DAVID BRADBURY

Biography

David Bradbury is one of Australia’s best-known and most successful documentary filmmakers whose work takes us into the heart of struggles for environmental, social and political justice around the world. His films have been shown on all the major Australian commercial and public broadcast networks as well as overseas. Bradbury has won countless international film festival prizes and was the winner of five AFI awards and two Academy Award nominations. He began his career as a radio journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1972. Bradbury worked as a freelance journalist covering the Spring Revolution in Portugal in 1974 as well as the overthrow of the Greek military junta in Athens that same year and the final days of the Shah of Iran.

Filmography

FRONTLINE

David Bradbury / 65´ / 1979 / Australia / Betacam SP

An account of the Vietnam war as seen through the camera of Australian journalist Neil Davis. His footage of the conflict was seen nightly by millions. Vietnam was a television war, a war said to have been lost in the lounge rooms of middle America. and not on the battlefield.

Dirección / Direction: David Bradbury
Producción / Production:  David Bradbury
Guión / Script:  David Bradbury

FOND MEMORIES OF CUBA

David Bradbury / 77´ / 2002 / Australia / Betacam SP

A film that expresses the passionate vitality of the Cuban people and their willingness to embrace life and “get on with it” despite the challenges facing the island nation.

Dirección / Direction: David Bradbury
Producción / Production:  David Bradbury
Guión / Script:  David Bradbury
Edición / Editing: Tim Litchfield

MY ASIAN HEART

David Bradbury / 70´ / 2008 / Australia / Betacam SP

You might not know Philip Blenkinsop’s name but chances are you have seen his frontline photographs. His work has appeared on the front cover of Time Magazine and his documentary art has been exhibited in countless galleries around the world. Philip’s creative stomping ground is South East Asia, where he divides his time documenting current civilian uprisings and lesser-known wars.

In 1989 Philip left his comfortable life in Australia to pursue a photojournalism career in China. To his own surprise, he finds himself still there 20 years later, now trying to create a workspace in an impressively chaotic studio. This is where Oscar-nominated filmmaker David Bradbury catches up with him, and it is one of the rare times that we see Philip confined to the indoors. Unlike many of his journalist peers, Philip refuses to be corralled at a Hilton buffet and escorted to political hotspots. The majority of Philip’s time is spent dodging teargas and rubber bullets as he ekes toward the epicentre of conflict and experiences the edges of human emotion.

Dirección / Direction: David Bradbury
Producción / Production:  David Bradbury
Guión / Script:  David Bradbury

NICARAGUA: NO PASARÁN

David Bradbury / 74´ / 1983 / Australia / Betacam SP

In 1978 the revolutionary Sandinista movement came to government after 43 years of organised resistance and the death of 50,000 Nicaraguans.

Dirección / Direction: David Bradbury
Producción / Production:  David Bradbury
Guión / Script:  David BradburyEdición / Editing: Stewart Young
Fotografía / Cinematography: Geoffrey Simpson