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Australian native, Adrian Carr, is a multi-award-winning director and film editor best known for editing The Man from Snowy River starring Kirk Douglas, Tom Selleck’s western, Quigley Down Under, the WWI epic The Lighthorsemen and D.A.R.Y.L. for Paramount.
Adrian directed the features Now and Forever, starring Cheryl Ladd, The Sword of Bushido, a martial arts actioner set in Thailand, Mind Games a hustle-style indie as well as episodes of Fox’s iconic series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers including the pilot, followed by episodes of Warner Bros’ The New Adventures of Robin Hood filmed in Lithuania.
He directed the live-action series of ground-breaking Tex Murphy adventure games: The Pandora Directive starring Barry Corbin/Kevin McCarthy, it won Game of the Year 1996 and was ranked #9 in AdventureGamers Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games for over a decade, Overseer with Michael York and Richard Norton, followed by Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure that won the 2014 Reader’s Choice award for Adventure Game of the Year.
Adrian directed John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Christian Slater, Anne Archer and Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Warner and Lacey Chabert, for their voice roles in a 3-D Imax animation project entitled Quantum Quest aka 2004: A Light Knight’s Odyssey.
Three of Adrian’s unsettling dramatic shorts won awards; Permanent Stays was awarded an ACS Gold Award for Best Drama in Australia, Blood Makes Noise picked up Best Suspense Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and Bonds of Brotherhood won the Urban Action Showcase Short Film Award 2 Min Warning Contest. During the Covid lockdown Adrian wrote, directed and edited a disturbing, dramatic short film, When The Chips Are Down starring Larry Thomas (Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi). The film was accepted into the Pasadena International Film Festival.
He recently directed and edited SOLUS, a 45 minute sci-fi Pilot that won - Best Male Director • Best Film of the Month • Best Visual Effects • Best Music Score • Best Sound Design in the 2021 LA Shorts Festival.
Not only is Adrian an accomplished director and editor, he is also a talented stills photographer with a decade as the official photographer for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles. His Naked Cigar Calendar won a Bronze Award for the Most Original Calendar in the National Calendar Awards.
He is currently developing several feature films: A Dolphin in our Lake a fantasy drama starring Noah Wyle, and Without a Hitch, a Hitchcockian adventure/romance set in the South of France and Los Angeles written by Steven E. deSouza (Die Hard) also stars Noah Wyle, and “PeeksKill”, a supernatural satanic horror. Things I Can’t Tell You a crime thriller about Two women from opposite sides of the tracks who join forces to bring down an international childpornography ring. And Stoker’s Boat an epic WWI adventure about the exploits of the AE2 submarine. As well as 6-part Limited Series Do It Scared, a faith-centric movie based on the true story Rob Galea, the last person you’d expect to become a rock star or world famous priest, but he became both.
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