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Ian Pringle (born January 17, 1953) is an Irish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He was eliminated in the repechages of both the K-2 1000 m and the K-4 1000 m events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Four years later in Moscow, Pringle was eliminated in the repechages of the K-1 1000 m event. At his third and final Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and the K-1 1000 m events.
Ian Pringle is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter.
Pringle wrote and directed the Australian feature film, Wrong World, which was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival in 1985.
His film The Prisoner of St. Petersburg was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
Other film work includes co-producing the controversial neo-Nazi drama Romper Stomper (starring Russell Crowe) and directing The Plains of Heaven. His last film was the French-Australian co-production Isabelle Eberhardt, starring Peter O'Toole and Mathilda May.
He continues to work as a script consultant, lecturer and writer.
He returned to writing and directing with his 2014 Australian feature film "The Legend Maker", which premiered at the 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival.
Ian Pringle may refer to: