Annette Blonski was born in Melbourne to parents of Polish, Jewish, German and Russian origin. She completed her tertiary education which included an MA (Prelim.) at Monash University, where she was employed as a research assistant in the French and Politics Departments from 1972 to 1974. From 1974 to 1975 she was engaged in filmaking and tutoring in film theory and production at Coburg State College. From 1975 to 1982 she was Senior Tutor and Course Co-ordinator of Film Theory and Film Production and the Graduate Diploma of Expressive Arts, at Toorak State College. From 1983 to 1984 Blonski lectured in Film in the Visual Arts Department, Monash University and was a weekly film reviewer for Radio 3RRR-FM. From 1985 to 1986 she served as Executive Director of the Australian Film Institute. From 1987 to 1990 she worked as a part-time lecturer at the Swinburne Film and Television School. From 1991 through 1999 she served as Mentor for the Australian Film Corporation Script Editing Attachment Scheme, as Curatorial Consultant for the Victorian Craft Council's exhibition, Turn the Soil and as a part-time lecturer for the Victorian College for the Arts School of Film and Television.
From 1976 and through the following twenty five years Blonski worked as a freelance consultant, script editor and policy consultant to the Australian Film Commission (AFC), the Australian Film Finance Corporation (FFC), the Pacific Film and Television Commission and independent production companies, writers and directors. She also became a member of the Australian Writers' Guild and in the 1990s was awarded a Script and Story Editing Fellowship from the Australian Film Commission Distinctly Australian Program. In October 1999 she won the Lottie Lyell Award for Outstanding Contribution to Screen Culture.
