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Adam Elliot Adam Elliot i(A121043 works by) (a.k.a. Adam Benjamin Elliot)
Born: Established: 1972 Berwick, Narre Warren - Berwick area, Melbourne Outer South East, Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon Memoir of a Snail Adam Elliot , ( dir. Adam Elliot ) Australia : Arenamedia Pty Ltd Snails Pace Film , 2023 26244389 2023 single work film/TV
1 2 y separately published work icon A - Z of Unfortunate Dogs Adam Elliot , Adam Elliot (illustrator), Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2010 Z1743744 2010 single work picture book
1 My Sunday: Adam Elliot Adam Elliot , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 20 December 2009; (p. 4)
1 I Am What I Am : Adam Elliot Adam Elliot , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 1 November 2009; (p. 8)
1 23 form y separately published work icon Mary and Max Adam Elliot , ( dir. Adam Elliot ) 2009 Fitzroy : Melodrama Pictures , 2009 Z1561833 2009 single work film/TV

'A story spanning twenty years and two continents, Mary and Max tells of a pen-friendship between two very different people. Mary Dinkle, a chubby and lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne decides on a whim to to pick a person at random from the New York phone book and sends off a letter asking about life on the other side of the world. It is received by Max Horovitz, an obese 44 year old Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. A friendship is born as the pair exchange letters over the next 20 years. Offering each other support, advice and the chance to see life through another set of eyes.

'Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. As with Adam Elliot's previous feature film, the Academy Award-winning Harvey Krumpet(2003), Mary and Max is innocent but not naive, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious difference, agrophobia and much much more.'

Source: Mary and Max website, http://www.maryandmax.com/
Sighted: 30/03/2009

1 7 form y separately published work icon Harvie Krumpet Adam Elliot , ( dir. Adam Elliot ) Australia : Melodrama Pictures , 2003 Z1575863 2003 single work film/TV humour fantasy

A claymation film telling the story of Harvie Krumpet, an ordinary man seemingly cursed with perpetual bad luck. From being born with Tourette's Syndrome, to getting struck by lightning, to having a testicle removed, to developing Alzheimers disease: Harvie's troubles seem unending! Yet Harvie learns many lessons in life and enjoys its many fruits. He finds love, freedom, nudity, and ultimately the true meaning of what it is to be human.

(Source: National Film and Sound Archive record.)

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