Amanda King

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Amanda "Mandy" King is an Australian producer and director of documentaries.

Life

King produces together with Fabio Cavadini and has directed documentaries since 1987. They deal with topics related to environmental protection, indigenous rights and their art in Australia and the neighboring regions. Cavadini and King owns the film production company Frontyard Films .

King attended art school in Newcastle . From 1973 to 1977 she was an art education teacher. At the school, film projects began on site with the help of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

As a student, she had first contacts with activists who campaigned for East Timor , which was occupied by Indonesia in 1975 . When Australian journalists were murdered by Indonesian soldiers in the run-up to the open invasion , there were many protests in Australia; also in Newcastle, where there was a strong center of left political forces such as trade unions, workers' associations and the Communist Party of Australia . King took part in the demonstrations against the Australian government, which gave Indonesia a free hand in East Timor.

King gave up teaching and moved to Sydney . In 1985, the well-known filmmaker Martha Ansara was supposed to make a documentary about the East Timorese independence activist and later Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta , but could not do it due to deadlines. James Kesteven and Amanda King took on the role of directors. From 1985 the documentary The Shadow Over East Timor was created , which thematized the joint responsibility of the United States , Great Britain and Australia in the Indonesian aggression. At the suggestion of SBS , the original 38-minute television version was extended to one hour. Together with Cavadini, who was also filming documentaries on the Southeast Asian country at the time, the team traveled to East Timor in 1989 for research and filming that had to take place half-secretly. The film was completed in 1990 and aired on SBS just months before the Santa Cruz massacre on November 12, 1991. Films about crises and conflicts in Bougainville ( An Evergreen Island , 2000), Papua New Guinea ( Color Change , 2011) and others about East Timor followed ( Starting From Zero , 2002; Time to Draw the Line , 2017). A Thousand Different Angles from 2010 tells the story of Berlin-born Australian sculptor Inge King .

In 2015 King received the Medal des Ordem de Timor-Leste from East Timor's President Taur Matan Ruak .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1990: The Shadow Over East Timor
  • 2000: On Evergreen Island
  • 2002: Starting From Zero
  • 2010: A Thousand Different Angles
  • 2011: Color Change
  • 2017: Time to Draw the Line (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Gaele Sobott: Time to Draw the Line: An Interview with Amanda King and Fabio Cavadini , accessed November 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ Frontyard film
  3. ↑ A Thousand Different Angles , accessed November 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 43/2015 de 6 de Maio , accessed on September 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME King, Amanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Mandy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian producer and director of documentaries
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century