Production

Jan Chapman

Born 1950-03-28 · Newcastle, Australia

Acting credits

Inside 'The Piano' poster
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This 1993 program about the making of 'The Piano' features interviews with director Jane Campion; actors Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, and Sam Neill; and producer Jan Chapman.

Inside 'The Piano'

1993

Cinefile: Reel Women poster
NR

Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. A program made to accompany a Channel 4 season of films directed and produced by women.

Cinefile: Reel Women

1995

'The Piano': 25 Years On poster
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In this conversation, director Jane Campion and producer Jan Chapman reminisce about their journey through the making of 'The Piano'. It was shot in 2018 at Karekare Beach in New Zealand, one of the film's locations.

'The Piano': 25 Years On

2018

The Nature of Lantana poster
8.0

The making of Lantana, a 2001 Australian drama film directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey.

The Nature of Lantana

2002

Senses of Cinema poster
1.0

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.

Senses of Cinema

2022

Renegades: Fragments from a Diary of Three Years' Experience 1970-1973 poster
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A fragmented film, largely following street performer George Shevtsov at the 1970 Vietnam Moratorium, the Odyssey Pop Festival at Wallacia in 1971, and street theatre sneezing for lunchtime crowds. The film then takes a darker turn, contrasting audio from a court case with footage of police.

Renegades: Fragments from a Diary of Three Years' Experience 1970-1973

1974

Hope poster
NR

A family struggle with their religious beliefs when their son is badly injured in a car crash and requires stem-cell therapy.

Hope

2008

Behind the camera

The Piano poster
7.4

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

The Piano

1993

Holy Smoke poster
5.7

While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.

Holy Smoke

1999

Bright Star poster
6.6

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

Bright Star

2009

Two Friends poster
6.3

The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of nine months.

Two Friends

1986

Lantana poster
6.7

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

Lantana

2001

The Daughter poster
6.3

In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.

The Daughter

2015

Love Serenade poster
6.0

Two sisters in an Australian country town develop a fierce and competitive crush on their new neighbour, a brooding and self-centred radio personality.

Love Serenade

1996

No artwork available
NR

A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.

The Lizard King

1988

The Last Days of Chez Nous poster
5.8

The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.

The Last Days of Chez Nous

1992

Walk the Talk poster
7.2

A well-meaning but misguided talent agent uses his paraplegic girlfriend's government compensation to fund his quest to resurrect a faded club singer's career.

Walk the Talk

2000