Don Featherstone

Don Featherstone has produced, written and directed over fifty highly regarded full length documentaries across a range of genres.

Featherstone's works explore music and arts, social and historical issues such as beach culture - 'The Beach', gangs – 'The One Percenters' about the Milperra Massacre, and war – 'Kokoda'.

His films include; 'The War That Changed Us', 'Singapore 1942', '100 Days to Victory', 'An Imaginary Life' (David Malouf), 'The Edge of the World' (Tim Winton), 'Difficult Pleasure (Brett Whiteley) and the mockumentary 'Babakuieria' which has been the subject of academic comparative analysis of imperial historicity and postcolonial social progress. 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.

His films have been screened worldwide and he has won many major international awards including; Best Documentary Hot Docs, a Banff Rockie, a Chicago Gold Hugo, a Chicago Gold Plaque, Best Arts Documentary San Francisco, Special Jury Prize San Francisco, a U.N. Media Peace Prize and three New York Silver Awards. Don has been nominated for scores of awards including a BAFTA award, an International Emmy, six AFI/AACTA awards, and a Logie Award.

Don, who is a graduate of the Swinburne Film & TV School, has also made films on staff for the BBC's documentaries department, London Weekend Television's current affairs department and the prestigious arts series 'The South Bank Show'.

Filmography

	FIGURES IN THE LANDSCAPE » A film about the internationally acclaimed Australian painter, Arthur Boyd. Arguably Australia's finest painter. Arthur Boyd was in the vanguard of the post war renaissance in Australian Art...
	BEACH, THE » A host of leading creative talents, including writers Les Murray and Tim Winton, artist Ken Done, choreographer Graeme Murphy, and composer Peter Sculthorpe contribute to this examination of the beach as an expression of the Australian psyche...