David Bradbury
David Bradbury (born May 7, 1951 in Sydney , Australia ) is an Australian filmmaker .
Life
David Bradbury studied Politics and History at the Australian National University and graduated with a bachelor's degree . He began his career as a radio journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He quickly began to make a name for himself as a freelance journalist and reported, among other things, on the Carnation Revolution in Portugal as well as the end of the military junta in Greece and the Islamic Revolution in Iran .
As an investigative journalist, he sneaked into the border region of Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea , where he took pictures with a Super 8 camera and interviewed a member of the Organizasi Papua Merdeka for the first time . 1980 saw his first film Frontline , a portrait of the British cameraman Neil Davis. For this he received his first Oscar nomination.
In the same year, Public Enemy Number One also appeared on the journalist Wilfred Burchett , who was the first Western reporter to enter the Hiroshima area . On the recommendation of Graham Greene , he shot his next film in Nicaragua . The film Nicaragua: No Pasaran is primarily about Tomas Borge , the leader of the Sandinistas .
For Chile: Hasta Cuando? he received his second Oscar nomination in 1987. In 1987, South of the Border , a film about the grass roots movement in Central America, was released, followed by State of Shock , a film about the Aboriginal Alwyn Peters , who killed his girlfriend while drunk. The film shows the man's alienation from his culture and the machinations of the company that took the land away from his family and left him in poverty.
Polska followed in 1990, offering a cross-section of Polish history from Auschwitz to the collapse of the Soviet Union based on the memories of the Polish journalist Beata Ligmann from Gdansk . In 1992 Bradbury worked with Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett . The two made the film Shoalwater: Up for Grabs about the machinations of the sandmine companies that threatened the wilderness near Cooktown . Just three weeks after it was broadcast, Prime Minister Paul Keating placed the area under special protection.
In 1993 Nazi Supergrass was released . For the documentary, Bradbury researched the Australian neo-Nazi terror group Australian Nationalist Movement . In 1994, The Last Whale followed through efforts by Japan to remove the protection zone for whales in Antarctica. Olivia Newton-John assisted with the documentation. The Battle for Byron dealt with the alternate scene in Byron Bay Shire . In 1997 he made Loggerheads , the film dealt with tree occupiers. With the film Jabiluka he managed to close a uranium mine in the Kakadu National Park .
2000 appeared Wamsley's War , which is about the controversial environmentalist John Wamsley . In 2003 the film Fond Memories of Cuba followed , which was financed by the socialist and multimillionaire Jim Mitsos . Already Bradbury Cuba for him , but the pictures he brought with him weren't what Mitsos had hoped for.
In 2005, Blowin in the Wind appeared , reporting on plans by the US military to fortify weapons with uranium . For Raul the Terrible , a documentary about the Argentine activist Raul Castells , he won the AFI Award (today: AACTA Award).
Filmography
- 1979: Front Line
- 1981: Public Enemy Number One
- 1982: Midnight Oil: Armistice Day
- 1984: Nicaragua: No parasan
- 1986: Chile: Hasta Cuando?
- 1993: Nazi Supergrass
- 2002: Fond Memories of Cuba
- 2006: Raul the Terrible
- 2007: A Hard Rain
- 2009: My Asian Heart
- 2010: Going Vertical: The Shortboard Revolution
- 2010: When the Dust Settles
- 2011: On Borrowed Time
- 2015: The Crater: A True Vietnam War Story
- 2016: War on Trial
Web links
- David Bradbury in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bradbury, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney , Australia |