Daryl Dellora

Daryl Dellora is currently writing and directing The Life, Times and Travels of the Extraordinary Vice-Admiral William Bligh an interactive broadband documentary site for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Australian Film Commission.

His film A Mirror to the People — The Governor-General was screened on ABC-TV in 2000 and awarded an ATOM award for best Educational Value 2001.

Daryl is an experienced and award-winning film-maker who directs and writes all his projects. His film The Edge of the Possible about the design and construction of the Sydney Opera House screened on ABC-TV in Australia on 20 October 1998. It contain an exclusive interview with the Danish architect Jorn Utzon.

The Highest Court (1998) represents a documenting of the work of the High Court of Australia, no filmmakers had ever before been given such access to that Court. The Highest Court screened on ABC-TV Inside Stories on 26 May 1998.

Conspiracy (1995) about the 1978 Sydney Hilton Bombing raised questions in federal parliament and prompted an editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald. It was awarded a Certificate of Commendation in the Australian Human Rights Awards and was nominated Best Documentary Script in the AWGIES and Best Documentary in the ATOM Awards.

Koories and Cops (1993) screened in London and Washington as part of a special touring exhibition of Melbourne films in September 1994.

His documentary film Mr Neal is Entitled to be an Agitator was awarded the 1991 Australian Human Rights Award for Documentary film and was nominated for an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Documentary 1992. In June 1992 Mr Neal was awarded a Special Commendation in the Melbourne Film Festival International Short Film Competition, competing with over 500 films entered from all over the world.

Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One (1985) and Against the Innocent (1988) were his first two major projects and together with Cleanskin (1986) they represent a very significant folio of drama product in combination with documentary elements and techniques. Against the Innocent was a fully dramatised feature length experimental film which received critical acclaim both in Australia and overseas.

Mr Neal tells the tragic and compelling story of the rise and fall of Lionel Murphy, Australia's most controversial political and legal figure of the post-war years.

Conspiracy (1995) was the culmination of two years work, researching, writing and finally production. The film has screened on ABC-TV in Australia on True Stories and on TV New Zealand.