Pat Fiske

Pat Fiske is an experienced director, producer and sound recordist and a prominent member of Australia's independent filmmaking community.

Her two-part series about private prisons in Australia and the United States, Business Behind Bars, won a 2001 Walkley Award.

In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious Stanley Hawes Award for her outstanding contribution to the documentary industry.

Some of the films she has directed and produced are the award-winning documentaries Doc (1995), a portrait of Herbert Vere Evatt; For All the World to See (1992), a portrait of Professor Fred Hollows; and Rocking the Foundations (1986), a history of the NSW Builders Labourers Federation.

Her production River of No Return, written and directed by Darlene Johnson, was selected for screening at the 2008 Sydney Film Festival.

Fiske was co-head of the documentary department at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School for many years.

Filmography

	LEAPING OFF THE EDGE » Melbourne's Women's Circus, originally established in 1991 as a vehicle for survivors of sexual assault, today thrives on the collective talents of an even broader range of women...
	ROCKING THE FOUNDATIONS » DIGITALLY RESTORED by the National Film and Sound Archive as part of the NFSA Restores program. "Documentary? Just call it cinema...
	FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE » A portrait of Professor Fred Hollows whose eye health programs in Eritrea, Nepal and outback Australia offer a model for Third World countries where millions suffer from curable blindness...
	FOLLOWING THE FENCELINE » A documentary about breast cancer and an innovative approach to public awareness taken by 14 remarkable women. In mid-1996 a group of 14 women rode motorbikes around Australia to promote breast cancer awareness...
	BUSINESS BEHIND BARS » Business Behind Bars Part One: USA Part One is about business behind bars in the United States. The film's main focus is on the jailers and the glitzy commercial arena of the prison industry...
	SELLING SICKNESS » SELLING SICKNESS looks at the growing global controversy around SSRI antidepressants and follows British psychiatrist, Dr David Healy, patients and their families as they rock the scientific establishment with accusations that aggressive drug marketing is blurring the boundaries between medical conditions and ordinary life with potentially deadly consequences...
	RIVER OF NO RETURN » From early childhood Frances Daingangan, a 45-year-old Yolngu woman, dreamed of being a movie star - a dream that came true when Rolf de Heer cast her in the film TEN CANOES...