Joe Velikovsky (born 11 November 1975) is an Australian Film Writer-Director-Producer, and also Game, Film and TV Writer, Game Designer, and Producer. He is also a Musician, Songwriter, Cartoonist, and Illustrator. He wrote & designed the videogame LOONEY TUNES: ACME ARSENAL, which sold over 1 million copies. His first feature film as a writer, 'CAUGHT INSIDE', has won several awards, including the Audience Award at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival,...
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Joe Velikovsky (born 11 November 1975) is an Australian Film Writer-Director-Producer, and also Game, Film and TV Writer, Game Designer, and Producer. He is also a Musician, Songwriter, Cartoonist, and Illustrator. He wrote & designed the videogame LOONEY TUNES: ACME ARSENAL, which sold over 1 million copies. His first feature film as a writer, 'CAUGHT INSIDE', has won several awards, including the Audience Award at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival, and was released in cinemas in 2011.
Velikovsky was born to a librarian mother and grazier father in Mudgee (a place-name which means "Nest in the Hills") and was raised on a wheat, sheep and cattle farm in Cassilis (which means nothing). His parents divorced when Velikovsky was 6, his mother married a poet, and the family moved to Murrurundi - which means "Nestled in the Valley" - and later Wang Wauk (which means "Fruit Bat").
Velikovsky’s first published work, at age 13, was the illustrations in the children’s book, "Metamorphic". After...
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