Philippe Mora (born 1949) is a French-born Australian film director.
Mora is a member of one of Australia’s best known artistic families. His parents, Georges Mora and Mirka Mora, migrated to Australia from France in 1951 and settled in Melbourne, where they quickly became key figures on the Melbourne cultural scene. Georges, a wartime resistance fighter, became an influential art dealer, and in 1967 he founded one of the first commercial art gal...
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Philippe Mora (born 1949) is a French-born Australian film director.
Mora is a member of one of Australia’s best known artistic families. His parents, Georges Mora and Mirka Mora, migrated to Australia from France in 1951 and settled in Melbourne, where they quickly became key figures on the Melbourne cultural scene. Georges, a wartime resistance fighter, became an influential art dealer, and in 1967 he founded one of the first commercial art galleries in Melbourne, Tolarno Galleries. The Mora family home and restaurants were focal points of Melbourne's bohemian subculture. As a result of this, Philippe and his brothers had what he has described as a "culturally privileged childhood."
Philippe began making films while he was still a child. His first home movie (now preserved by The National Film and Sound Archive) was Back Alley, made in 1964 when he was 15. A parody of West Side Story, it was filmed in Flinder's Lane, just behind his mother’s studio at 9 Collins Street, and it...
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