From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Alister Grierson is an Australian film director and scriptwriter Born in Canberra in 1969 he completed his secondary schooling at Canberra Grammar graduated in Economics and Arts from the Australian National University and studied Japanese in Tokyo As an under 18 Australian Rules player he represented the ACT in the Teal Cup but later switched codes to Rugby playing 1st grade both for his school and the ANU Whilst at university his interest in filmmaking developed and he later gained a Master of Arts in Directing at AFTRS He has shot 15 short films winning three Tropfest awards and is the director of the feature film Kokoda which he cowrote In 2009 Grierson was invited on to the Avatar set during shooting by James Cameron and was selected to direct a 3D cavediving drama Sanctum using the Camerondeveloped Fusion Camera System The script is inspired by the neardeath experience of one of the writers Andrew Wight who was trapped in a cave collapse under the Nullarbor Plain It was shot at Warner Roadshow Studios on the Queensland Gold Coast and the film opened February 4th 2011 By midMarch the film had joined the top ten Worldwide Box Office Results Australian Films All Time and is now in ninth position with a reported gross of 71209310 Description above from the Wikipedia article Alister Grierson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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