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Film director

Occupation - Film director
Barrett, Walter Franklyn
Beresford, Bruce
Burstall, Tim
Caesar, David
Campion, Jane
Chauvel, Charles
Crombie, Donald
Disher, Norma
Duncan, Peter
Fiske, Pat
Gibson, Mel
Hall, Ken
Howarde, Kate
Johnson, Lawrence
Kuyululu, Ayten
Lang, Samantha
Longford, Raymond
Luhrmann, Baz
Miller, George
Moffatt, Tracey
Polson, John
Powell, Michael
Syron, Brian
Weir, Peter
Zubricki, Tom
Position - Film director of A Nation is Built
Hurley, Frank
1937
Position - Film director of Finished People
Do, Khoa
2003
Position - Film director of Gallipoli
Weir, Peter
1981
Position - Film director of It Isn't Done
Hall, Ken
1937
Position - Film director of Nice Coloured Girls
Moffatt, Tracey
1987
Position - Film director of On Our Selection
Hall, Ken
1932
Position - Film director of Patineur Grotesque
Sestier, Marius
1896
Position - Film director of Pensions for Veterans
Disher, Norma
1953
Position - Film director of Puberty Blues
Beresford, Bruce
1981
Position - Film director of The Breaking of the Drought
Barrett, Walter Franklyn
1920

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Film director

Barrett, Walter Franklyn

Film camerman and director.

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Beresford, Bruce

Film, theatre and opera director.

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Burstall, Tim

Film producer and director and writer who was instrumental in rebuilding the Australian film industry from the 1960s.

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Caesar, David

Writer and director of several films set in suburban Sydney.

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Campion, Jane

New Zealand-born film director who lives in Sydney.

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Chauvel, Charles

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Film director whose most famous films include Rats of Tobruk, Forty Thousand Horsemen and Jedda.

Crombie, Donald

Film and television director.

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Disher, Norma

Pioneering film maker who worked with trade unions from the late 1940s to document the the lives and working conditions of workers and their families.

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Duncan, Peter

Writer, actor and film director.

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Fiske, Pat

Director, producer and sound recordist within Australia's independent film making community.

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Gibson, Mel

American actor, director and producer who lived and studied in Sydney before pursuing his career in Hollywood.

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Hall, Ken

Film producer and director who sought to convey the unique Australian character on film with characters like Dad and Dave and the Rudds.

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Howarde, Kate

Actor, playwright, cinema pioneer and very successful theatrical entrepreneur who founded her own theatre company and toured extensively. She was best known for her play 'Possum Paddock' in 1919 and she was the first Australian woman to direct a feature film.

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Johnson, Lawrence

Film director who specialises in historical and cultural documentary films.

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Kuyululu, Ayten

Turkish born actor, writer and director.

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Lang, Samantha

Film director and screenwriter.

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Longford, Raymond

Australian film director, writer, producer and actor.

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Luhrmann, Baz

Film producer, screenwriter and director who has achieved international theatrical and film success .

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Miller, George

Film director and producer who initially qualified as a medical practitioner.

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Moffatt, Tracey

Aboriginal artist working in film, photography and video.

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Polson, John

Actor and film director who founded the Tropfest short film festival.

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Powell, Michael

British film director who directed two films in Sydney in the late 1960s.

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Syron, Brian

Aboriginal human rights advocate, teacher and director. He was the first Indigenous person to work as a director in the mainstream Australian theatre industry and was Australia's first Indigenous feature film director.

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Weir, Peter

Director who helped shape the Australian New Wave cinema before achieving international success and many box office hits.

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Zubricki, Tom

Film director.

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A Nation is Built

Film celebrating Australian achievements, made in 1938.

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Hurley, Frank

Photographer and adventurer who became a trailblazing documentary filmmaker.

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Finished People

Film made in 2003 by director Khoa Do about life on the streets in Cabramatta.

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Do, Khoa

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Vietnamese-born actor, writer and director who was Young Australian of the Year in 2005.

Gallipoli

Film portraying the lives of several country boys and their loss of innocence in the Gallipoli campaign of World war I.

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It Isn't Done

Comedy film of 1937 about a simple Australian farmer who inherits a castle and title in England.

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Nice Coloured Girls

Short film which positions Aboriginal women as naïve and nice but which shows these are merely roles played by the women.

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On Our Selection

Collection of stories by Steele Rudd, later made into a film.

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Patineur Grotesque

Thought to be Australia's earliest surviving film and the first comedy film, it shows a man rollerskating in Prince Alfred Park. It was first screened in France in 1897 and not screened in Australian until 2010.

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Sestier, Marius

Chemist and photographer who visited Australia as a representative of Lumière Brothers, and made the first moving pictures filmed in Sydney in 1896.

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Pensions for Veterans

Film depicting the hardships of workers and highlights some of the health and safety concerns raised in a 1945 report on the conditions of waterside workers and the need for adequate pensions.

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Puberty Blues

Book and film based on teenagers growing up in the surfing culture of the Sutherland Shire. The book was made into a film in 1981.

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The Breaking of the Drought

1920 film by Franklyn Barrett contrasting the hardships of rural drought with the excitements of Sydney life.

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