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ROD HARDY is a widely accomplished and talented director who has forged his keen instincts and his trademark visual sense of story through extensive experience. His collaborative efforts are but a gleaning of his problem-solving techniques. A true “actors’ director” Hardy is respected for his unique ability to coax the very best performances from his actors.

Having honed his directing and producing skills in Australia, Hardy moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to launch his American career. His first assignment was to direct “Lies and Lullabies”, the traumatic life story of pregnant cocaine addicts, starring Susan Dey and Piper Laurie. The movie was awarded the Scott Newman Award (founded by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, in memory of their son). The prestigious award is presented annually to the production that best illustrates the degradation of and triumph over drug addiction.

Since his award-winning U.S. directorial debut, Hardy has garnered both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for movies of the week and mini-series. M.O.W.’s range from “Grounds for Murder” for CBS, starring John Ritter and Henry Winkler in memorable dramatic roles, to the re-creation of the classic Marjorie Rawlins’ novel, “The Yearling”, for CBS, that featured notable performances by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Strauss and Jean Smart.

Hardy’s directorial range runs the gamut of contemporary drama and science fiction to portraits of important historic moments, to the re-telling of such adventure classics as “Robinson Crusoe” with Pierce Brosnan, and Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” with Michael Caine and Patrick Dempsey.

Hardy also directed the successful Turner Network Television (TNT) adventure-drama, “Two For Texas”, starring Kris Kristofferson, Tom Skerritt, and Scott Bairstow, garnering the prestigious Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award. He teamed up for a second time with Tom Skerritt , this time on the critically-acclaimed cable movie remake of “High Noon” for the Superstation TBS.

After completing “X-Files, Series 8”, and directing “JAG, Series 7” for Belisarius Productions/CBS, Hardy went on to direct episodes of “Robbery, Homicide Division” for Producer Michael Mann, “The Practice” for David E. Kelley Productions, “Touching Evil” for producers Bruce Willis/Arnold Rifkin, starring Jeffrey Donovan and Bradley Cooper and “Battlestar Galactica” for the Sci-Fi channel.

Also included in Hardy’s repertoire, “The Mentalist” starring Simon Baker, “Dollhouse” for producer Joss Whedon and FOX, “Covert Affairs” with Piper Perabo, “Burn Notice” with Jeffrey Donovan, and “Make It Or Break It” for The Family Channel, “Mental” for FOX, shot in Bogota, Colombia, and “Persons Unknown”, NBC, shot in Mexico City.

Most recently, Hardy directed “The Librarians” with Noah Wylie for TNT, and “Powers” with Sharlto Copley for Sony PlayStation.

Hardy’s theatrical feature “December Boys” was winner of the Giffoni Film Festival Award, 2008. Released by Roadshow/Warner Bros, it starred Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame and Teresa Palmer.

Currently, Hardy is in development for “Dark Frontier”, a thrilling historical adventure series in the style of “Roots”, “Game of Thrones” and “Photos in the Attic”, a feature film love story with a war backdrop, in the mode of “The English Patient”, “Atonement” and “Casablanca”, to be shot in both Australia and France.
Hardy is also developing “It’s All Greek To Me”, a romantic comedy set in Greece, and “Burn”, an edgy feature set in the world of urban dance competitions.

Director appointed

Acclaimed Australian Director Rod Hardy has been signed to direct Photos in the Attic.

STOP PRESS:
​Photos In the Attic has a Producer.........introducing Phil Avalon.

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PITA PRODUCTIONS Pty Ltd ( our movie production company) is really proud to announce to the world today that we have taken the next step in our amazing movie project by appointing Mr PHIL AVALON as our Producer for our Photos in the Attic feature film . Stay tuned as this incredible story becomes a reality.


Phil is one of Australia's most successful independent film producers. He is a credited Producer/Writer/Director and actor who has been at the forefront of the Australian film industry for over 40 years. We know that his skills and talents are going to make our story come to life and powerfully reveal a sometimes overlooked part of the Great War .

Based on the stories of the Lost Diggers glass photographic plates rediscovered in 2010 in the Thuillier barn in Vignacourt, France. Photos in the Attic ( working title) is a sweeping, wartime romance between an Australian soldier and a carefree, sensuous French woman. Time has no boundaries as the story weaves its way from the future back to the past. In the tradition of Titanic, the story begins in the present day, in Paris, where, Marie Bonnaire, retraces the life of her beloved great grandmother, Rose in the village of Vignacourt 100 years ago.



Checkout Phil's story and his incredible career from his early years as a struggling actor to Director and Producer of some iconic pieces of Australian Film history, including his award winning Summer City that launched the career of Mel Gibson and others.

We are so excited to have Phil on board to enable us to take our story to the 1000's of descendants of those who took part in the Great War and to reveal some true stories discovered in that French Barn.

Phil has recently published his autobiography and it is well worth the read.

From Steel City to Hollywood.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/196109851?selectedversion=NBD55156443


The project moves now into the pre development stages where we strengthen it with financial backing, and professional input from peers of the industry and look at casting .
The American Film market will see the film in November.
We are excited about what lies ahead and we will keep you informed. Follow the project www.photosintheatticproject.com

In November 2015. at our launch we announced the “Friends of” initiative enabling people to be part of this amazing project.

Today we again extend this initiative to the general public . This has a twofold purpose . It will release the project to a larger audience .

Become a friend of the project.......we have some amazing memorabilia up for grabs.

Our thanks for being part of this amazing journey!

    How to become a "Friend of....."


​Local Community Attention.
Childers and Bundaberg embrace the Project. Check out the Bundaberg New Mail.​

      Check out the Prop Document

The Teaser Post Card collection.......


The Sad Digger..... one of the images in the Thuillier collection.
                ​George Gordon Gilbert
​                      artwork Isobel Fiechtner​

​George Petrou Artwork
​                          The Lost Diggers

Checkout the soundtrack sample.

Avalon Films Australia
producer- PHIL AVALON
avalonfilmsaustralia@gmail.com