Hamish Downie is an Australian writer/producer and music video director based in Japan. Notable work includes the music videos for Robyn Loau’s single “Never Let You Down”, as well as “Everybody’s gotta learn sometime”, the horror fan-film “Silent Hill: Stolen Heart”, and the award-winning WW2 short, “An American Piano”. In 2012, he produced the short film, “Prism”, based on the many-worlds theory, which was one of the finalists in the 2012 Quantum Shorts Competition in Singapore. “An American Piano”, which he wrote and produced was officially selected to screen at the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) Kids 2015, the BAFTA-qualifying festival Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Sapporo Short Fest, Festival de Cannes (out of competition), and was invited to play at the Regal Cinema (Australia) in front of Hayao Miyazaki’s swan song “The Wind Rises” to commemorate the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. “An American Piano” won Best Film in Documentary at the 2nd Navi Mumbai International Film Festival, and won Best Film at the Golden Diana Film Festival in Austria.

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Notable Work:

Music Videos

Robyn Loau Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime 2015 (Director)

Frankie Braggadocio Life from a Highrise 2012 (Production Assistant)

Frankie Braggadocio Love Killer 2012 (Production Assistant)

Robyn Loau Never Let You Down 2011 (co-Director)

Short Films

Silence 2016 (Writer/Director/Editor)

Pieces of 8 2014 (Art Department, Boom Operator)

An American Piano 2014 Drama (Writer/Producer/First Assistant Director)

Opposites Attract 2013 (First Assistant Director)

The Sea Monkey Girl 2013 (co-Writer, Director, Producer)

Fish & Love 2013 (Production Assistant)

Elegance 2012 (Assistant Producer, Set Dresser)

Prism 2012 (Producer)

Day of the Schoolgirl – Prelude 2012 (Assistant Producer)

Silent Hill: Stolen Heart 2011 (co-Writer, Producer, Set Dresser)

Master Martian 2001 (Director, Animator)

Web Series

Pieces of 8 Behind the Scenes (in post-production) (Editor/Interview Cameraman – 8 episodes)

Paul Leeming – Mars One application video 2014 (Cameraman)

Spring Day in Tokyo 2011 (Cameraman – 4 episodes)