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Australian film maker
David Bradbury
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Nationality
| Australian
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Education
| Degree in Political Science
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Alma mater
| Australian National University
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Occupation(s)
| Filmmaker, Journalist
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Years active
| 1972-present
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Notable work
| Front Line, Public Enemy Number One, Blowin' In The Wind, A Hard Rain
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Awards
| 2 Academy Award nominations, 5 Australian Film Industry awards, Various international film festival prizes
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David Bradbury
is an Australian film maker who began his career in 1972 as an
ABC
radio journalist
, and has since produced 21
documentary films
, including many that tackle difficult political issues and highlight the plight of the disadvantaged. Bradbury has won many international film festival prizes, received five
Australian Film Industry
awards, and two
Academy Award
nominations. He graduated from the
Australian National University
with a degree in political science.
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Front Line
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Bradbury's first film was
Front Line
, a portrait of Australian news cameraman
Neil Davis
in Vietnam. The film received an Academy Award nomination and also won first prize at the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, the Grierson award at the American Film Festival and was screened worldwide.
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Public Enemy Number One
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Another of Bradbury's films,
Public Enemy Number One
, followed the life of controversial Australian journalist
Wilfred Burchett
, the first western journalist into
Hiroshima
after the bomb was dropped. The film won the Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary, the Christopher Statuette, Best Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival, and an AFI award, but was never shown on Australian TV.
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Blowin' In The Wind
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Blowin' In The Wind
is about the joint military training facility at
Shoalwater Bay
near Rockhampton. This film follows on from
Shoalwater: Up for Grabs
which Bradbury worked on with then
Midnight Oil
lead singer
Peter Garrett
.
Blowin' In The Wind
looks at some of the health issues surrounding the Shoalwater Bay training facility and the effects of
depleted uranium
in theatres of war.
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A Hard Rain
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A Hard Rain
is Bradbury's 2007 documentary feature film that looks at the global nuclear industry from the mining of uranium through to
nuclear power
, to the
radioactive waste
and
nuclear weapons
. It examines the issue of whether Australia should go nuclear.
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Other films
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Bradbury's other films include:
- 1987:
South of the Border
- 1988:
State of Shock
- 1993:
Nazi Supergrass
- 1997:
Loggerheads
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- 1997:
Jabiluka
- 2007:
Survival School
- 2009:
My Asian Heart
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- 2012:
On Borrowed Time
- 2023
The Road to War
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