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]

Featherstone's satirical mockumentary for television, BabaKiueria, has been the subject of academic comparative 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 countries.[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)[lower-alpha 1]; 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)[lower-alpha 2]; director
• Tim Storrier, 'Lighting Fires' 1993; producer
• Creative Spirits III (1995); producer[lower-alpha 3], director[lower-alpha 4]
• 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

Film awards and recognition include:

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

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