Anna Broinowski is a Walkley Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author.[1][2][3][4]
Her feature documentaries are Forbidden Lie$, about Chicago hoax author Norma Khouri,[5] cited as one of the best 100 Australian films of the new millennium,[6]Aim High in Creation! (2013), about North Korea's propaganda filmmakers,[7][8] and Pauline Hanson: Please Explain (2016), about Australian Senator Pauline Hanson.[9][10]
Broinowski's broadcast documentaries include Helen's War, about anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott's 2003 campaign against the US-led invasion of Iraq,[11][12]Heartbeat: the Miracle Inside You, about the latest advances in cardiothoracic surgery and treatment for ABC Catalyst,[13]Hell Bento!!, about the Japanese cultural underground,[14] and Sexing the Label (1996), about Sydney counter-cultures in the mid 1990s.[15]
In 2016, Broinowski won her third AFI/AACTA, for directing Pauline Hanson: Please Explain.[16] Her work has also received an Al Jazeera Golden Award,[17] a NSW Premier's Literary Award,[18] a Dendy,[19] the Rome Film Fest Cult Prize,[20] an Atom Award,[21] the St Petersburg International Media Forum Press Award for Best Film,[22] and the Writers Guild of America (East and West) Best Nonfiction Screenplay award.[23]
Broinowski has written two non-fiction books, Please Explain: the rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson (Penguin 2017),[24] and the Nib Waverley Alex Buzo shortlist prize-winning The Director is the Commander (Penguin 2015)[25][26] which was released in the USA by Arcade Publishing as Aim High in Creation! in 2016.[27][28][29]
In 2016 Broinowski received a PhD from Macquarie University for her thesis on the history of deceptive techniques in documentary filmmaking, inspired by the relationship between filmmaker and subject in Forbidden Lie$.[30]
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^"'Aim High in Creation!' Is the Best North Korean Propaganda Film You'll Ever See — ★★★★". Nonfics.com. 11 July 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^Latimore, Jack (1 August 2016). "Pauline Hanson: Please Explain! – a hard-hitting exposé of history repeated". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
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^"Catalyst: Heartbeat: The Miracle Inside You - ABC TV Science". Abc.net.au. 12 September 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^""Hell Bento": Una historia de sadomasoquismo, motociclistas y drag queens del Japón de 1995". Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
^"Sexing the Label". Sbs.com.au. 9 March 1997. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"First AACTA Award winners unveiled". If.com.au. 6 December 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"A view of forbidden territory - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au". Smh.com.au. 15 May 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
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^"Helen's War: Portrait of a Dissident". Artfilms.com.au. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"Jason Reitman's Juno takes Best Film prize in Rome". Screendaily.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"2014 IP AWARENESS ATOM AWARDS TERTIARY & INDUSTRY WINNERS ANNOUNCED!" (PDF). Atomawards.org. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"Roskino ST.PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL MEDIA FORUM PRIZES AWARDED". Roskino.org. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"From Beatles to Brecht: A Week of Pleasure at SilverDocs". Documentary.org. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson by Anna Broinowski". Penguin.com.au. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"The Director is the Commander". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"Waverley Library Award 2015 shortlist announced - Books+Publishing". Booksandpublishing.com.au. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: "Aim High in Creation! A One-of-a Kind Journey inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine" by Anna Broinowski – Brooklyn Bugle". Brooklynbugle.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"Aim High in Creation!". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"Aim High in Creation!". Arcadepub.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^"Tricks of the trade: an examination of the confluences between documentary and deception, inspired by the symbiotic relationship between filmmaker and con artist in Forbidden lie$". Researchonline.mq.edu.au. 26 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
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