Chris Kennedy (filmmaker)

Chris Kennedy
Born(1948-12-01)1 December 1948
Sydney
Died27 August 2013(2013-08-27) (aged 64)
AwardsAustralian Writers Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay (1998), for Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Christopher Kennedy (1 December 1948 – 27 August 2013) was an Australian AFI Award-winning film director, writer, producer, and novelist. He was known for writing the screenplay of Doing Time for Patsy Cline.

Early life and education

Christopher Kennedy was born on 1 December 1948.[1]

He initially trained and qualified as a dentist and later studied at[2] the Swinburne Film and Television School in Melbourne. There, he was dubbed one of a "Gang of Four", along with Paul Goldman, John Hillcoat, and Evan English, owing to their pranks. They once set fire to a lecturer's office, and they were also responsible for "kidnapping a frozen chicken" from lecturer Peter Tammer.[3]

Career

Film

Kennedy made his first film Glass, a low budget thriller, in 1989 and followed it up with This Won't Hurt a Bit, in 1993.

During the 1990s he made Doing Time for Patsy Cline and the following decade, A Man's Gotta Do.[4]

He wrote the novel Made in Australia in 2011.

Kennedy owned the company, Oilrag Productions and Oillamp Books.[5]

Death

Kennedy died from a heart attack on 27 August 2013.[1]

Awards

Kennedy was a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee[which?] and an Australian Writer's Guild Award winner.[6]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "Vale – Chris Kennedy 1 December 1948 – 27 August 2013". Australian Cinematographers Society. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  2. ^ Interview with Chris Kennedy, 12 November 1998 Archived 28 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 19 October 2012
  3. ^ "Go-Go Gorilla: Another Time, Another Place: Making My Film at Swinburne". Senses of Cinema. July 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2024. MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers, Issue 51
  4. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p270
  5. ^ Oilrag Productions – The website of Chris Kennedy Archived 12 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  6. ^ The website of Chris Kennedy – 3 time AFI award nominee Archived 12 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 January 2008.


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