Academy and Emmy Award winner Eva Orner is an Australian filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her credits include Chasing Asylum, which she directed and produced. The film tackles Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers over the past 15 years, focusing on offshore detention. Eva has also written a book Chasing Asylum about the making of the film, published by Harper Collins. The film was shot in Australia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iran and Afghanistan. Other credits include Out Of Iraq, Co-Directed and Produced by Eva with LA based production company World of Wonder. The film follows a gay Iraqi couple over a decade as they try to stay alive and together and seek asylum in the US. Prior to Chasing Asylum Eva Directed and Produced the feature documentary The Network, set behind the scenes at the largest and most successful television network in one of the most unstable and dangerous places on earth, Afghanistan. Eva wrote, directed and produced The Network. Eva's US Producing credits include the feature documentaries Taxi To The Dark Side, Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S Thompson, The Human Behavior Experiments and Herbie Hancock's Possibilities. Her work has screened at festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca and Sydney, has been released theatrically and sold to VOD and television across the globe. In Australia Eva has won an AFI, Logie and Human Rights Award for her work.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Melbourne, Australia
- Producer and director
- 8 on MovieCove · 13 credits in all
What are Eva Orner's films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 7
Light 2 · Serious 0 · Dark 6
Grounded 7 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 4
Steady 2 · Shifting 6 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 6 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 6
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous5
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Eva Orner's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Eva Orner's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
13 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Surviving Ohio State(2025)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
Burning(2021)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Out of Iraq: A Love Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Chasing Asylum (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
The Network (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Gonzo(2008)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Taxi to the Dark Side(2007)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Blind Date(2007)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Josh Jarman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Strange Fits of Passion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Career shape
A full career of 11 titles from 2000 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Gonzo (2008)
Highest rated
Surviving Ohio State (2025)
Most popular right now
Gonzo (2008)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Won an Oscar in 2008, Best Documentary, Features.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Eva Orner's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 77th percentile, the median of all 8; across their 8 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 74th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 8 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the atmosphere 68/100 and the pacing 48/100 in their films, across 8 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Eva Orner work with?
People who share at least 2 of Eva Orner's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Cornel Wilczek shares the most, 4.
Directors
- Alex GibneyShared titles: Gonzo (2008), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006)See all 3 shared titles with Alex Gibney
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Cornel WilczekShared titles: Surviving Ohio State (2025), Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion (2024), Burning (2021), Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (2019)See all 4 shared titles with Cornel Wilczek
- Forrest BorieShared titles: Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion (2024), Burning (2021), Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Forrest Borie
- Nick HigginsShared titles: Surviving Ohio State (2025), Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Nick Higgins
- Thomas RouchShared titles: Surviving Ohio State (2025), Burning (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Thomas Rouch
Producers
- Jannat GargiShared titles: Gonzo (2008), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)See all 2 shared titles with Jannat Gargi
- Jason KliotShared titles: Gonzo (2008), Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Jason Kliot
- Joana VicenteShared titles: Gonzo (2008), Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Joana Vicente
- Mark CubanShared titles: Gonzo (2008), Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006)See all 2 shared titles with Mark Cuban
