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'''Don Featherstone''' is an Australian filmmaker. His work includes documentaries about significant figures in Australian arts and culture, including authors [[David Malouf]] and [[Tim Winton]], artist [[Brett Whiteley]] and dancer [[Robert Helpmann]]. Featherstone's works address social and historical issues such as beach culture, ''The Beach'', gangs, ''The One Percenters'' about the [[Milperra Massacre]],<ref name=austlit/> and war, [[Kokoda (documentary)|Kokoda]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/kokoda-film-a-trail-of-bad-memories-20100421-stys.html |title=Kokoda film a trail of bad memories |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=21 April 2010 |first=Terry |last=Smyth |access-date=19 December 2021}}</ref>
Featherstone's satirical [[mockumentary]] for television, ''[[BabaKiueria]]'', has been the subject of academic comparative analysis of imperial historicity and postcolonial social progress.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Weaver-Hightower |first1=Rebecca |date=2006 |title=Revisiting the Vanquished: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial Encounters |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40339575 |journal=Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=
In 1985 Featherstone
Featherstone's works have been screened and broadcast internationally, in many countries.<ref name=austlit/>
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Selected works include:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/bush-critics-don-featherstone |title=Don Featherstone |publisher=National Film and Sound Archive |work=Australian Screen |access-date=19 December 2021}}</ref><ref name=austlit>{{cite web |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A60605 |title=Don Featherstone |work=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=University of Queensland |date=17 June 2017 |access-date=19 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/c/featherstone-productions-pty-ltd/3058/ |work=The Screen Guide |title=Featherstone Productions Pty Ltd |publisher=Screen Australia |access-date=19 December 2021}}</ref>
* ''Food for Thought'' (1977); writer, director
* ''William Cobbett's Rural Rides'' (1979); director;
* ''The London Programme'' (1979-1982); director
▲* ''Erte'' (1980); director;
* ''The South Bank Show'' (1982-1985); director
* ''John Le Carre'' (1983); director
* ''Msistlav Rostropovich'' (1983); director
* ''Barry Flanagan'' (1983); director
* ''David Hockney'' (1983); director
* ''Ivo Pogorelich'' (1984); director
* ''Robert Lowell'' (1984); director
* ''Alan Bleasedale'' (1985); director
* ''The Science of Winning'' (1985); director
* ''Arthur Boyd: Figures in the Landscape'' (1985);
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* ''Heal or Hoax'' (1986); director
* ''Aussies'' (1987); director
* ''Beautiful Lies: A Film About Peter Carey'' (1986); producer,
* ''Dreamtime, Machinetime'' 1987; director, producer, writer Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''Slow Boat from Surabaya'' (1988); director
* ''Creative Spirits'' (1989){{efn|2 episodes}}; producer, director Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley'' (1989) producer, director
* ''Astonish Me, Graeme Murphy'' (1989); producer
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* ''God or Politics', Tom Keneally'' (1989); producer, director
* ''The Peoples' Diva', Joan Carden'' (1989); producer
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* ''Billy Tea and Goulash'' (1991); director
* ''The Daylight Moon: A Portrait of the Poet Les Murray'' (1991); producer, writer, director Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''Fast Forward Exposed'' (1992); director
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* ''
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* ''Make It New: Robert Klippel'' (1992); director, co-producer
* ''Right Said Fred: Fred Schepisi - Film Director'' (1993); director
* ''Creative Spirits II'' (1993){{efn|1 episode}}; director, producer Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''
* ''Bon Bons and Roses for Dorothy: Dorothy Hewett'' 1993; producer
* ''Creative Spirits III'' (1995); producer{{efn|series}}, director{{efn|1 episode}}▼
* ''Dead Quick: Peter Corris'' 1993; producer
▲* ''Lowering the Tone: 45 Years of Robyn Archer'' (1994); director, interviewer; Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''Lighting Fires: Tim Storrier'' 1993; producer
▲* ''Creative Spirits III'' (1995); producer{{efn|series}}, director{{efn|1 episode}} Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''Tall Tales but True: David Williamson'' (1994); director, producer
* ''Smart's Labyrinth: Jeffrey Smart'' (1994); producer
▲* ''Wrestling an Angel'' (1995); director
▲* ''Life Force'' (1995); writer, director
* ''Dance of Nature: The Music of Ross Edwards'' (1995); producer, director, writer▼
* ''The Black Swan: Meryl Tankard Choreographer'' (1995); producer
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▲* ''Dance of Nature: The Music of Ross Edwards'' (1995); producer, director, writer Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''Young Australian of the Year'' (1996); writer, director Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer'' (1997); writer, director; Linfield, Sydney, AU; Film Australia RM Associates, ABC Television
* ''The Edge of the World: Tim Winton: Writer'' (1998); producer; Linfield, Sydney, AU; Film Australia RM Associates, ABC Television
* ''Art Zone'' (1998); writer, director
▲* ''I Witness'' (1998); writer, director
* ''The Maitland Wonder: Les Darcy'' (1998); director
* ''American Journeys'' (1999); writer, director
* ''I Witness: The Art of George Gittoes'' (1999); director, writer, producer Featherstone Productions; Sydney
* ''It Happened on Holiday'' (2000); writer, director
* ''The Beach'' (2000); coproducer,
* ''Sydney Revealed'' (2001); writer, director
* ''Australia Revealed'' (2002); writer, director
* ''The One Percenters'' (2005); writer, director
* ''Kokoda'' (2009); writer, director
* ''Singapore 1942'' (2010); writer, director
* ''The War That Changed Us'' (2014); writer, co-director
* ''100 Days to Victory'' (2018); writer, co-director
==Awards and recognition==
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! Status
! Ref
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| 2019
| Best Sound in a documentary
| AACTA Awards
| ''100 Days to Victory''
| {{won}}
|-▼
| 2019
| Best Docu Drama
| ATOM Awards
| ''100 Days to Victory''
| {{nom}}
|-▼
| 2019
| Best History Documentary
| Canadian Screen Awards
| ''100 Days to Victory''
| {{nom}}
|-▼
| 2014
| Best Docu Drama
| ATOM Awards
| ''The War That Changed Us''
| {{won}}
|-▼
| 2014
| Most Outstanding Factual Program
| Logie Awards
| ''The War That Changed Us''
| {{nom}}
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| 2012
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| 1998
| Best Arts Documentary
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| Festival International du Film sur l'Art - Montreal
| ''An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer''
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| 1997
| Best Arts Documentary
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| Banff International TV Festival
| ''An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer''
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| 1997
| Best Arts Documentary
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| Festival International du Film sur l'Art - Montreal
| ''Ross Edwards''
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| 1996
| Best Arts Documentary
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| Banff International TV Festival
| ''Ross Edwards''
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| 1996
| Best Film
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| Grand Prix Video Dance Paris
| ''Meryl Tankard''
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| 1993
|Best Arts Documentary
| Festival International du Film sur l'Art-Montreal
| ''The Daylight moon: A portrait of the poet Les Murray''
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| ''Difficult Pleasure: A portrait of Brett Whiteley''
| {{won}}
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| 1990
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| 1989
| Best Arts Documentary
| Banff Television Festival
| ''Tom Keneally''
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| 1983
| Best Arts Documentary
| BAFTA Award
| ''David Hockney''
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