Pip Karmel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pip Karmel
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Mar 27, 1963(1963-03-27)
Age	61
Birthplace	Adelaide
Country	Australia
Birth City	South Australia
Horoscope	Pisces

Pip Karmel Biography

Pip Karmel is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on March 27, 1963 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Philippa “Pip” Karmel, born 27 March 1963, is an Australian filmmaker. She has been a film editor since 1988 and worked with Scott Hicks from 2008 to 2007. Their work together includes Shine in 1996. She has directed and written many films, including Me Myself II (2000), which was distributed internationally.

Shine’s (1996) editing by Karmel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing. It also received the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Achievements in Editing was won. Karmel was nominated by the Australian Film Institute Award in Best Direction and Best Screenplay for Me Myself I (2001).

Karmel and Vincent Sheehan wrote a screenplay for a comedy What Alice Forgot, and in 2012 received a grant to support further development of a film.

Karmel was a writer and director in the 1990s. The episode she directed, The Long Ride for Under the Skin, won the Australian Film Institute Award. Hicks convinced Karmel to edit Shine, the film Hicks had directed and co-written. Shine (1996) is Hicks’ most well-known film. It is based upon the life of David Helfgott who was a concert pianist after he had been in mental institution for several years. David Stratton stated in his Variety review that “Securing the cooperation of the musician was evidently crucial to Jane Scott’s accomplished production. Geoffrey Simpson’s fine camerawork, and Pip Karmel’s editing, the latter skillfully shaping a rich amount of material into a fast paced, compelling narrative. Karmel has edited many more films with Hicks.

Pip Karmel Net Worth

Pip Karmel is one of the richest Film Director from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pip Karmel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Karmel was born to Peter Karmel, an Australian economist, professor and university administrator. She studied visual arts at Adelaide. In the mid- 1980s, she was an assistant editor. Andrew Prowse was her editor. She was an assistant editor on many films, including Call Me Mr. Brown (1985), Scott Hicks first feature film. After graduating from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, she studied film editing and film directing. Hicks’ film Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988) was her first feature as an editor. She interrupted her studies. Sex Rules (1989), her graduate film, was a short film.

Karmel was a director and writer on Me Myself I (2000) throughout the 1990s. Karmel’s script examines the choices made in life by an unmarried woman, who is now a successful journalist. In the film, Karmel enters an alternate reality in which she marries a former lover and has three children. Although the film was mostly seen in Australia, it was widely distributed internationally and was well-reviewed. Roger Ebert and other critics have emphasized Rachel Griffiths’ performance as the lead. However, Andrew Sarris in The New York Observer noted that “In any case, Ms. Karmel has earned the right for a long, fruitful directorial career, whether she was an erstwhile writer or editor of short films. Me Myself I is one of the most striking feature film debuts ever.”

Karmel has written a screenplay for a film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks’ 2001 novel, Year of Wonders, which is a story of a 17th-century plague year in an English village. As of 2012, this film, which Karmel is slated to direct, is “in development”.

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Pip Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Pip Karmel celebrates birthday on March 27 of every year.