Gender:
Male
Heritage:
Aboriginal
;
Aboriginal Butchulla/Batjala/Badtjala
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Notes
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Other work by Wayne Blair include:
2015: Septembers of Shiraz : Director (2015)
Personal Awards
- 2019 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Supporting Actor
- 2011 recipient Bob Maza Fellowship
- 2008 nominated Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards — Excellence in Film & Theatrical Score Nominated for his direction of 'Ruben Guthrie'.
Awards for Works
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form
y
Firestarter : The Story of Bangarra
( dir. Wayne Blair
et. al. )agent
Australia
:
In Films
,
2020
20716459
2020
single work
film/TV
'Firestarter will mark the 30th anniversary of Australia’s most iconic performing arts company: Bangarra Dance Theatre. Told through the personal family story of its celebrated and longstanding artistic director, Stephen Page.'
Source: Screen Australia.
- 2022 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Documentary
- 2022 highly commended New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Multicultural NSW Award
- 2021 nominated AWGIE Awards — Documentary Award — Public Broadcast or Exhibition
- 2021 nominated AIDC Awards — Best Feature Documentary
- 2020 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Documentary
-
y
Sugarland
2014
South Brisbane
:
Playlab
,
2014
7682403
2014
single work
drama
'Sugarland provides a glimpse into a teenage Australia that feels like a foreign country. This haunting new play will make you pause, make you smile, make you wonder how much can be real.
'Erica's Dad is in the RAAF so her life gets a transplant every few years. Now she's in year eleven she's stopped trying to fit in. What does it matter; she'll be out of there in a few years anyway. Nina's good at school but that's not important. She needs a house to live in. And she needs it soon. She's been living at her Auntie's so she can go to school in town, but that's not working out.
'The only thing Erica and Nina have in common is the music they listen to. Sometimes that's enough.'(Publication summary)
- 2016 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best Regional Touring Production
- 2015 nominated AWGIE Awards — Stage Award — Theatre for Young People
- 2017 shortlisted Victorian Green Room Awards — Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
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form
y
Redfern Now
( dir. Catriona McKenzie
et. al. )agent
Australia
:
ABC Television
Screen Australia
Blackfella Films
,
2012-2013
Z1750518
2012
series - publisher
film/TV
Redfern Now is 'the first contemporary TV drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.'
Source: ABC Television website.
- 2014 winner Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2013 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series For Season Two
- 2013 winner Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards — Television Show of the Year
- 2013 winner Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2012 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2014 commended Australian Centre Literary Awards — The Kate Challis RAKA Award for the episode 'Sweet Spot'.
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