Amanda Brotchie

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Amanda Brotchie
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Known forRiot Women
Doctor Who
Renegade Nell
Gentleman Jack
The Letdown
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Girlboss
Lowdown
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Amanda Brotchie (20 February 1964[1] – 19 December 2025) was an Australian television director. She was known for her direction of Riot Women (2025), Doctor Who (2024), Renegade Nell (2024), Gentleman Jack (2022), The Letdown (2019), Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), Mr Black (2019), Girlboss (2017) and Lowdown (2010–2012). She was also a writer, producer, actor and linguist.[2]

Career

Brotchie co-created the multi-award-winning series Lowdown (ABC, BBC Four), through the company High Wire Films, which she founded with producer Nicole Minchin and her husband, the writer, producer and actor Adam Zwar.[3][4][5]

Other television shows Brotchie directed include Riot Women (2025), Doctor Who (BBC One, Disney+), Renegade Nell (Disney+), Gentleman Jack (BBC One, HBO), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Showcase, Amazon), Girlboss (Netflix), A Place to Call Home (Showcase, Acorn TV), The Letdown Series 2 (ABC,[6] Netflix), Squinters (ABC) and Mr Black (Network 10), created by Adam Zwar, which she wrote on and set up.[7]

Brotchie's theatre credits include The Inner Sanctum, which she directed, and Headlock, which she wrote and directed, and which was nominated for a Green Room Award for writing.[8]

Brotchie directed the multi-award-winning short film Break & Enter (1999). Her awards included an AFI award for Best Short Film and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Short Film. Break & Enter screened at numerous international festivals and, rare for a short film, had a cinema release in Australia through Palace Cinemas supporting the film Happy, Texas.[citation needed]

Brotchie had a PhD in linguistics from the University of Melbourne.[9] In researching her PhD, she lived in a remote village on an island in Vanuatu, filming and documenting the local language and culture.[10][11]

Death

Brotchie died from cancer on 19 December 2025 aged 61.[12][13]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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