Timothy Spanos

Timothy Spanos (born 12 June 1978 in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria) is an Australian film director and screen writer, who has made four feature films that have become cult movie hits in the USA and Europe. His first film, Prisoner Queen:Mindless Music & Mirror Balls, set in 1997, was about an ageing actress who is diagnosed with leukemia and her son who copes by stalking the streets at night as a security officer. It starred Jude Kuring, Tim Burns, Matt Thomas, Polly Stanton, Michael Burkett, and Margo McLennan.
Spanos' next film, Nancy Nancy, a homage to B-Grade trash cinema is a black musical comedy about Stockholm syndrome, and was released in the USA in 2006, winning Best Comedy Feature there. The film was shot in Coronet Bay and starred Tim Burns as Nancy Nancy.
Spanos followed that up with Moonlight & Magic, about two punk bandits who commence a crime spree in rural Victoria . It starred Tim Burns, Maxine Klibingaitis and Elspeth Ballantyne.
His fourth film Boronia Boys, about two trash and treasure salesmen from the suburbs was released in Australia in 2011 through the Metro Cinemas and within two weeks became the highest grossing Australian independent film to screen there. Boronia Boys was listed in the Top 5 films screening in Melbourne for two weeks and Spanos was proclaimed by the age newspaper as "the unsung hero of Australian Independent cinema".
The second Boronia Boys film, Boronia Backpackers, was completed in 2011 and won Best Guerrilla Film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Boronia Backpackers is due for release in 2012.
Nancy Nancy, Prisoner Queen and Boronia Boys have all been released on DVD in Australia through major distribution.
Spanos works with an ensemble of Australian actors, including Tim Burns, Maxine Klibingaitis, Michael Burkett, Matt Thomas(lead singer of The Mavis's), Polly Stanton, Tania Wert, Alessandra Prisco, Elspeth Ballantyne, Cameron Nugent, Reylene Pearce, Jude Kuring and Desiree Smith.
Filmography
* The House Cleaner (In Production)
* Boronia Backpackers (2011)
* Boronia Boys (2010)
* Moonlight & Magic (2007)
* Miss Mouskouri (2007) - short film
* Nancy Nancy (2006)
* Prisoner Queen (2004)

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