Anna Broinowski

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Anna Broinowski is a Walkley Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Her feature documentaries are Forbidden Lie$, about Chicago hoax author Norma Khouri, [5] cited as one of the best 100 Australian films of the new millennium, [6] Aim High in Creation! (2013), about North Korea's propaganda filmmakers, [7] [8] and Pauline Hanson: Please Explain (2016), about Australian Senator Pauline Hanson. [9] [10]

Broinowski's broadcast documentaries include Helen's War, about anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott's 2003 campaign against the US-led invasion of Iraq, [11] [12] Heartbeat: the Miracle Inside You, about the latest advances in cardiothoracic surgery and treatment for ABC Catalyst, [13] Hell Bento!!, about the Japanese cultural underground, [14] and Sexing the Label (1996), about Sydney counter-cultures in the mid 1990s. [15]

In 2016, Broinowski won her third AFI/AACTA, for directing Pauline Hanson: Please Explain. [16] Her work has also received an Al Jazeera Golden Award, [17] a NSW Premier's Literary Award, [18] a Dendy, [19] the Rome Film Fest Cult Prize, [20] an Atom Award, [21] the St Petersburg International Media Forum Press Award for Best Film, [22] and the Writers Guild of America (East and West) Best Nonfiction Screenplay award. [23]

Broinowski has written two non-fiction books, Please Explain: the rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson (Penguin 2017), [24] and the Nib Waverley Alex Buzo shortlist prize-winning The Director is the Commander (Penguin 2015) [25] [26] which was released in the USA by Arcade Publishing as Aim High in Creation! in 2016. [27] [28] [29]

In 2016 Broinowski received a PhD from Macquarie University for her thesis on the history of deceptive techniques in documentary filmmaking, inspired by the relationship between filmmaker and subject in Forbidden Lie$. [30]

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