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JØRN UTZON 1918-2008

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JØRN UTZON

A MASTER ARCHITECT

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We are an independent film production company specialising in Australian documentary films for television. Our films are available for sale to free-to-air, cable or satellite television throughout the world and as retail sales on VHS for home use.

Our most recent productions cover:
• the story of the design and construction of the SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE (including a lengthy and exclusive interview with the reclusive Danish architect of this masterpiece, Jorn Utzon);
• an unprecedented view of the OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA; and,
• a unique look at THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.

Retail sales on VHS are available through our agents Ronin Films
(• A MIRROR TO THE PEOPLE , • THE EDGE OF THE POSSIBLE, • THE HIGHEST COURT, • KOORIES AND COPS,
• MR NEAL IS ENTITLED TO BE AN AGITATOR), or directly through Film Art Doco (• CONSPIRACY,
AGAINST THE INNOCENT).

PLEASE NOTE ALL PURCHASES FROM THIS SITE ARE FOR PRIVATE HOME USE ONLY. INSTITUTIONS AND OTHERS MUST CONTACT US DIRECTLY TO PURCHASE OR SCREEN OUR PRODUCTIONS.

Please email for a rate sheet or any further information about our products for sale at daryl@netlink.com.au

Celebrity: Dominick Dunne: US DVD Release

New Australian documentary, Celebrity: Dominick Dunne has been released on DVD in the US and reviewed in a host of US daily papers and on-line, including the Boston Globe and the NY Daily News.

The film recently the played to packed houses at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Audience members were moved to tears by the film, which chronicles the life of Vanity Fair’s special correspondent, Dominick Dunne.

Speaking after that screening, Dunne, who saw the film with an audience for the first time at the Hamptons event, said, “It is tough to watch but I wouldn't change anything. I never thought they would capture my whole life the way that they have.”

Filmmakers Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley were thrilled with the response to the film, which sold out both sessions at the Festival and left disappointed film-goers begging for tickets outside. De Garis and Jolley since headed for the Sheffield International Documentary Festival where the film was hugely successful.

Hollywood outcast, best-selling author and chronicler of the rich and famous, Dominick Dunne is one of the world’s leading journalists and society commentators. The 84 minute feature from directors Timothy Jolley and Kirsty de Garis, principals of Road Trip Film, features extraordinary access to Dunne’s world, including never-before-seen home video footage. For the first time, Dominick tells his own story revealing his journey from unlikely war hero, Hollywood producer and outcast, to special correspondent and defining ‘voice’ of Vanity Fair magazine. Featuring Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, Tina Brown, Joan Didion and New York Post gossip columnist Liz Smith as well as legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans (The Godfather, Chinatown), the film presents a unique insight into the American pysche and it’s obsession with fame.

Celebrity: Dominick Dunne has now screened nationally in Australia including at the Melbourne and Adelaide Film Festivals. It is available for sale on-line at www.filmartmedia.com, click the graphic below, and in all good DVD shops.

Marketing assistance has been provided courtesy of Screen Australia.

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Film Art Doco presents HUNT ANGELS Starring Ben Mendelsohn and Victoria Hill Directed by Alec Morgan Produced by Sue Maslin Co-produced by Alec Morgan and Daryl Dellora 85 minutes, Colour/ B&W Palace Films (Australasia) Fortissimo Film Sales (International) Film Art Doco is proud to present ‘Hunt Angels’ a non-fiction feature film starring Ben Mendelsohn. In their passionate pursuit to make the great Australian film Rupert Kathner and Alma Brooks began a movie making spree in 1939 that took on the powerful cinema conglomerates, a corrupt police commissioner, the cultural cringe and a police posse. a FILM ART MEDIA release
Hunt Angels uses an innovative digital composite technique whereby the characters come alive in the real world of Sydney in the 30's and 40's. Available on DVD BUY NOW $27.89 FROM BIG W CLICK HERE _____________________________________________________

www.williambligh.com.au

Australian Film Commission and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation award Film Art Doco inaugural Broadband Production Initiative (BPI) funding for:
The Life, Times and Travels of the Extraordinary Vice-Admiral William Bligh
9 September 1754 — 7 December 1817

A Documentary Broadband Web Site

now online at

www.abc.net.au

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Jenny Hocking publishes the first volume of Gough Whitlam's Biography:

Gough Whitlam

A Moment in History

Jenny Hocking

Gough Whitlam examines Australian political and cultural developments
in the twentieth century through the life of one of its most significant public figures.

About this Title

This moment was not his alone, nor could it ever have come about without him . . . Gough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg, touched him lightly on the shoulder, saying, 'It's been a long road, Comrade, but we're there', and walked out to meet the spotlight . . .

Acclaimed biographer Jenny Hocking's Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History is the first contemporary and definitive biographical study of the former Labor Prime Minister.

From his childhood in the fledging city of Canberra to his first appearance as Prime Minister (playing Neville Chamberlain), to his extensive war service in the Pacific and marriage to Margaret, the champion swimmer and daughter of Justice Wilfred Dovey, the biography draws on previously unseen archival material, extensive interviews with family and colleagues, and exclusive interviews with Gough Whitlam himself.

Hocking's narrative skill and scrupulous research reveals an extraordinary and complex man, whose life is, in every way, formed by the remarkable events of previous generations of his family, and who would, in turn, change Australian political and cultural developments in the twentieth century.

Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History is a magnificent biography that illuminates the path that took one man to power.

Available at all good bookstores or on-line at:

Melbourne University Publishing

		FRANK HARDY Politics Literature Life JENNY HOCKING Hardback, 0734408366 Price: $39.95 This is the definitive biography of one of Australia’s most celebrated and controversial writers. A member of the communist party from an early age, Frank Hardy’s first secretly published novel Power Without Glory was the subject of an infamous criminal libel case. Hardy continued to challenge political and social issues with his writing until shortly before his death in 1994. Jenny Hocking includes material from interviews with surviving Hardy family members and never-before-published archival documents that shed new light on one of the most important Australian writers of the twentieth century.
		TERROR LAWS: ASIO, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY JENNY HOCKING UNSW PRESS, 2004, 304pp, PB, 235x155mm, 086840702X Availability: Plenty Price: $34.95 Associate Professor Jenny Hocking's new book is the first and only authoritative critique of the new Australian anti-terrorism laws. Under the Howard government Australia has gone further than any other western liberaldemocracy, including the US and UK in allowing for the arrest and detention of non-suspects in the fight against terrorism. Any ordinary Australian who has no connection with terrorism may now be arrested, in secret, and detained by ASIO for up to a week or more. Get this important book now! Contact Us Sue Maslin Film Art Media Pty Ltd PO Box 1312 Collingwood Vic 3066 Ph: 61 3 9417 2155 Mob: 0417 346 287 Fax: 61 3 9417 7336 E-mail: sue@filmartmedia.com Daryl Dellora Film Art Media Pty Ltd PO Box 1312 Collingwood Vic 3066 E-mail: daryl@filmartmedia.com
"necessary reading" Professor George Williams "timely and compelling" Julian Burnside QC