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Kimble Rendall

Director/Writer

Kimble Rendall is a master craftsman, bringing his skills in suspense, action, horror and visual FX to his films. His films have garnered him cult status worldwide amongst fans of horror and genre-based movies. Trained as a film editor, he developed his directing skills on international music videos and commercials winning all major awards including a Cannes Lion. With the screening of his short film Hayride to Hell he came to international recognition as part of Filmmakers of Tomorrow at the Telluride Film Festival.

Rendall honed his skills as a Second Unit Director on such huge VFX films as The Matrix Trilogy, I Robot, Knowing, Ghost Rider and Underworld.

In doing so, he has worked closely with some of the most popular and talented actors in the world such as Robert De Niro, Will Smith, Jeremy Irons, Keanu Reeves, Sienna Miller, Nicholas Cage, Laurence Fishbourne, Gerard Butler and Li Bingbing.

Rendall’s 2012 feature movie Bait 3D opened at #1 in China after premiering at the Venice Film Festival to standing ovation. It was Australia’s highest grossing film the year of release.

In 2016 Rendall co-wrote and directed Guardians of the Tomb. The film opened in China at #4 and also was one of the highest grossing Australian films when released.

Marrying film and music, Rendall often composes music for his own films. He was co-founder of legendary Sydney punk band The XL Capris and also The Hoodoo Gurus, now considered Australian rock royalty.

 

 

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Kimble’s interest in cross platform storytelling and virtual production has led him to speak at conferences around the world. From American Film Institutes LA Digital Conference, to The Copenghagen Climate Council alongside Tim Flannery and Richard Branson.

BAIT 3D

Kimble (aka El Presidente) is a natural public speaker with a hilarious and beautifully understated sense of humour. He is unique, and utterly Australian. During the course of filming the Matrix movies, every Friday night as we packed up for the week, El Presidente would make an appearance on the set we were working on that week – standing at the top of a balcony, riding in on a motorbike, or some such presidential entrance.

We would then be regaled with a speech commending our loyalty to El Presidente’s Republic, and highlighting the week’s achievements…often bringing someone forward to sing, to dance, to speak. 

Always El Presidente entertained us, and we would all go home with the biggest smiles on our faces. As word spread, our Friday nights became sell-outs. The buzz was : ‘what’s El Pres going to be doing tonight ?’

Kimble is a master of dry humour and timeless stories, sometimes about a dear aunt or someone else’s mother…always delightful and insanely Australian.

Toby Pease, Producer

Kimble and I have worked together on a number of projects for over 15 years. He can manage extraordinary minds and help such minds express the most difficult intellectual challenges humans face today. He is nor awed by science , religion, mathematics or the just plain grit needed to just live.

He respects magic, dreams, fantasy, the past, present and the future.

He weaves stories, helps solve problems.

He wrote and presented one of the most profound speeches at the Copenhagen Climate Council .He accepted that earth is a living thing, Gaia, and designed a communications strategy that would use the synapses of the energy of the earth to communicate the need to address climate change. Astonishing.

Richard Branson and Nelson Mandela formed – The Elders –  using Kimble’s thinking in the mix.

Kimble can coax, encourage thinkers, writers and creative minds to put their work, theories and thinking into a form so others can share and robustly debate.

He is a mind wrangler .

Caroline McFarlane, CEO, Science and Climate Change

CUT