Born: Established: 1944 ;
Gender:
Male
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Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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form
y
Blood Oath
( dir. Stephen Henry Wallace
)
Australia
:
Blood Oath Productions
,
1990
Z1232452
1990
single work
film/TV
Based on the true story of an Australian Army captain who, in 1946, was assigned by the Australian Army Legal Corps to prosecute Japanese soldiers for their role in the Laha Massacre (1942) and other incidents at Ambon Island POW camp between the fall of Ambon to the Japanese in 1942 and the end of the war.
Set against the background of international power politics, the script attempts to portray the perplexing issue of war guilt through the rhetoric of courtroom drama. It can usefully be compared with the Japanese documentary The Tokyo Trial (1984), the second half of which deals with the trial of twenty-eight alleged war criminals.
- 1990 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Original Screenplay
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form
y
Bodysurfer
( dir. Ian Barry
)
Sydney
Australia
:
John Sexton Productions
ABC Television
,
1989
Z822410
1989
series - publisher
film/TV
A television mini-series based on the award-winning collection of short stories by Robert Drewe, Bodysurfer combines a number of characters and incidents to create a single narrative focusing on the troubled personal life of Sydney architect David Lang. The narrative takes place over a period of some eighteen months, beginning shortly after the failure of Lang's marriage. He begins a series of casual affairs, but memories of his past come flooding back to stir his feelings of guilt and he has a breakdown.
- 1989 winner Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Mini-series Screenplay
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