My Biograghy

“A remarkably sure touch”-George Miller, director, Mad Max, Witches of East wick, Babe.
“A gripping psychological portrait” -Hollywood Reporter review of Face of the Enemy

From his graduation film Hooker & Son drawing plaudits from international director George Miller to producing commercials that have garnered Gold and Silver Lions at the Cannes International Commercial Festival, the world’s most prestigious commercials award, and on into screenwriting Philip has steadily increased his reputation as a filmmaker.

After graduating from film school he was the In-House Producer for John Street, considered Australia’s premiere commercial photographer, who was venturing into commercial production. The “Lions” testify to the quality of production Philip was responsible for. John encouraged Philip to develop his photography skills and afterwards, Philip maintained a photography sideline. By the time he left Australia, he had received assignments from  leading Australian Fashion magazines

PHILIP ALDERTON

Photographer & Filmmaker

He produced several shorts and documentaries for award-winning director Peter Tammer including Journey into Fear winner of Best Documentary at the Melbourne and Edinburgh Film Festivals. Philip further co-created/co-directed/produced Australia’s first feature-length video drama, The Feature Video Drama.
This lead to his joining Australia’s biggest production company’s, Crawford’s, directing department, first working on the long-running Carson’s Law, an early Nicole Kidman series,  followed by Special Squad, then Australia’s biggest action series and the first co-production series between Australia and a US Studio (Paramount).
Tri-Star-based Chestnut Hill Prods, purchased his treatment Dead Heart, a murder mystery, which Philip Noyce (The Quiet American, Clear and Present Danger, Bone Collectors) was attached to direct.  This brought Philip to LA.

He now has three produced screenplays under his own name (Face of the Enemy, The Expendables and Drop Dead Gorgeous) and has ghostwritten, revised and several others.  He has worked with producers such as David Permut (Dragnet, etc.), Lauren Weissman (Love You to Death, Sweetheart’s Dance etc.) the John Davies Co., Lucas Foster (ex-prod Bad Boys, Crimson Tide, etc.) Bill Stewart (The Rock) and others

He was a production consultant for a Spanish-language evangelistic broadcaster which is the fastest-growing Christian Church in the world and a major media conglomerate in South America.  Working from LA’s first pure digital studio they produced an average of 12 hours of TV a week. Further, he consulted on a series of features they produced based on the Spanish market’s premiere romance novelist’s books.

Photographically he has shot George Clooney, Ben Stiller, Adrianna Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio and others, with his work published around the world. 

Philip is now releasing his writer / director film Young Sexy & Dead while working on his next projects: The Readings and Skinless.
Philip holds US, Australian and EU passports.
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