Director

Colin Cairnes

Directing

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Active

Regular directing credits.

TMDB popularity

2.3

Moderate attention

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 5All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 1083156

IMDb ID: nm1454108

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1995 - 2025

Years active: 31

Average TMDB rating: 6.22

Wikidata: Q114158048

Frequent jobs

Director (8)Executive Producer (4)Writer (2)Producer (1)

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Biography

Colin Cairnes is approximately one half of the Cairnes Brothers writing/directing duo. Col and Cam's debut feature, 100 Bloody Acres (starring Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson) was released in 2013 to rave reviews with Matt Zoller-Seitz at rogerebert.com calling it "the best low budget horror-comedy since Shaun of the Dead". The film won the Midnight X-treme Award at the Sitges Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Sampson) at the 2013 AACTAs - Australia's Academy Awards.

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