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Jill Bilcock
Jill Elizabeth Bilcock AC (born 1948 as Jill Stevenson), is an Australian film editor. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (2002), and Elizabeth (1998). In 2007 she won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking.
Jill Elizabeth Stevenson, later Bilcock, was born in 1948 in Horsham, Victoria, Australia. Her family, which included Jill and two brothers, moved to Melbourne when she was three, and her father left the family when she was four. Her mother worked full-time as a teacher at a technical school, and went to the University of Melbourne at night to complete a degree in commerce. Artists, poets, and authors visited their home regularly. She later said that she "didn't have a lot of parenting".
She is a graduate of the Swinburne Film and Television School (1968), entering its first film course at the age of 17, after leaving school and enrolling at Swinburne Technical College at the age of 15, encouraged by her mother. She went on a student trip to China, which at the time was in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, and generally closed to foreigners; she became an honorary Red Guard there. When Brian Robinson started the first film course at Swinburne, she jumped at it. There she met Fred Schepisi, who was one of the examiners.
Bilcock began her career doing commercials (there being no Australian film industry then), after being invited by Fred Schepisi to work at his company, The Film House. Schepisi "let [them] run wild", and allowed the students to experiment with all aspects of filmmaking. She started specialising in editing, assisted by Richard Lowenstein, who had also graduated from Swinburne.
In the mid-1970s, she was invited to a job in London, but, travelling via India, ended up staying in that country for a year, living a hippie-style existence in Goa and taking bit parts in local films.
Her first feature film was Richard Lowenstein's Strikebound (1984). During the 1980s and 1990s, she started working with filmmakers on well-known films such as Dogs in Space (directed by Lowenstein, 1987), Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, 1992), Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, 1994), and Head On (Ana Kokkinos, 1998).
Bilcock later edited films such as Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Sam Mendes' 2002 crime drama Road to Perdition.
Her editing style has been described as "boldly inventive", and her editing of the Luhrmann films known for their "strikingly fast cutting, whirl of noise and colour and unconventional jumps". She has said: "I want wild, I want innovative, unusual and visually extraordinary". However, she changed pace on films such as Road to Perdition and The Dish.
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Jill Bilcock
Jill Elizabeth Bilcock AC (born 1948 as Jill Stevenson), is an Australian film editor. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards for Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (2002), and Elizabeth (1998). In 2007 she won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking.
Jill Elizabeth Stevenson, later Bilcock, was born in 1948 in Horsham, Victoria, Australia. Her family, which included Jill and two brothers, moved to Melbourne when she was three, and her father left the family when she was four. Her mother worked full-time as a teacher at a technical school, and went to the University of Melbourne at night to complete a degree in commerce. Artists, poets, and authors visited their home regularly. She later said that she "didn't have a lot of parenting".
She is a graduate of the Swinburne Film and Television School (1968), entering its first film course at the age of 17, after leaving school and enrolling at Swinburne Technical College at the age of 15, encouraged by her mother. She went on a student trip to China, which at the time was in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, and generally closed to foreigners; she became an honorary Red Guard there. When Brian Robinson started the first film course at Swinburne, she jumped at it. There she met Fred Schepisi, who was one of the examiners.
Bilcock began her career doing commercials (there being no Australian film industry then), after being invited by Fred Schepisi to work at his company, The Film House. Schepisi "let [them] run wild", and allowed the students to experiment with all aspects of filmmaking. She started specialising in editing, assisted by Richard Lowenstein, who had also graduated from Swinburne.
In the mid-1970s, she was invited to a job in London, but, travelling via India, ended up staying in that country for a year, living a hippie-style existence in Goa and taking bit parts in local films.
Her first feature film was Richard Lowenstein's Strikebound (1984). During the 1980s and 1990s, she started working with filmmakers on well-known films such as Dogs in Space (directed by Lowenstein, 1987), Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, 1992), Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, 1994), and Head On (Ana Kokkinos, 1998).
Bilcock later edited films such as Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Sam Mendes' 2002 crime drama Road to Perdition.
Her editing style has been described as "boldly inventive", and her editing of the Luhrmann films known for their "strikingly fast cutting, whirl of noise and colour and unconventional jumps". She has said: "I want wild, I want innovative, unusual and visually extraordinary". However, she changed pace on films such as Road to Perdition and The Dish.