Chris Kennedy (filmmaker)

Christopher Kennedy was born on 1 December 1948.^[1]

He initially trained and qualified as a dentist and later studied at^[2] the Swinburne Film and Television School in Melbourne. There, he was dubbed one of a "Gang of Four", along with Paul Goldman, John Hillcoat, and Evan English, owing to their pranks. They once set fire to a lecturer's office, and they were responsible for the "kidnapping a frozen chicken" from lecturer Peter Tammer.^[3]

Film

Kennedy made his first film Glass, a low budget thriller, in 1989 and followed it up with This Won't Hurt a Bit, in 1993.

During the 1990s, he made Doing Time for Patsy Cline and the following decade, A Man's Gotta Do.^[4]

He wrote the novel Made in Australia in 2011.

Kennedy owned two companies, Oilrag Productions and Oillamp Books.^[5]

Kennedy died from a heart attack on 27 August 2013.^[1]

Kennedy was a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee and an Australian Writer's Guild Award winner.^[6]

• 1998: Australian Writers Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• 1998: Australian Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography, for Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• 1998: San Diego International Film Festival Award for Best Original Script, for Doing Time for Patsy Cline
• 2008: Montreal Film Festival's Golden Zenith for Best Film from Oceania, for A Man's Gotta Do

• Glass (1989)
• This Won't Hurt a Bit (1993)
• Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
• A Man's Gotta Do (2003)