Ivan Malekin

Directing

Ivan Malekin

Place of birth

Melbourne, Australia

Known for

Directing

Credits

45 titles

Ivan Malekin is a prolific producer, director and editor. Founder of Nexus Production Group, he has been making films since 2007, his work spanning from Australia to Europe to America. Select works include improvised feature films like "Friends, Foes & Fireworks" (2018), "In Corpore" (2020), and "Machination" (2022), and the PBS documentary “Cats of Malta” (2023). Since embracing improvisational cinema in 2018, Ivan has also become an educator in the craft, offering courses online, in person, and through his YouTube channel, Micro Budget Madness. He published his debut book "Improv for Indie Filmmakers" in 2021. Currently Ivan lives in Croatia and continues to produce original improvised f…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 1 titles

Behind the camera

Choir Girl poster
3.0

CHOIR GIRL is a gritty drama about a lonely photographer, Eugene, who becomes obsessed with an underage prostitute, Josephine, in his rundown neighbourhood. She has escaped a worn-torn country only to be trapped in the illegal sex trade by corruption and a powerful underworld criminal named Daddy. Yet for Eugene, Josephine represents a symbol of purity in the darkness - when he takes her photograph there is something captivating about her and she quickly becomes his muse.

Choir Girl

2019

No artwork available
NR

Loneliness, expectation, and the desire to be loved.

Dusk

2013

Zina poster
NR

Zina and Tony share a night they won't forget; full of seduction, near misses, bloody noses, and wild surprises.

Zina

2016

Zina poster
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Zina and Tony share a night they won't forget; full of seduction, near misses, bloody noses, and wild surprises.

Zina

2016

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A widow grieves for her husband. Her sister tries to console her. Too little, too late. Truths are revealed, love is suffering, but at least family is forever ...

Eternal

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No artwork available
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A widow grieves for her husband. Her sister tries to console her. Too little, too late. Truths are revealed, love is suffering, but at least family is forever ...

Eternal

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El Western poster
NR

Love on the wrong end of the law.

El Western

2013

El Western poster
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Love on the wrong end of the law.

El Western

2013

El Western poster
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Love on the wrong end of the law.

El Western

2013

ForeFans poster
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A naive international student struggling to make ends meet decides to try webcam modeling to support herself financially. But within the lurid online world where every body is treated as a commodity, what will the ultimate price be?

ForeFans

2026

ForeFans poster
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A naive international student struggling to make ends meet decides to try webcam modeling to support herself financially. But within the lurid online world where every body is treated as a commodity, what will the ultimate price be?

ForeFans

2026

ForeFans poster
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A naive international student struggling to make ends meet decides to try webcam modeling to support herself financially. But within the lurid online world where every body is treated as a commodity, what will the ultimate price be?

ForeFans

2026

Reckoning poster
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Some secrets can't be buried.

Reckoning

2012

Reckoning poster
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Some secrets can't be buried.

Reckoning

2012

After the Act poster
NR

A devastating meditation on love and intimacy, unfolding over 24 hours as three friends face the quiet wreckage of their choices.

After the Act

2025

After the Act poster
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A devastating meditation on love and intimacy, unfolding over 24 hours as three friends face the quiet wreckage of their choices.

After the Act

2025

After the Act poster
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A devastating meditation on love and intimacy, unfolding over 24 hours as three friends face the quiet wreckage of their choices.

After the Act

2025

No artwork available
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Danger comes from the darkest hour.

Midnight

2016

No artwork available
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Danger comes from the darkest hour.

Midnight

2016

No artwork available
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Aurora is setting up a special anniversary dinner for her husband. She goes about her day, alone, reminiscing about her lover, but a truth hangs over her like a dark cloud.

Anniversary

2015

Dace Decklan: Private Eye poster
NR

Dace Decklan: Private Eye is a comedy about Dace Decklan, a private eye who is about to relive his past when virginal Magdalena (Stevie Hall) enters his office asking to him to look for her father, Rados, who Dace left in the jungles of Rambosia many years before. Given a firm warning not to go after the tail by his secretary/lover Pollyanna, Dace finds that Magdalena is not alone in wanting to Rados. It seems he has invented pills that are more potent than Viagra and his ex-scientific partner wants for himself and a mysterious sex-hating religious group called the Americans, run by Satan-hating nutcase Reverend Callahan. In Rambosia, they find that Rados is not the man he once was, obsessed with getting an everlasting erection. Dace and Stevie are confronted by the local drug cartel run by Dominguez, who has a plan to use the pills to start a plan of world domination involving the Japanese and whales. Can Dace save the day and reunite father and daughter?

Dace Decklan: Private Eye

2011

Dace Decklan: Private Eye poster
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Dace Decklan: Private Eye is a comedy about Dace Decklan, a private eye who is about to relive his past when virginal Magdalena (Stevie Hall) enters his office asking to him to look for her father, Rados, who Dace left in the jungles of Rambosia many years before. Given a firm warning not to go after the tail by his secretary/lover Pollyanna, Dace finds that Magdalena is not alone in wanting to Rados. It seems he has invented pills that are more potent than Viagra and his ex-scientific partner wants for himself and a mysterious sex-hating religious group called the Americans, run by Satan-hating nutcase Reverend Callahan. In Rambosia, they find that Rados is not the man he once was, obsessed with getting an everlasting erection. Dace and Stevie are confronted by the local drug cartel run by Dominguez, who has a plan to use the pills to start a plan of world domination involving the Japanese and whales. Can Dace save the day and reunite father and daughter?

Dace Decklan: Private Eye

2011

Dace Decklan: Private Eye poster
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Dace Decklan: Private Eye is a comedy about Dace Decklan, a private eye who is about to relive his past when virginal Magdalena (Stevie Hall) enters his office asking to him to look for her father, Rados, who Dace left in the jungles of Rambosia many years before. Given a firm warning not to go after the tail by his secretary/lover Pollyanna, Dace finds that Magdalena is not alone in wanting to Rados. It seems he has invented pills that are more potent than Viagra and his ex-scientific partner wants for himself and a mysterious sex-hating religious group called the Americans, run by Satan-hating nutcase Reverend Callahan. In Rambosia, they find that Rados is not the man he once was, obsessed with getting an everlasting erection. Dace and Stevie are confronted by the local drug cartel run by Dominguez, who has a plan to use the pills to start a plan of world domination involving the Japanese and whales. Can Dace save the day and reunite father and daughter?

Dace Decklan: Private Eye

2011

Mirror of Filth poster
2.0

Chris is caught in a downward spiral, lost in a world of filth and porn, unable to connect. But his habits, his loneliness and denial, is slowly destroying him, one woman at a time.

Mirror of Filth

2014

Mirror of Filth poster
2.0

Chris is caught in a downward spiral, lost in a world of filth and porn, unable to connect. But his habits, his loneliness and denial, is slowly destroying him, one woman at a time.

Mirror of Filth

2014

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After breaking-up with his Girlfriend, a distraught Brother turns to his Sister to fill the void of love and lust. She will not. Desperate and depraved, Brother goes too far, and Sister has no choice but to end the madness.

Sibling

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After breaking-up with his Girlfriend, a distraught Brother turns to his Sister to fill the void of love and lust. She will not. Desperate and depraved, Brother goes too far, and Sister has no choice but to end the madness.

Sibling

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No artwork available
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After breaking-up with his Girlfriend, a distraught Brother turns to his Sister to fill the void of love and lust. She will not. Desperate and depraved, Brother goes too far, and Sister has no choice but to end the madness.

Sibling

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In Corpore poster
3.2

Four couples deal with love and lust, commitment and infidelity, and the pressures of relationship expectations. Filmed in Melbourne, Berlin, Malta, and New York, In Corpore tackles the consequences faced when one chooses to either suppress or give into the inner desires of body and soul.

In Corpore

2020

In Corpore poster
3.2

Four couples deal with love and lust, commitment and infidelity, and the pressures of relationship expectations. Filmed in Melbourne, Berlin, Malta, and New York, In Corpore tackles the consequences faced when one chooses to either suppress or give into the inner desires of body and soul.

In Corpore

2020

Cats of Malta poster
5.0

A documentary celebrating the island’s stray cats and the volunteers who show the large population unconditional love and support.

Cats of Malta

2022

Life Improvised: Volume One poster
NR

Small human stories, entirely improvised, capturing the moments that make up relationships. Loneliness, a first date, betrayal, change, and more.

Life Improvised: Volume One

2022

Life Improvised: Volume One poster
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Small human stories, entirely improvised, capturing the moments that make up relationships. Loneliness, a first date, betrayal, change, and more.

Life Improvised: Volume One

2022

Life Improvised: Volume One poster
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Small human stories, entirely improvised, capturing the moments that make up relationships. Loneliness, a first date, betrayal, change, and more.

Life Improvised: Volume One

2022

No Woman Is an Island poster
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An insightful sit down chat with five of Malta's influential female trailblazers, some of whom are artists, all of whom are paving the way for change.

No Woman Is an Island

2024

Friends, Foes & Fireworks poster
3.2

Fiona has recently received a life-changing health diagnosis, so in an attempt to curb feelings of isolation and anxiety she hosts a NYE reunion with her closest female friends. However, not everything goes to plan. Old tensions surface, past rivalries are reignited, truths are told and sparks fly, forcing each of the women to reflect on and re-evaluate past decisions going forward into the new year.

Friends, Foes & Fireworks

2017

Friends, Foes & Fireworks poster
3.2

Fiona has recently received a life-changing health diagnosis, so in an attempt to curb feelings of isolation and anxiety she hosts a NYE reunion with her closest female friends. However, not everything goes to plan. Old tensions surface, past rivalries are reignited, truths are told and sparks fly, forcing each of the women to reflect on and re-evaluate past decisions going forward into the new year.

Friends, Foes & Fireworks

2017

Daughter poster
3.0

Daughter explores the way women are viewed in society by following three female characters on a Friday night out in St Kilda, who's lives become entwined and affected by an act of violence this fateful night. The award winning short film and an awareness project was inspired by the tragic murder cases of Jill Meagher in Brunswick and St Kilda's own Tracy Connelly, whose occupation as a sex worker was highlighted in the media, leading to her murder and personal story being sadly overshadowed. The main themes explored in the film are violence against women and victim blaming, shown through the eyes of three female leads, lead by Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) as Scarlett, Aisha Tara (Heartbreak High) as Jemma and Carolyn Rey as Alethea.

Daughter

2016

Machination poster
2.3

An anxious woman struggles to cope in isolation as a pandemic sweeps the world, forcing her to confront the monsters in her head.

Machination

2022

Machination poster
2.3

An anxious woman struggles to cope in isolation as a pandemic sweeps the world, forcing her to confront the monsters in her head.

Machination

2022