have received “Pick of the Day” or “Pick of the Week” from the national newspapers (The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian etc) when screened on Australian TV.

Kim is represented by RGM, widely regarded as Australia’s top director agent.

Highly Acclaimed

  • Standing Ovation
    Sydney Film Festival
  • Best Documentary nomination
    IF Awards
  • Best Director nomination
    Australian Directors Guild Awards
  • Best Documentary nomination
    ATOM Awards
  • Winner, Best Music in a documentary
    Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards

International film festival premiere to be announced soon

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