Robin Anderson (director)

Robin Anderson (born 1950 in Perth , † March 8, 2002 in Sydney ) was an Australian director of documentary films .

Anderson graduated from the University of Western Australia with a degree in economics and then moved to New York City to study sociology at Columbia University . She studied there under Herbert J. Gans and completed her studies after two years with a master’s degree . Anderson then returned to Australia and began working for television there. While working for the television station ABC , she met the documentary filmmaker Bob Connolly , whom she soon married. The marriage resulted in two daughters. Over the next 20 years, she and her husband made five extensively researched, critically acclaimed documentaries in Papua New Guinea and Australia.

Her first documentary First Contact (1983) about meeting the indigenous peoples in an isolated region of Papua New Guinea with the Australian Leahy brothers was nominated for the Academy Awards in the category Best Documentary Feature in 1984.

Anderson died of cancer in 2002.

Filmography

• 1983: First Contact
• 1989: Joe Leahy's Neighbors
• 1992: Black Harvest
• 1996: Rats in the Ranks
• 2001: Face the Music

literature

• John Phillips: Robin Anderson, 51, Creator Of Documentaries on Australia . The New York Times, March 23, 2002
• Robin Hughes: Robin Anderson - A Tribute . Sense of Cinema, May 2002
• Ian Aitken: Encyclopedia of the Documentary . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-20620-8 , pp. 60-61
• Brian McFarlane (Ed.), Geoff Mayer (Ed.), Ina Bertrand (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Australian Film . Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780195537970 , p. 13

Web links

• Robin Anderson at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Richard Philipps: Leading Australian documentary filmmaker dies on wsws.org on March 18, 2002
• A tribute to Robin Anderson - Obituary on the Australian television station (video, English, 0:57 min.)
• http://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/robin-anderson.html