Her feature documentaries are Forbidden Lie$, about Chicago hoax author Norma Khouri,[5] cited as one of the best 100 Australian films of the new millennium,[6]Aim High in Creation! (2013), about North Korea's propaganda filmmakers,[7][8] and Pauline Hanson: Please Explain (2016), about Australian Senator Pauline Hanson.[9][10]
Broinowski's broadcast documentaries include Helen's War: Portrait of a Dissident, about anti-nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott's 2003 campaign against the US-led invasion of Iraq,[11][12]Heartbeat: the Miracle Inside You, about the latest advances in cardiothoracic surgery and treatment for ABC Catalyst,[13]Hell Bento!!, about the Japanese cultural underground,[14] and Sexing the Label (1996), about Sydney counter-cultures in the mid 1990s.[15]
Growing up Broinowski attended schools in Myanmar, Iran, the Philippines, Canberra and Japan.[16]
Career
In 2016, Broinowski won her third AFI/AACTA, for directing Pauline Hanson: Please Explain.[18] Her work has also received an Al Jazeera Golden Award,[19] a NSW Premier's Literary Award,[20] a Dendy,[21] the Rome Film Fest Cult Prize,[22] an Atom Award,[23] the St Petersburg International Media Forum Press Award for Best Film,[24] and the Writers Guild of America (East and West) Best Nonfiction Screenplay award.[25]
Broinowski has written two non-fiction books, Please Explain: the rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson (Penguin 2017),[26] and the Nib Waverley Alex Buzo shortlist prize-winning The Director is the Commander (Penguin 2015)[27][28] which was released in the USA by Arcade Publishing as Aim High in Creation! in 2016.[29][30][31]
In 2016 Broinowski received a PhD from Macquarie University for her thesis on the history of deceptive techniques in documentary filmmaking, inspired by the relationship between filmmaker and subject in Forbidden Lie$.[32]
Filmography
Feature films
Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground (1995)[33]
Sexing the Label - Love and Gender in a Queer World (1997)
Romancing the Chakra (1998)
Helen's War - Portrait of a Dissident (2004)
Forbidden Lie$ (2007)
Aim High in Creation (2013)
Pauline Hanson: Please Explain! (2016)
Uluru and the Magician (2021)
Short films
Tsunamai (1999)
Burqa (2003)
Fish and Chips (2011)
Kim Jong Il's Cinema Experience (2013) - Interactive Documentary
Bibliography
Books
The Director is the Commander (2015) or Aim High in Creation! in the United States
Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson (2017)
↑ Broinowski, Anna (2015). Aim High in Creation!. United States of America: Arcade Publishing. p.12. ISBN978-1628726770. IT ALL STARTED WITH A BIRTHDAY present. In 2009, my partner threw a fondue party for my fortieth, in the film school where he worked.
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