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Australian Documentary Film and Television

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  • 2024Twilight Time
  • 2022Senses of Cinema
  • 2021Peace Pilgrims
  • 2018Film for a Purpose
  • 2018All This You Saw
  • 2017Ricardo De Ungria in China
  • 2016Meeting Minds: a writers’ residency in China
  • 2015Trespass (9:16)
  • 2013Love & Fury: Judith Wright & ‘Nugget’ Coombs
  • 2009Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens In Australia
  • 2006The Archive Project
  • 2008An Unstoppable Force – Betty Churcher with John Olsen
  • 2008Hidden Treasures inside the National Library of Australia
  • 2007Moving History – 60 Years of Film Australia
  • 2006Hidden Treasures inside the National Gallery of Australia
  • 2005The Art Of War
  • 1999River Of Dreams
  • 1997After Mabo
  • 1995What I Have Written
  • 1992One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin
  • 1989Moments Like These
  • 1988All That Is Solid
  • 1985Traps
  • 1981Film-Work
  • 1976Menace
  • 1972Nowhere Game

John Hughes’ documentary and drama has impact through broadcast, online access, gallery and cinema in Australia and overseas since the 1970s. Industry awards include –  Stanley Hawes Award (2006), Joan Long Award, achievement in film history (2006), Australian Writer’s Guild best broadcast documentary 2010, NSW Premier’s History Prize (audio-visual) 2007, Critics Circle best feature documentary 2006; festival juries (IDFA 2001, Pacific Meridian, Russia, 2004, FIFO 2011), publishing on Australian documentary (Arena Magazine, Cineaste, Senses of Cinema, Studies in Documentary Film, Studies in Australasian Cinema). (See ‘writing & presentations’)

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