Rod Hardy

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About Rod Hardy

Award-winning Director Rod Hardy's trademark "visual sense of storytelling" was forged with instinct, experience and passion. He directed the feature DECEMBER BOYS w/ Harry Potter's DANIEL RADCLIFFE for Warner Bros, winning the Giffoni Film Festival Award 2008. Television credits include: LIBRARIANS TNT, POWERS Sony PLAYSTATION, BURN NOTICE, COVERT AFFAIRS and IN PLAIN SIGHT USA Network. THE MENTALIST CBS/Warners. SUPERNATURAL, on CW. DOLLHOUSE, MENTAL, shot in Bogota, X-FILES all for FOX. SAVING GRACE w/ HOLLY HUNTER and LEVERAGE for TNT. PERSONS UNKNOWN shot in Mexico City, NBC. MAKE IT OR BREAK IT for ABC Family. TOUCHING EVIL producers Bruce Willis/ Arnold Rifkin and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, SyFy Channel winner of the prestigeous PEABODY award. His first feature film, THIRST, won Best Picture, 1980 Asian Film Festival. Honing his directing and producing skills in Australia, Hardy moved to Los Angeles where he launched his American. He garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Movies of the Week and Mini-Series. Marjorie Rawlins’ classic, THE YEARLING, CBS, BUFFALO GIRLS, CBS w/ ANJELICA HUSTON, MELANIE GRIFFITH, SAM ELLIOT, and REBA McINTYRE, the series received 11 Emmy, one SAG and two Golden Globe nominations. Hardy’s directorial range runs the gamut of contemporary drama and sci-fi, from portraits of historic moments to the re-telling of adventure classic ROBINSON CRUSOE w/ PIERCE BROSNAN; Jules Verne’s Leagues UNDER THE SEA w/ MICHAEL CAINE and PATRICK DEMPSEY. TWO FOR TEXAS, TNT, w/ KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, TOM SKERRITT winning the Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award. Re-teaming with Skerritt on the acclaimed cable remake of HIGH NOON, TBS. Developing features IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME a romantic comedy set in Greece, PHOTOS IN THE ATTIC A WW1 French Australian co production, DRY UP & BLOW AWAY scheduled to shoot New York fall 2018. DARK FRONTIER a 10 part adventure mini-series w/partners LIGHTSTREAM Pictures / DE PASSÉ ENT