Don Featherstone (filmmaker)
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,[1] and war, Kokoda.[2]
Featherstones's satirical mockumentary for televison, BabaKiueria, has been the subject of academic camparative analysis of imperial historicity and postcolonial social progress.[3] It has also been included in cultural exchanges, for example in "Southern Exposure" between the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Museum Of Contemporary Art, San Diego.[4]
In 1985 Featherstone cofounded Featherstone Productions with Judy Featherstone.[1]
Featherstone's works have been screened and broadcast internationally, in many contries.[1]
Other filmmakers utilise Featherstone's work, for example James Bogle's Whiteley.[5]
Filmography
Selected works include:[6][1][7]
- Food for Thought (1977); writer, director
- The London Programme (1979-1982); director
- Erte (1980); director;
- The South Bank Show (1982-1985); director
- The Science of Winning (1985); director
- Arthur Boyd: Figures in the Landscape (1985); writer, director, producer
- Babakiuerea (1986); producer, director
- Heal or Hoax (1986); director
- Aussies (1987); director
- Beautiful Lies: A Film About Peter Carey (1986); producer, cowriter, director; Featherstone Productions; Sydney
- Dreamtime, Machinetime 1987; director, producer, writer
- Slow Boat from Surabaya (1988); director
- Difficult Pleasure: A Portrait of Brett Whiteley (1989) producer, director
- Astonish Me, Graeme Murphy (1989); producer
- Creative Spirits (1989)[a]; director
- Tales of Helpmann (1990); director
- Billy Tea and Goulash (1991); director
- The Daylight Moon: A Portrait of the Poet Les Murray (1991); producer, writer, director
- Fast Forward Exposed (1992); director
- Oondamooroo: Ernie Dingo (1992); director, producer
- Eric Rolls: Celebration of the Senses (1992); director, producer
- Masterpiece (1992); director; Featherstone Productions; Sydney
- Make It New: Robert Klippel (1992); director, producer
- Right Said Fred: Fred Schepisi - Film Director (1993); director; Featherstone Productions; South Melbourne
- Creative Spirits II (1993)[b]; director
- Tim Storrier, 'Lighting Fires' 1993; producer
- Creative Spirits III (1995); producer[c], director[d]
- Lowering the Tone: 45 Years of Robyn Archer (1994); director, interviewer; Featherstone Productions; Sydney
- Tall Tales but True: David Williamson (1994); director, producer
- Smart's Labyrinth (1994); producer
- Wrestling an Angel (1995); director
- Life Force (1995); writer, director
- Wrestling The Angel: Blanche D'Alpuget (1995); director, writer, producer
- Dance of Nature: The Music of Ross Edwards (1995); producer, director, writer
- The Black Swan: Meryl Tankard Choreographer (1995); producer
- Young Australian of the Year (1996); writer, director
- An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer (1997); writer, director; 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
- It Happened on Holiday (2000); writer, director
- The Beach (2000); coproducer, cowriter, director
- Sydney Revealed (2001); writer, director
- Australia Revealed (2002); writer, director
- The One Percenters (2005); writer, director
Awards and recognition
Awards and recognition include:
Year | Kategorie | Competition | Work | Status | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2012 | Best Documentary Series | AACTA Awards | Singapore 1942 | Nominated | [8] |
2012 | Golden Tripod | WA ACS awards | Singapore 1942 | Won | |
2012 | Best Direction | Asian Television Awards | Singapore 1942 | Nominated | |
2012 | Best Editing | Asian Television Awards | Singapore 1942 | Nominated | |
2011 | Best History Production | History Makers Awards New York | Kokoda | Nominated | |
2010 | Best Documentary Series | AFI Awards | Kokoda | Nominated | [9] |
2010 | Best Documentary Sound | AFI Awards | Kokoda - Episode 1: The Invasion | Nominated | [9] |
2010 | Best History Documentary Series | ATOM Awards | Kokoda | Nominated | |
2002 | Outstanding Achievement Award | IECF Hi-def Festival Tokyo | The Beach | Won | |
1998 | Best International Documentary | Hot Docs Festival in Toronto | An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer | Won | |
1998 | Best Arts Documentary | San Francisco Film & TV Festival | An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer | Won | |
1998 | Festival International du Film sur l'Art - Montreal | An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer | Finalist | ||
1998 | Best Original Score in a documentary | Australian Composers Guild | An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer | Won | |
1997 | Banff International TV Festival | An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer | Finalist | ||
1997 | Greater Union Dendy Awards | An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer | Finalist | ||
1997 | New York Film & TV Festival | An Imaginary Life: David Malouf: The Inner World of an Extraordinary Writer | Finalist | ||
1997 | Festival International du Film sur l'Art - Montreal | Ross Edwards | Finalist | ||
1996 | Banff International TV Festival | Ross Edwards | Finalist | ||
1996 | IMZ Dance Screen Festival | Meryl Tankard | Finalist | ||
1996 | Grand Prix Video Dance Paris | Meryl Tankard | Won | ||
1995 | Best film | Dance on Camera Film Festival, New York | Meryl Tankard | Won | |
1994 | Best documentary | AFI Awards | Lowering the Tone: 45 Years of Robyn Archer | Nominated | |
1993 | Festival International du Film sur l'Art-Montreal | The Daylight moon: A portrait of the poet Les Murray | Won | ||
1992 | Awgies Award | The Daylight moon: A portrait of the poet Les Murray | Nominated | ||
1991 | Gold Plaque Award | Chicago International Film Festival | The Daylight moon: A portrait of the poet Les Murray | Won | [10] |
1991 | New York Film & TV Festival | The Daylight moon: A portrait of the poet Les Murray | Finalist | ||
1991 | United Nations Media Peace Prize | Billy Tea and Goulash | Nominated | ||
1990 | International Emmy | New York | Robert Helpmann | Nominated | |
1990 | Gold Hugo Award | Chicago Film Festival | Difficult Pleasure: A portrait of Brett Whiteley | Won | [11] |
1990 | Best Arts documentary | Banff Television Festival | Difficult Pleasure: A portrait of Brett Whiteley | Won | [11] |
1990 | Best documentary | AFI Awards | Difficult Pleasure: A portrait of Brett Whiteley | Nominated | [12] |
1990 | Best documentary | AFI Awards | Graeme Murphy | Nominated | [12] |
1989 | Banff Television Festival | Tom Keneally | Selected | ||
1988 | Best Documentary | ATOM Awards | Peter Carey | Won | |
1986 | United Nations Media Peace Prize | BabaKuieria | Won | [13] | |
1996 | New York Film & TV Festival | Arthur Boyd | Finalist | ||
1985 | Special Jury Prize | San Francisco Film Festival | Ed McBain | Won | |
1985 | Silver Award | New York Film & TV Festival | Ed McBain | Won | |
1983 | BAFTA Award | David Hockney | Nominated | ||
1983 | Silver Award | New York Film & TV Festival | John LeCarré | Won | |
1982 | Silver Award | New York Film & TV Festival | King Cone | Won |
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d "Don Featherstone". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. University of Queensland. 17 June 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ Smyth, Terry (21 April 2010). "Kokoda film a trail of bad memories". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca (2006). "Revisiting the Vanquished: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial Encounters". Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 6 (2): 84–102. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ McDonald, John (10 May 2008). "All their eggs in the one basket". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ Coslovich, Gabriella (1 May 2017). "Brett Whiteley documentary traces the tumultuous life of art's 'hand grenade'". The SYdney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "Don Featherstone". Australian Screen. National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ "Featherstone Productions Pty Ltd". The Screen Guide. Screen Australia. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ "2nd AACTA Awards". AACTA Winners & Nominees. Australian Film Institute. 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ a b "AFI Awards 2010". AACTA Winners & Nominees. Australian Film Institute. 2010. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ "The Daylight moon: a film about the poet Les Murray". Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Difficult Pleasure: a portrait of Brett Whiteley". WorldCat. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ a b {cite web |url=https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/range/1990-1999/year/1990/ |title=AFI Awards 1990 |work=AACTA Winners & Nominees |date=1990 |publisher=Australian Film Institute |access-date=27 December 2021}}
- ^ Matthews, Kate. "Babakiueria". Australian Screen - Short Films. National Film and SoundArchive. Retrieved 19 December 2021.