Tim Slade (director)

Tim Slade is an Australian born film and television director, who works primarily on documentaries or factual films. His films have screened theatrically, at film festivals and on broadcast television in the UK, Europe, Asia, the United States, South America as well as in Australia.

His feature documentary film '4', which explores the nature of the seasons and how they shape who we are in four disparate corners of the world, won a Gold HUGO at the Hugo Television Awards in Chicago, and was nominated for two Australian Film Institute Awards, an International Documentary Association award, and at the Banff World Television Festival. It received strong reviews upon its theatrical release,^[1] and screened in Australian cinemas for 16 weeks.

Blank Canvas, made for broadcaster Foxtel, dynamically follows Sydney Dance Company and its Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela as they create the dance work 'We Unfold', based on a musical work by the Italian composer Ezio Bosso.

His other completed films include Every Other Weekend, a short drama which has screened widely at film festivals in Europe, the USA, the UK, Australia and South America as well as on MTV networks in the US, the documentary Musical Renegades and the short form I Was Robert Mitchum, which merges documentary and fiction.

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