Posie Graeme-Evans
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Posie Graeme-Evans spent her childhood travelling between Europe
, Asia
and Australia
. Having worked extensively in the Australian film and television industries as an editor, director, writer and producer/executive producer, Posie is now a full-time novelist (see below).
during the Suez Crisis
and spent three years in 1960s Cyprus
during Turkish
-Greek
Cypriot conflicts. She was educated at many schools including The Fahan School
in Hobart, Tasmania
, and the Wilderness School
in Adelaide, South Australia
. Whilst at Wilderness, Posie topped the State in South Australia in Ancient History in the Leaving Certificate. She married her first husband, Tim Jacobs, in 1971 and had her first daughter, Emma in 1972 while studying at Flinders university for her BA, awarded in 1973.
TV props department and she went on to work at the Tasmanian Film Corporation as an assistant editor and then editor. Credits there include assistant editor (sound and picture) on Manganinie and Fatty and George, plus editing a number of documentaries. Work at the ABC followed including directing on 1982 Commonwealth Games, directing football and basketball and, also, field and gallery director for "Nationwide", the forerunner of the 7.30 report. Selected to be part of a course run by Alan Bateman to identify the ABC's next generation of Executive Producers - one of eight of the hundreds who applied nationally - she topped the course. Fellow attendees included Kris Noble, later Director of Drama, Nine Network and EP of Big Brother; Graham Thorburn, formerly Head of Film and Television, Australian Film, Television and Radio School; Helena Harris, who, with Posie, later co-created Hi-5 and Ric Pellizari, long-time producer of Blue Heelers in its glory days and later, EP of Neighbours.
In 1983, Graeme-Evans moved to Sydney
to direct episodes of ABC-TV music drama series Sweet and Sour
(1984).. "I was the worst of the five directors... I was over-confident and thought I had the material under control. I didn't... it was our first Christmas here; we had no friends, no family and I was distraught." Posie later went on to produce "Sons and Daughters" for Grundy, and "Raffertys Rules" for the Seven Network.
Posie married her second husband Andrew Blaxland in 1990, the same year she and Andrew co-founded their production company Millennium Pictures
.
Over her long career, Graeme-Evans has established herself as one of the pre-eminent Independent creator-producers in the Australian film and television industry. Her first success under the Millennium banner was as producer of the two AFI nominated children's series The Miraculous Mellops (1991-2). Then in the mid '90's came Mirror, Mirror
co produced with Dave Gibson of the Wellington based Gibson Group. "MIrror Mirror" was also nominated for best children's drama in both New Zealand and Australia. It secured an AFI for best new talent in Petra Yared and won Best Childrens Drama in the annual Listener awards in New Zealand. Posie then went on to co-create and co-produce the many times Logie winning, and Daytime Emmy nominated, i-5" seen now in more than 80 countries worldwide. In 1997, Posie produced Doom Runners
. Starring Tim Curry and commissioned by Nickelodeon and Showtime, this was a made-for-TV film about a group of children in a post-apocalyptic Earth trying to reach the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. She was also creator and producer of the high-rating, much loved and many times awarded Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters
(2000-08). Posie also produced the 1996 pilot TV movie of the same name starring Jack Thompson as Jack McLeod. Shown on mothers day 1996 the pilot became the highest rating Australian TV movie of all time. Her husband, Andrew Blaxland also worked on McLeod's Daughters as Executive in Charge of Production. During this period, Posie also co-wrote three best selling CDs
of "Songs from the Series" of McLeods Daughters with composer and long-time collaborator, multiple Aria winner, Chris Harriott.
In 2001, the Screen Producers of Australia awarded Posie its innaugural Independent Producer of the Year award for her body of work and in late 2002, she was named alongside Meryl Streep by Variety Magazine as "one of 20 Significant woman working in film and television" in its annual worldwide survey.
In December 2002, Posie became Director of Drama for the Nine Network. Also, between October 2002 and June 2006 her first three novels were published worldwide. "The Innocent" ISBN 0-7318-1120-8, "The Exiled" ISBN 0-7318-1121-6 and "The Beloved" ISBN 0-7318-1122-4 (in the US, "The Uncrowned Queen") are a trilogy set in C15th England during the tumultuous Wars of The Roses. In November 2005 and resigned from Nine to take up a new multi-book international deal from her publishers, Simon and Schuster in New York. In October 2010 "The Dressmaker" ISBN-13 9780731814725, Posie's fourth book, was again published nationally and internationally by Simon and Schuster. At the time of writing "The Island House", Posie's fifth book, is being redied for publication in early 2012
Selling out their interest in Hi-5 in 2008, Posie Graeme-Evans and Andrew Blaxland now divide their time between Tasmania and Sydney. At the current time, Posie is concentrating on her career as a novelist.
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Having worked extensively in the Australian film and television industries as an editor, director, writer and producer/executive producer, Posie is now a full-time novelist (see below).
Early life
Graeme-Evans is the daughter of a novelist, Eleanor, and an RAF pilot. As a child, she travelled with her parents, to EgyptEgypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
during the Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,...
and spent three years in 1960s Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
during Turkish
Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriots are the ethnic Turks and members of the Turkish-speaking ethnolinguistic community of the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The term is used to refer explicitly to the indigenous Turkish Cypriots, whose Ottoman Turkish forbears colonised the island in 1571...
-Greek
Greek Cypriots
Greek Cypriots are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community at 77% of the population. Greek Cypriots are mostly members of the Church of Cyprus, an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity...
Cypriot conflicts. She was educated at many schools including The Fahan School
The Fahan School
This article is about the Tasmanian school. For the Irish district, see Fahan.Fahan School is a small independent, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, located in Sandy Bay, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia...
in Hobart, Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
, and the Wilderness School
Wilderness School
Wilderness School is an independent, non-denominational Christian, day and boarding school for girls, located in Medindie, an inner northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia....
in Adelaide, South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
. Whilst at Wilderness, Posie topped the State in South Australia in Ancient History in the Leaving Certificate. She married her first husband, Tim Jacobs, in 1971 and had her first daughter, Emma in 1972 while studying at Flinders university for her BA, awarded in 1973.
Career
Her first job, at age 25, was with New ZealandNew Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
TV props department and she went on to work at the Tasmanian Film Corporation as an assistant editor and then editor. Credits there include assistant editor (sound and picture) on Manganinie and Fatty and George, plus editing a number of documentaries. Work at the ABC followed including directing on 1982 Commonwealth Games, directing football and basketball and, also, field and gallery director for "Nationwide", the forerunner of the 7.30 report. Selected to be part of a course run by Alan Bateman to identify the ABC's next generation of Executive Producers - one of eight of the hundreds who applied nationally - she topped the course. Fellow attendees included Kris Noble, later Director of Drama, Nine Network and EP of Big Brother; Graham Thorburn, formerly Head of Film and Television, Australian Film, Television and Radio School; Helena Harris, who, with Posie, later co-created Hi-5 and Ric Pellizari, long-time producer of Blue Heelers in its glory days and later, EP of Neighbours.
In 1983, Graeme-Evans moved to Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
to direct episodes of ABC-TV music drama series Sweet and Sour
Sweet and Sour (TV series)
Sweet and Sour is an Australian television series which screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1984. It was created by Tim Gooding and Johanna Pigott and was produced internally for the ABC by Jan Chapman...
(1984).. "I was the worst of the five directors... I was over-confident and thought I had the material under control. I didn't... it was our first Christmas here; we had no friends, no family and I was distraught." Posie later went on to produce "Sons and Daughters" for Grundy, and "Raffertys Rules" for the Seven Network.
Posie married her second husband Andrew Blaxland in 1990, the same year she and Andrew co-founded their production company Millennium Pictures
Millennium Pictures
Millennium Pictures Pty Limited is a film and media production company based in Rosewood, NSW, Australia and run by Posie Graeme-Evans and her husband.-Works:* The Miraculous Mellops * Mirror, Mirror * McLeod's Daughters...
.
Over her long career, Graeme-Evans has established herself as one of the pre-eminent Independent creator-producers in the Australian film and television industry. Her first success under the Millennium banner was as producer of the two AFI nominated children's series The Miraculous Mellops (1991-2). Then in the mid '90's came Mirror, Mirror
Mirror, Mirror (TV series)
Mirror, Mirror is a television programme co-produced by Australia and New Zealand. Presented as a single complete story given in a serial with 20 episodes, there are cliffhangers between some of the episodes....
co produced with Dave Gibson of the Wellington based Gibson Group. "MIrror Mirror" was also nominated for best children's drama in both New Zealand and Australia. It secured an AFI for best new talent in Petra Yared and won Best Childrens Drama in the annual Listener awards in New Zealand. Posie then went on to co-create and co-produce the many times Logie winning, and Daytime Emmy nominated, i-5" seen now in more than 80 countries worldwide. In 1997, Posie produced Doom Runners
Doom Runners
Doom Runners is an Australian science fiction television children's film.The story concerns a group of children in a post-apocalyptic world searching for the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. However, the Doom Troopers , led by Dr. Kao , want to get there first and will do anything to stop...
. Starring Tim Curry and commissioned by Nickelodeon and Showtime, this was a made-for-TV film about a group of children in a post-apocalyptic Earth trying to reach the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. She was also creator and producer of the high-rating, much loved and many times awarded Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...
(2000-08). Posie also produced the 1996 pilot TV movie of the same name starring Jack Thompson as Jack McLeod. Shown on mothers day 1996 the pilot became the highest rating Australian TV movie of all time. Her husband, Andrew Blaxland also worked on McLeod's Daughters as Executive in Charge of Production. During this period, Posie also co-wrote three best selling CDs
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
of "Songs from the Series" of McLeods Daughters with composer and long-time collaborator, multiple Aria winner, Chris Harriott.
In 2001, the Screen Producers of Australia awarded Posie its innaugural Independent Producer of the Year award for her body of work and in late 2002, she was named alongside Meryl Streep by Variety Magazine as "one of 20 Significant woman working in film and television" in its annual worldwide survey.
In December 2002, Posie became Director of Drama for the Nine Network. Also, between October 2002 and June 2006 her first three novels were published worldwide. "The Innocent" ISBN 0-7318-1120-8, "The Exiled" ISBN 0-7318-1121-6 and "The Beloved" ISBN 0-7318-1122-4 (in the US, "The Uncrowned Queen") are a trilogy set in C15th England during the tumultuous Wars of The Roses. In November 2005 and resigned from Nine to take up a new multi-book international deal from her publishers, Simon and Schuster in New York. In October 2010 "The Dressmaker" ISBN-13 9780731814725, Posie's fourth book, was again published nationally and internationally by Simon and Schuster. At the time of writing "The Island House", Posie's fifth book, is being redied for publication in early 2012
Selling out their interest in Hi-5 in 2008, Posie Graeme-Evans and Andrew Blaxland now divide their time between Tasmania and Sydney. At the current time, Posie is concentrating on her career as a novelist.