Garth Davis

Garth Davis

Birth : 1974-01-01, Australia

History

Garth Davis (born 1974, in Brisbane) is an Australian commercial, television and film director. He is known for directing the Oscar-nominated film Lion (2016).

Profile

Garth Davis

Movies

Foe
Screenplay
Henrietta and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Will they risk their relationship & personal identity for a chance to survive in a new world?
Foe
Producer
Henrietta and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Will they risk their relationship & personal identity for a chance to survive in a new world?
Foe
Director
Henrietta and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Will they risk their relationship & personal identity for a chance to survive in a new world?
Mary Magdalene
Director
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
Lion
Director
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Bridge
Thanks
Dan, a closeted homosexual, goes to a cruising area under a bridge to confront his darkest secret. It isn't until he meets a younger and more confident Paul that he realises his biggest fear is just the beginning of something much closer to home.
Alice
Director
The story of a young couple who are expecting their first baby. We see Amanda’s anxiety and trepidation at the impending change in her life, and what it will mean to her. After tragedy strikes, we see the couple's crushed hopes and grief at their loss, and how they eventually move towards an acceptance of what has happened in their lives, and of each other.
P.I.N.S
Director
Parking Infringement Notification System or Pricks In Nerdy Suits, take your pick - as two explanations for the acronym of the title. Nevertheless P.I.N.S. is a documentary that profiles three Melbourne parking inspectors. The camera goes deep into the personal lives of Warwick, Paul and Rob capturing both the violent abuse they cop in the course of their rounds, as well as the turmoil of their after-hours existence. The three emerge as a trio of oddballs, each eccentric in their own special way.
A House in the Sky
Director
Based on the memoir of the same name, A House in the Sky tells the story of Amanda Lindhout, whose deep passion for exploration of the world's most remote and perilous places, took an unexpected turn when she was abducted in 2008 in Mogadishu, Somalia by a rebel terrorist group