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Ivan Malekin

Ivan Malekin

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Biography

Ivan Malekin is a prolific producer, director and editor. Founder of Nexus Production Group, he has been making films since 2007, his work spanning from Australia to Europe to America. Select works include improvised feature films like "Friends, Foes & Fireworks" (2018), "In Corpore" (2020), and "Machination" (2022), and the PBS documentary “Cats of Malta” (2023). Since embracing improvisational cinema in 2018, Ivan has also become an educator in the craft, offering courses online, in person, and through his YouTube channel, Micro Budget Madness. He published his debut book "Improv for Indie Filmmakers" in 2021. Currently Ivan lives in Croatia and continues to produce original improvised films through Nexus Production Group.

Known For

ForeFans
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A naive international student struggling to make ends meet decides to try webcam modeling to support herself financially. But within the lurid online world where every body is treated as a commodity, what will the ultimate price be?

ForeFans

2026
Choir Girl
3.0

CHOIR GIRL is a gritty drama about a lonely photographer, Eugene, who becomes obsessed with an underage prostitute, Josephine, in his rundown neighbourhood. She has escaped a worn-torn country only to be trapped in the illegal sex trade by corruption and a powerful underworld criminal named Daddy. Yet for Eugene, Josephine represents a symbol of purity in the darkness - when he takes her photograph there is something captivating about her and she quickly becomes his muse.

Choir Girl

2019
Daughter
3.0

Daughter explores the way women are viewed in society by following three female characters on a Friday night out in St Kilda, who's lives become entwined and affected by an act of violence this fateful night. The award winning short film and an awareness project was inspired by the tragic murder cases of Jill Meagher in Brunswick and St Kilda's own Tracy Connelly, whose occupation as a sex worker was highlighted in the media, leading to her murder and personal story being sadly overshadowed. The main themes explored in the film are violence against women and victim blaming, shown through the eyes of three female leads, lead by Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) as Scarlett, Aisha Tara (Heartbreak High) as Jemma and Carolyn Rey as Alethea.

Daughter

2016
In Corpore
3.2

Four couples deal with love and lust, commitment and infidelity, and the pressures of relationship expectations. Filmed in Melbourne, Berlin, Malta, and New York, In Corpore tackles the consequences faced when one chooses to either suppress or give into the inner desires of body and soul.

In Corpore

2020
After the Act
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A devastating meditation on love and intimacy, unfolding over 24 hours as three friends face the quiet wreckage of their choices.

After the Act

2025
El Western
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Love on the wrong end of the law.

El Western

2013
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Micro-budget filmmakers

Micro-Budget Marauders: Micro-Budget Mentality

2021
Friends, Foes & Fireworks
1.0

Fiona has recently received a life-changing health diagnosis, so in an attempt to curb feelings of isolation and anxiety she hosts a NYE reunion with her closest female friends. However, not everything goes to plan. Old tensions surface, past rivalries are reignited, truths are told and sparks fly, forcing each of the women to reflect on and re-evaluate past decisions going forward into the new year.

Friends, Foes & Fireworks

2017
Cats of Malta
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A documentary celebrating the island’s stray cats and the volunteers who show the large population unconditional love and support.

Cats of Malta

2022
No Woman Is an Island
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An insightful sit down chat with five of Malta's influential female trailblazers, some of whom are artists, all of whom are paving the way for change.

No Woman Is an Island

2024
Machination
2.3

An anxious woman struggles to cope in isolation as a pandemic sweeps the world, forcing her to confront the monsters in her head.

Machination

2022
Dace Decklan: Private Eye
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Dace Decklan: Private Eye is a comedy about Dace Decklan, a private eye who is about to relive his past when virginal Magdalena (Stevie Hall) enters his office asking to him to look for her father, Rados, who Dace left in the jungles of Rambosia many years before. Given a firm warning not to go after the tail by his secretary/lover Pollyanna, Dace finds that Magdalena is not alone in wanting to Rados. It seems he has invented pills that are more potent than Viagra and his ex-scientific partner wants for himself and a mysterious sex-hating religious group called the Americans, run by Satan-hating nutcase Reverend Callahan. In Rambosia, they find that Rados is not the man he once was, obsessed with getting an everlasting erection. Dace and Stevie are confronted by the local drug cartel run by Dominguez, who has a plan to use the pills to start a plan of world domination involving the Japanese and whales. Can Dace save the day and reunite father and daughter?

Dace Decklan: Private Eye

2011
Mirror of Filth
2.0

Chris is caught in a downward spiral, lost in a world of filth and porn, unable to connect. But his habits, his loneliness and denial, is slowly destroying him, one woman at a time.

Mirror of Filth

2014
Half
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When worlds collide where does a young boy stand? Set in 1940s Victoria, Half is about identity, love, and finding where we belong.

Half

2016
How Deep is the Ocean
4.2

A mysterious young drifter arrives in Melbourne and takes up residence in a boarding house. Over the next year, she struggles to adapt to the new place, while negotiating her relationships with the people around her.

How Deep is the Ocean

2023
Life Improvised: Volume One
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Small human stories, entirely improvised, capturing the moments that make up relationships. Loneliness, a first date, betrayal, change, and more.

Life Improvised: Volume One

2022
Zina
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Zina and Tony share a night they won't forget; full of seduction, near misses, bloody noses, and wild surprises.

Zina

2016
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A widow grieves for her husband. Her sister tries to console her. Too little, too late. Truths are revealed, love is suffering, but at least family is forever ...

Eternal

Stargaze
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Take a moment to relax and connect with the universe through stargazing. Let the vastness of the cosmos inspire a sense of connection and perspective, reminding you of the beauty and magic that surrounds us all.

Stargaze

2023
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After breaking-up with his Girlfriend, a distraught Brother turns to his Sister to fill the void of love and lust. She will not. Desperate and depraved, Brother goes too far, and Sister has no choice but to end the madness.

Sibling