Anna Broinowski Explained

Anna Broinowski is a Walkley Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Her feature documentaries are Forbidden Lie$, about Chicago hoax author Norma Khouri,^[5] cited as one of the best 100 Australian films of the new millennium,^[6] Aim High in Creation! (2013), about North Korea's propaganda filmmakers,^{[7] [8]} and Pauline Hanson: Please Explain (2016), about Australian Senator Pauline Hanson.^{[9] [10]}

Broinowski's broadcast documentaries include Helen's War, about anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott's 2003 campaign against the US-led invasion of Iraq,^{[11] [12]} Heartbeat: the Miracle Inside You, about the latest advances in cardiothoracic surgery and treatment for ABC Catalyst,^[13] Hell Bento!!, about the Japanese cultural underground,^[14] and Sexing the Label (1996), about Sydney counter-cultures in the mid 1990s.^[15]

In 2016, Broinowski won her third AFI/AACTA, for directing Pauline Hanson: Please Explain.^[16] Her work has also received an Al Jazeera Golden Award,^[17] a NSW Premier's Literary Award,^[18] a Dendy,^[19] the Rome Film Fest Cult Prize,^[20] an Atom Award,^[21] the St Petersburg International Media Forum Press Award for Best Film,^[22] and the Writers Guild of America (East and West) Best Nonfiction Screenplay award.^[23]

Broinowski has written two non-fiction books, Please Explain: the rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson (Penguin 2017),^[24] and the Nib Waverley Alex Buzo shortlist prize-winning The Director is the Commander (Penguin 2015)^{[25] [26]} which was released in the USA by Arcade Publishing as Aim High in Creation! in 2016.^{[27] [28] [29]}

In 2016 Broinowski received a PhD from Macquarie University for her thesis on the history of deceptive techniques in documentary filmmaking, inspired by the relationship between filmmaker and subject in Forbidden Lie$.^[30]

Notes and References

1. News: 2009 Walkley Award winners. 26 November 2009. 26 December 2017. The Sydney Morning Herald.
2. Web site: Canberra Writers Festival: something for every appetite. Karen. Hardy. 24 August 2017. Therural.com.au. 26 December 2017.
3. Web site: The most famous villains in North Korea. News.com.au. 26 December 2017.
4. Web site: How to make the perfect propaganda film - CNN Video. Edition.cnn.com. 26 December 2017.
5. Web site: Review: 'Forbidden Lie$'. 10 April 2009. Los Angeles Times. 26 December 2017. LA Times.
6. Web site: The 100 Best Australian Films Of The New Millennium - FilmInk. filmink.com.au. 26 December 2017.
7. Web site: Propaganda masterclass: can Kim Jong-il beat coal seam gas?. Michael. Safi. 10 April 2014. 26 December 2017. Theguardian.com.
8. Web site: 'Aim High in Creation!' Is the Best North Korean Propaganda Film You'll Ever See — ★★★★. 11 July 2014. Nonfics.com. 26 December 2017.
9. Web site: Pauline Hanson: Please Explain! – a hard-hitting exposé of history repeated. Jack. Latimore. 1 August 2016. 26 December 2017. Theguardian.com.
10. Web site: 14 Great Films That Never Made It To The Movies In 2016 (And Where You Can Watch Them Now). 22 December 2016. Junkee.com. 26 December 2017.
11. Web site: Helen help us - Film - www.smh.com.au. Smh.com.au. 4 June 2004 . 26 December 2017.
12. Web site: Screen Australia - Former AFC - News Archive - Winners At The Sydney Film Festival: audience Award And The Dendys. Australian Film. Commission. afcarchive.screenaustralia.gov.au. 26 December 2017.
13. Web site: Catalyst: Heartbeat: The Miracle Inside You - ABC TV Science. Abc.net.au. 12 September 2017 . 26 December 2017.
14. Web site: "Hell Bento": Una historia de sadomasoquismo, motociclistas y drag queens del Japón de 1995 . 2017-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171226185936/https://ismorbo.com/hell-bento-una-historia-de-sadomasoquismo-motociclistas-y-drag-queens/# . 2017-12-26 . dead .
15. Web site: Sexing the Label. Sbs.com.au. 9 March 1997 . 26 December 2017.
16. Web site: First AACTA Award winners unveiled. 6 December 2016. If.com.au. 26 December 2017.
17. Web site: A view of forbidden territory - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au. Smh.com.au. 15 May 2008 . 26 December 2017.
18. Web site: Winners. Shortlists.New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards to honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers. The Awards are announced during the Sydney Writers' Festival. Literaryawards.com.au. 26 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180313225214/http://www.literaryawards.com.au/nswpremiers.html. 13 March 2018. dead.
19. Web site: Helen's War: Portrait of a Dissident. Artfilms.com.au. 26 December 2017.
20. Web site: Jason Reitman's Juno takes Best Film prize in Rome. Screendaily.com. 26 December 2017.
21. Web site: 2014 IP AWARENESS ATOM AWARDS TERTIARY & INDUSTRY WINNERS ANNOUNCED!. Atomawards.org. 26 December 2017.
22. Web site: Roskino ST.PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL MEDIA FORUM PRIZES AWARDED. Roskino.org. 26 December 2017.
23. Web site: From Beatles to Brecht: A Week of Pleasure at SilverDocs. Documentary.org. 22 July 2008 . 26 December 2017.
24. Web site: Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson by Anna Broinowski. Penguin.com.au. 26 December 2017.
25. Web site: The Director is the Commander. Goodreads.com. 26 December 2017.
26. Web site: Waverley Library Award 2015 shortlist announced - Books+Publishing. Booksandpublishing.com.au. 26 December 2017.
27. Web site: Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: "Aim High in Creation! A One-of-a Kind Journey inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine" by Anna Broinowski – Brooklyn Bugle. Brooklynbugle.com. 26 December 2017.
28. Web site: Aim High in Creation!. Goodreads.com. 26 December 2017.
29. Web site: Aim High in Creation!. Arcadepub.com. 26 December 2017.
30. Tricks of the trade: an examination of the confluences between documentary and deception, inspired by the symbiotic relationship between filmmaker and con artist in Forbidden lie$. 26 December 2017. Researchonline.mq.edu.au. 26 December 2017.