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Claudia Karvan to claim 2016 Chauvel Award

Australian actress Claudia Karvan is set to receive the 2016 Chauvel Award as part of the 14th annual Gold Coast Film Festival. 

The Chauvel Award, named in honour of Charles Chauvel, commenced in 1993 and acknowledges an individual who has made significant contribution to Australian cinema.

On April 9, the Gold Coast Film Festival will welcome audiences to David Stratton In Conversation With Claudia Karvan. 

The night will be an intimate look at Karvan’s career, accompanied by footage from her films and moderated by film critic and previous Chauvel Award recipient, David Stratton. 

Stratton said he was looking forward to the event.

“I have known Claudia since she started acting and even appeared in a film with her once – something I’m certain will be referred to in our informal chat," he said.  

"Her career has gone from strength to strength, and she is unquestionably one of our finest actors.”

Karvan Karvan first appeared in Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide (1987) with Judy Davis, then in Phillip Noyce’s Echoes of Paradise (1987).

In 2004, Karvan began work on the highly popular series Love My Way (2004), as creator, producer and star. 

The series won the Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama Series and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Drama Series over three consecutive years. 

Between 1987 and 2004, Karvan was nominated for twelve more Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards, winning her category – Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama – in 1996 for her role in G.P. (1989). In 1998, she received The Palms Spring Short Film Festival Audience Favourite Award for Two Girls and a Baby (1998). 

Karvan was selected as this year’s recipient by six 2016 Chauvel Award Committee members including Jan Chapman, producer of the AFI Best Film winner, Lantana and Academy Award winner The Piano, and 2002 Chauvel Award recipient, alongside Melanie Coombs, producer of the Academy Award winner Harvie Krumpet and film industry veteran, actor and producer Alan Finney. 

Australian film critic and TV personality David Stratton, Screen Queensland chief executive, Tracey Vieira and Bond University’s Emeritus Professor Bruce Molloy are also a part of the 2016 Chauvel Committee.

Past recipients of the award have include producer Anthony Buckley, directors George Miller and Rolf de Heer, actors Bryan Brown and Geoffrey Rush, cinematographer John Seale and documentary makers Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson. 

The 10-day Gold Coast Film Festival will be held from March 31 to April 10.

  1. Congratulations Claude, first saw young Claudia at the ripe age of 14 I think, on High Tide, my first feature set & hers, then worked with her again years later as Gaffer on Secret Life, spent 2 seasons & what a delightful, intelligent, talented & professional woman/actor/mother she’s become.
    All the Best Claude
    Michael H

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