Don Featherstone (filmmaker)

This article is about the Australian professional filmmaker. For other notable people named Don Featherstone, see Donald Featherstone.
For the Australian amateur filmmaker, see Don Featherstone (filmmaker, 1902–1984).

Don Featherstone is an Australian filmmaker. His work includes documentaries about significant figures in Australian arts and culture, including authors David Malouf and Tim Winton, artist Brett Whiteley and dancer Robert Helpmann. Featherstone's works address social and historical issues such as beach culture, The Beach, gangs, The One Percenters about the Milperra Massacre,[1] and war, Kokoda.[2]

Featherstone's satirical mockumentary for television, BabaKiueria, has been the subject of academic comparative analysis of imperial historicity and postcolonial social progress.[3] It has also been included in cultural exchanges, for example in "Southern Exposure" between the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Museum Of Contemporary Art, San Diego.[4]

In 1985 Featherstone co-founded Featherstone Productions with Judy Featherstone.[1]

Featherstone's works have been screened and broadcast internationally, in many countries.[1]

Other filmmakers utilise Featherstone's work, for example James Bogle's Whiteley.[5]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference austlit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Smyth, Terry (21 April 2010). "Kokoda film a trail of bad memories". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  3. ^ Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca (2006). "Revisiting the Vanquished: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial Encounters". Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 6 (2): 84–102. doi:10.1353/jem.2006.0010. JSTOR 40339575. S2CID 154828023. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  4. ^ McDonald, John (10 May 2008). "All their eggs in the one basket". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  5. ^ Coslovich, Gabriella (1 May 2017). "Brett Whiteley documentary traces the tumultuous life of art's 'hand grenade'". The SYdney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 December 2021.