
Birthday:
01-01-1959
(66 years)
Birthplace:
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Biography
Kriv Stenders is an Australian film director, writer, and producer. He gained prominence with the film Red Dog (2011), which became one of Australia's highest-grossing films and won numerous awards. Stenders has directed a variety of genres, including the thriller Kill Me Three Times (2014) and the war film Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019). His work is noted for its storytelling and visual style.
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Blacktown
Act like Peter
event2005
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Love can be difficult at the best of times, and the remarkable Blacktown is a disarmingly honest tale of love-against-the-odds. Office secretary Nikki (Nikki Owen) is disillusioned with her fraught, ‘sometime’ relationship with her married boyfriend, Peter. Emotionally scarred by the dysfunctional relationship, she all but gives up on the possibility of finding anything more meaningful. But in the wake of a torturous and disturbing blind date, Nikki meets Tony (Tony Ryan), a “black fella on a white bus”. Despite their obvious differences and Nikki’s disillusionment, the charismatic Tony shows Nikki that there is indeed room for love and romance in the desperate world of Blacktown. (Madman Entertainment)
Koko: A Red Dog Story
Act like Self
event2019 star_border 7.2
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The true story of an ordinary dog, whose good fortune and ability to connect with people catapults him to fame.
Bump
Act like Date #4 (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.3
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An unexpected pregnancy complicates the lives of two families. The series centers around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a surprise baby.
Mr Inbetween
Act like Terry (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 8.2
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Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.
Lucky Country
Director (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 4.4
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1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat's dream of living off the land has died and he is losing his grip on sanity. When three ex-soldiers arrive at their cabin one night Tom, like his father, believes they are providence.
The Illustrated Family Doctor
Director (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6
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Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be falling apart. A black comedy about coping with the modern world, based on the novel by David Snell.
Boxing Day
Director (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 5
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Told in real time and shot as a single take, BOXING DAY documents the minute by minute events across the course of an afternoon in the life of Chris Sykes - a recovering alcoholic and estranged father. Living alone on home detention, Chris is preparing Christmas lunch for his family when an old friend turns up at his doorstep and reveals a disturbing truth. When his daughter, his wife and her new boyfriend finally arrive, the situation slowly and inevitability escalates and we are drawn into the compelling story of a desperate father who finally exposes the dark and disturbing secret that has torn his family apart.
Red Dog
Director (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.3
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The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Kill Me Three Times
Director (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 5.6
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While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.
Lee Kernaghan: Boy From The Bush
Director (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 8
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LEE KERNAGHAN: BOY FROM THE BUSH is a part concert film and part road movie celebrating the life and music of this much-loved Australian Country singer. It combines the stunning landscapes, remarkable people and amazing stories that have inspired him over many years, with some of his greatest hits and a brand-new song performed live with his band at a specially filmed concert.
The Go-Betweens: Right Here
Writer (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.5
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A chronological history of one of the most influential bands to come out of Australia, the Go-Betweens.
Rose Gold
Creative Consultant (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 10
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After nearly 70 years of valiantly trying, what will it take for the Boomers to finally bring home an Olympic medal?
Why Anzac with Sam Neill
Director (1 ep.)
event2015
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Sam Neill examines the enduring myths of the Anzac legend, sharing his family's war stories and uncovering forgotten truths that haunt us still today.
Two/Out
Writer (1 ep.)
event1998
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Short film directed by Kriv Stenders based on the play, "Jack" by Jim McNeil. Starring - Tony Ryan & Richard Green Awards
Best Australian Short Film - 1998 AFI Awards
Best Short Film Under 15 Minutes - Dendy Awards 1998 Sydney Film Festival
Best Australian Short Film - The Erwin Rado Award 1998 Melbourne Film Festival
Best European Short Film - 1998 Rotterdam Film Festival
Best Director - 1998 St Kilda Film Festival
Best Short Film - 1999 Noosa Film Festival
Motherland
Director (1 ep.)
event1994
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Motherland is the story of two Latvian grandmothers who have lived in Australia (since the end of WWII), and although never knowing each other in their native Latvia, have become close friends since arriving in Australia. Not only did their similar experiences in their motherland draw them together, but these two elderly women have one other thing in common - they are the filmmaker's two grandmothers. Shot in black and white, in both Australia and Latvia, the film explores the women's lives, past and present. The film is roughly divided into two parts. In the first half, the women reflect on their lives in Australia, their families, their beliefs, and their memories of life and people in Latvia.
The Correspondent
Director (1 ep.)
new_releases Release: April 17, 2025
December 2013, in the shadow of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Australian journalist Peter Greste is confronted with the brutal realities of reporting from one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Accused of terrorism, Greste becomes a pawn in the middle of a deadly game full of corrupt officials and ancient rivalries – with only his wits keeping him alive.
Red Dog: True Blue
Director (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6.5
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When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will change his life forever.
Australia Day
Director (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.5
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On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.
Poacher
Director (1 ep.)
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Vengeance motivates a young man to go to war with the corrupt fishing barons that rule his town, sending him on an epic journey that transforms him from a small-time abalone poacher into a criminal gang boss.
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
Director (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.8
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Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
Brock: Over the Top
Writer (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5
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Brock: Over the Top is a feature length documentary that not only chronicles the extraordinary life of Australia’s greatest racing car driver, Peter Brock, but peels away the surface to reveal the profoundly human story behind the legend. This film is a cinematic, thrilling yet intimately personal portrait of a life lived on the racing track and in the public eye. Using a treasure trove of rare archival material coupled with candid interviews with the key characters in Peter Brock’s life including his family, his partners, and closest colleagues, this film tells the epic story of Brock's early obsession with cars, his hard won ascension to the top, his incredible record-breaking victories at Bathurst, his various professional and personal controversies, and his ultimate, tragic death on the race track.
Slim & I
Director (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7
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Documentary portrait of Joy McKean, Australia’s Queen of country music. Follows her performance and songwriting career, decades of touring around Australia, and her marriage of more than 50 years to fellow musician Slim Dusty.
The Principal
Director (4 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.3
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When history teacher Matt Bashir is promoted to Principal of a notoriously violent Boys' school in Sydney's south-west, his radical approach brings him into conflict and leaves his personal life dangerously exposed. But just when he seems to be making progress, a 17-year-old student is found dead on school grounds.
The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook
Director (6 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7
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History is taking to the seas and walking in the footsteps of Captain James Cook. 250 years after Cook began his epic exploration of the Pacific, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Piano) journeys in his wake uncovering stories that resonate from those times on both sides of the beach. Sam begins with a disclaimer – he is merely an actor – but the story of Cook, and the impact he has had on the Pacific in the 250 years since his first voyage, has always fascinated him.
Doctor Doctor
Director (4 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7.2
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The story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back and bite him.
Between Two Worlds
Director (2 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5.5
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Cate Walford's relationship with vicious, business tycoon husband, Phillip, is on the ropes and their tempestuous home life is trapped in a tangled web of lies and manipulation. Through a shocking twist of fate, this dark and murky world collides with the seemingly disparate and disconnected, warm and loving world of a widow and her footy star son and musical daughter.
Jack Irish
Director (2 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6.9
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Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Wake in Fright
Director (2 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.8
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John Grant is returning to Sydney after a year teaching at a one-classroom school in the Outback. Shortly after hitting the road, he collides with a kangaroo, and finds himself marooned in a small mining town, awaiting repairs on his car. With little to do but drink beer, John is seduced into a raucous, illegal game of two-up. After a short, exhilarating winning streak, he loses everything, which triggers a dangerous series of events that render John a broken and desperate man.
Going Country
Director (2 ep.)
event2021
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Justine Clarke takes a road trip into the heart of Australian country music, discovering how these musicians capture who we are as a people and a nation.
The Disappearance of William Tyrrell
Director (4 ep.)
event2021 star_border 3
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The series breaks down the investigation into a step-by-step analysis, told through the captivating story skills of Australian journalist Caroline Overington, who has been covering the case since the beginning, and through the explosive first-hand experience of former Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin.
The Black Hand
Director (3 ep.)
event2023
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Anthony LaPaglia explores an Australian Italian community's struggle against hard times, extreme politics, looming war and the mafia in their midst.
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