Anna Broinowski
Australian filmmaker & academic
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Anna Broinowski is a Walkley Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author.[1][2][3][4]
Macquarie University (PhD)
Academic
Anna Broinowski | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) Tokyo, Japan |
| Education | University of Sydney (BA) Macquarie University (PhD) |
| Occupations | Film director Academic |
| Years active | 1995-present |
| Employer | University of Sydney |
Her feature documentaries are Forbidden Lie$, about Chicago hoax author Norma Khouri,[5] cited as one of the best 100 Australian films of the new millennium,[6] Aim High in Creation! (2013), about North Korea's propaganda filmmakers,[7][8] and Pauline Hanson: Please Explain (2016), about Australian Senator Pauline Hanson.[9][10]
Broinowski's broadcast documentaries include Helen's War: Portrait of a Dissident, about anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott's 2003 campaign against the US-led invasion of Iraq,[11][12] Heartbeat: the Miracle Inside You, about the latest advances in cardiothoracic surgery and treatment for ABC Catalyst,[13] Hell Bento!!, about the Japanese cultural underground,[14] and Sexing the Label (1996), about Sydney counter-cultures in the mid 1990s.[15]
Early life
Broinowski was born during 1969 in Tokyo, Japan.[16][17] She is the daughter of Australian diplomat Richard Broinowski and academic Alison Broinowski.
Growing up Broinowski attended schools in Myanmar, Iran, the Philippines, Canberra and Japan.[16]
Career
In 2016, Broinowski won her third AFI/AACTA, for directing Pauline Hanson: Please Explain.[18] Her work has also received an Al Jazeera Golden Award,[19] a NSW Premier's Literary Award,[20] a Dendy,[21] the Rome Film Fest Cult Prize,[22] an Atom Award,[23] the St Petersburg International Media Forum Press Award for Best Film,[24] and the Writers Guild of America (East and West) Best Nonfiction Screenplay award.[25]
Broinowski has written two non-fiction books, Please Explain: the rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson (Penguin 2017),[26] and the Nib Waverley Alex Buzo shortlist prize-winning The Director is the Commander (Penguin 2015)[27][28] which was released in the USA by Arcade Publishing as Aim High in Creation! in 2016.[29][30][31]
In 2016 Broinowski received a PhD from Macquarie University for her thesis on the history of deceptive techniques in documentary filmmaking, inspired by the relationship between filmmaker and subject in Forbidden Lie$.[32]
Filmography
Feature films
- Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground (1995)[33]
- Sexing the Label - Love and Gender in a Queer World (1997)
- Romancing the Chakra (1998)
- Helen's War - Portrait of a Dissident (2004)
- Forbidden Lie$ (2007)
- Aim High in Creation (2013)
- Pauline Hanson: Please Explain! (2016)
- Uluru and the Magician (2021)
Short films
- Tsunamai (1999)
- Burqa (2003)
- Fish and Chips (2011)
- Kim Jong Il's Cinema Experience (2013) - Interactive Documentary
Bibliography
Books
- The Director is the Commander (2015) or Aim High in Creation! in the United States
- Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson (2017)
- Datsun Angel (2024)[34]