Background
Eddie White was born in Adelaide, South Australia.
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He graduated from the Flinders University Drama Centre where he majored in Drama Performance.
Career
The film was also shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Short Animated Film in 2010. Eddie"s fellow acting students include Xavier Samuel of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse fame, Melanie Vallejo and playwright Caleb Lewis White made his directorial debut in 2003, writing and directing his first animated music video The Bomb (Sixxx Legs) for Triple J unearthed band The Fuzz. He followed up in 2005 writing and co-directing his first short film, Fritz Gets Rich.
He created and directed the short series Errorism: a comedy of terrors an animation that centred on a hopeless terrorist in a Betty Boop style landscape.
In 2006 he wrote Carnivore Reflux which he co-directed with James Calvert. The film was a Tropfest finalist.
In 2007, he made his solo directorial debut on a short film called Sweet & Sour, a co-production with China"s Shanghai Animation Film Studio. In 2011, Eddie left The People"s Republic Of Animation who were moving into the video game and Short Form television series market, to further pursue filmmaking, including branching out into Live Action.
White is also the nephew of New York veteran actor/comedian Eddie Lawrence most famously known for his character The Old Philosopher.
Recent work Eddie White co-directed a short film called The Cat Piano with art director/animator Ari Gibson of The PRA.
Achievements
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White won an Australian Film Institute (American Film Institute) Award for Short Animation for The Cat Piano (2009). lieutenant was awarded the Dendy Award for Best Short Animation at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival, the Best Short Animation award at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2009 and won both the IF and American Film Institute awards for best short animation.
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