Mr Dennis Tupicoff

Animator / Film Maker

Dennis Tupicoff (class of 1967) is a film maker, writer, director, animator and producer.  After graduating from Queensland University, Dennis worked as an archivist and teacher before making his first film in 1976.  He has made many award-winning films spanning genres including  fictional, documentary, animated, live-action, comedy and drama, often with inventive combinations.

Dennis has also been a full-time lecturer at the VCA School of Film and Television in Melbourne and has taught and conducted workshops in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

Retrospectives of his work have screened at festivals in:

Dennis once told a reporter in an interview that the funniest thing that had happened to him was as a young man when an elderly lady in the street said to him, "Young man, if you fell over you'd be halfway home".  Dennis is 2.1m tall.