Pip Karmel

Writer | Editor | Director

Pip Karmel’s career spans the disciplines of film editing, writing and directing.

As a screenwriter, she has written on all three seasons of the Blackfella Films/ABC drama Total Control, winning the AWGIE Award for Best Television Series or Mini Series for Ep 3 of Series 1 and nominated for Ep 2 of Series 2. Pip was recently nominated for Ep 5 of Series 3. In 2024, she wrote two episodes for the Beyond Entertainment/Muse Entertainment drama The Family Next Door for the ABC based on Sally Hepworth’s novel of the same name. The show is set to air in 2025.

She has written an episode of the Goalpost Pictures/SBS Drama New Gold Mountain which won the 2021 AWGIE Award for Best Limited Series. Pip is also Associate Producer, Co-Creator and Head Writer on Bad Behaviour, a 4x1 hr drama based on the memoir by Rebecca Starford. It was produced by Amanda Higgs for Matchbox Pictures/Stan and was released in 2023.

Pip was nominated for both an Academy Award and BAFTA for her work as film editor on Shine, directed by Scott Hicks and starring Geoffrey Rush, for which she won an AFI Award.

She went on to write and direct Me Myself I, starring Rachel Griffiths. The film screened at Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and was nominated for multiple AFI and Film Critics Circle Awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Direction.

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