Sue Milliken

Sue Milliken AO
Born	Susan Kathleen Milliken
Occupations	Film and television producer, author
Organization	Australian Film Commission (chair 1994–1997)
Awards	Genie Award (1991) for Black Robe Raymond Longford Award (1993 Chauvel Award (2008) Canadian Screen Award
Website	suemilliken.com

Susan Kathleen Milliken AO is an Australian film and television producer, screenwriter and author. She is probably best known for Black Robe in which she won the Genie Award for Best Picture in 1991, apart from working in Australia, she produced 60 episodes of the US sci-fi series Farscape .

Milliken started work in the film industry in the 1960s with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in the continuity department, before becoming a freelance production manager, working on such shows as Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, she made a number of films with director and screenwriter Bruce Beresford, including The Odd Angry Shot and Ladies in Black ^[1] She was the chairwomen of the Australian Film Commission (now Screen Australia) from 1994 to 1997. ^[2]

Milliken was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2008 Australia Day Honours for "service to the film and television industry through a range of organisations, as an advocate for the development of the industry, for support and encouragement of Indigenous film makers, and as a producer". ^[3] In 1993, she was awarded the Raymond Longford Award and 2018, Milliken won the Chauvel Award, which acknowledges significant contribution to the Australian screen industry. ^[4] She has won Canadian Screen Award and Genie Award.

Works

Films

• The Odd Angry Shot (1979) – producer ^[5]
• The Fringe Dwellers (1985) – producer
• Les Patterson Saves the World (1987) – producer
• Black Robe (1991) – producer
• Sirens (1994) – producer
• Dating the Enemy (1995) – producer ^[6]
• Paradise Road (1997) – producer
• Crocodile Dreaming (2007) – producer
• My Brother Jack ^[5] (2001)
• The Redfern Story (2013) – producer
• Ladies in Black (2018) — producer and co-screenwriter ^[7]

Books

• Selective Memory; Melbourne, Vic. : Hybrid Publishers, 2013. ISBN   9781921665875 ^{[8] [9]}
• There’s a Fax From Bruce; Strawberry Hills, NSW  : Currency Press Pty Ltd, 2016. ISBN   9781925005660 ^[10]

References

1. Throsby, Margaret (26 August 2013). "Midday - Sue Milliken". ABC Classic FM . Archived from the original on 27 August 2013.
2. "Ms Susan Kathleen (Sue) MILLIKEN" (PDF). gg.gov.au. p. 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2014.
3. "MILLIKEN, Susan Kathleen". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
4. "The Chauvel Award". Gold Coast Film Festival. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
5. "Sue Milliken on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
6. "Sue Milliken". BFI . Archived from the original on 26 April 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
7. "Ladies in Black (2018) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". www.screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
8. "Producer Sue Milliken to receive 2018 Chauvel Award". Cinema Australia. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
9. "Selective Memory: A life in film | Sue Milliken" . Retrieved 16 July 2020.
10. Beresford, Bruce; Milliken, Sue (2008). There's a fax from Bruce. ISBN   978-1-925005-66-0. OCLC   950681635.

External links

• Official website
• Sue Milliken at IMDb  
• Milliken, Sue at The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia