Richard Lowenstein

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Lowenstein
Occupation	Filmmaker
Date Of Birth	Mar 1, 1959(1959-03-01)
Age	65
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Pisces

Richard Lowenstein Biography

Richard Lowenstein is one of the most popular and richest Filmmaker who was born on March 1, 1959 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Richard Lowenstein (born 1 March 1959) is an Australian filmmaker. He has written, produced and directed: feature films, including Strikebound (1984), Dogs in Space (1986) and He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001); music videos for bands such as INXS and U2; concert performance films, Australian Made: The Movie (1987) and U2: LoveTown (1989); and TV adverts.

His short film, Evictions (1979), which won the Erwin Rado Prize – for Best Short Film – at the Melbourne International Film Festival the following year, described Melbourne during the Great Depression. It was based on his mother’s book, Weevils in the Flour (1978). The film detailed police evicting unemployed unionists. In 1980 Lowenstein directed a music video, “Leap for Lunch”, for the debut single by art punk band, The Ears – he shared a house with their lead singer, Sam Sejavka. In 1982 he directed one for “Talking to a Stranger”, a single by rock band, Hunters & Collectors. He followed with “Lumps of Lead” for the same group and “Fraction Too Much Friction” for Tim Finn as his first solo single in 1983. At the Countdown Music and Video Awards for 1983, he won Best Promotional Video for “Fraction Too Much Friction”.

Richard Lowenstein Net Worth

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

Richard Lowenstein was born on 1 March 1959 in Melbourne. His mother was the author, oral historian, and activist, Wendy Lowenstein (née Katherin Wendy Robertson, 1927–2006). His father is Werner Lowenstein, also an activist, who had fled Nazi Germany to United Kingdom and was relocated to Australia in 1940 as one of the Dunera boys. The couple married in July 1947; and had three children, Peter, Martie and Richard. Lowenstein attended Brinsley Road Community School from 1973 to 1974; and graduated from Swinburne Institute of Technology, Film and Television Department in 1979.

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For Irish group, U2, he has provided music videos – “Desire” and “Angel of Harlem” (both 1988) and a concert performance film, U2: LoveTown (1989). In 1991 he applied for funding from Film Finance Corporation Australia to adapt Robin Klein’s novel, Came Back to Show You I Could Fly, into the children’s film, Say a Little Prayer, which he directed in 1993. In 1999 he contributed a chapter, “Telexes in Space: A Tale of Two Films”, to the collection, Second Take: Australian Film-makers Talk, edited by Geoff Burton and Raffaele Caputo, which provides an explanation of his film-making style. Lowenstein co-produced the satirical music series John Safran’s Music Jamboree (2002) as well as John Safran vs God (2004) for SBS independent.

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Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Filmmaker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Richard Lowenstein celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.