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Al Clark Al Clark (born BIRTHDAY IN HERE) is a film producer, screenwriter and author. He is best known as executive producer on the award-winning Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (this could be a link).

Born in Huelva in Southern Spain (LINK IN HERE), Clark moved to London when he was how old. He began his career as a journalist on the London magazine Time Out (LINK IN HERE) before joining Virgin Records LINK IN HERE, first as publicity director, then as founder and editor of The Film Yearbook, and finally as head of production for the Virgin film division CITATION NEEDED. There, he was co-producer on a number of films including Nineteen Eighty-Four (director Michael Radford) LINK HERE and Aria (directors Robert Altman, Jean-Luc Godard, Nicolas Roeg and others) LINKS HERE, and as executive producer, Absolute Beginners (director Julien Temple) LINKS HERE and Gothic (director Ken Russell). LINKS HERE CITATION NEEDED IN WHAT YEAR he moved to Sydney, Australia. In WHAT YEAR he was appointed to the board of Australian Film Commission. LINKS HERE CITATION NEEDED During this period he produced The Crossing (director George Ogilvie) LINKS HERE starring Russell Crowe, with whom he later worked again on Heaven’s Burning LINKS HERE WHAT YEAR. In 1994 he produced Stephan Elliott’s The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which was nominated for a Golden Globe as best picture, won an Oscar for costume design, plus two BAFTAs and multiple festival awards, and remains one of the most successful Australian films of all time. The stage musical adaptation that followed played successfully in Australia and New Zealand, ran for three years in London’s West End, for 15 months on Broadway, has played in foreign language productions in Italy and Brazil, and is currently on nationwide tours of the US and UK. LINKS, CITATIONS NEEDED NEEDS YEARS, CITATIONS, LINKS Clark’s other producing credits include Eye of the Beholder, also directed by Stephan Elliott and starring Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd, director John Polson’s Siam Sunset, Scott Roberts’ The Hard Word starring Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths and Joel Edgerton, and Ana Kokkinos’ The Book of Revelation, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. His more recent productions are Blessed - which reunited him with director Ana Kokkinos, also premiering at Toronto, and winning the jury prize for best screenplay at the 2009 San Sebastian Film Festival – and Red Hill, a contemporary western, with director Patrick Hughes making an outstanding feature debut. Invited to the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, and subsequently sold around the world,MORE SPECIFIC NEEDED it was released by Sony Pictures in the US and Australia, and by Momentum in the UK. WHAT YEARS As executive producer, Clark’s credits include Andrew Dominik’s Chopper YEARS, LINKS – which won numerous awards LINKS, SPECIFIC AWARDS and launched the international career of Eric Bana CITATION NEEDED- Darren Ashton’s mockumentary Razzle Dazzle, which premiered at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, and the musical Goddess, directed by Mark Lamprell, released in Australia by Roadshow in March 2013. LINKS NEEDED Clark served on the official juries of the San Sebastian and Valladolid Film Festivals WHAT YEARS, CITATIONS NEEDED and is also the author of two books: Raymond Chandler in Hollywood and The Lavender Bus. YEARS, PUBLISHERS NEDED He was the recipient of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Raymond Longford Award for lifetime achievement, in January 2013. CITATION NEEDED