Danielle MacLean

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Danielle MacLean is an Australian filmmaker. She is known for her writing on television series such as Little J & Big Cuz, 8MMM Aboriginal Radio and Redfern Now.

Early life

MacLean is of the Luritja and Warumungu peoples of the Northern Territory of Australia.[1]

Career

MacLean started work at

stills photographer.[2]

She lived in

Pitjantjatjara and Arrernte languages The series started in 1987 and comprised 187 half-hour episodes.[4] which was shot in the bush communities and broadcast on Imparja Television.[3]

In 1997, she was supported by

albino Aboriginal teenager attending a convent boarding school in Alice Springs.[2] The film was selected for showing at several international film festivals, and nominated for several awards.[3][5] Steven McGregor was producer on the film.[6]

She left CAAMA in 1999, becoming a freelance writer and director.[3]

In 2001 she wrote and directed For Who I am – Bonita Mabo, a documentary about Bonita Mabo.[3]

She wrote and directed Queen of Hearts, a drama, released in 2004.[3]

In 2012 MacLean wrote an episode of the acclaimed drama series, Redfern Now. In the same year, she wrote and produced Croker Island Exodus a documentary film which screened Sydney Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival, and was broadcast on ABC Television.

MacLean wrote and directed Blown Away, released in 2014, an hour-long documentary about

Tiger Brennan, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam,[7][8] publisher and writer Sophie Cunningham, and politician (later NT Human Rights Commissioner) Dawn Lawrie.[9]

She wrote three episodes of the

ABC2 in 2014.[3]

She wrote episode 5 of the second series of Mystery Road,[2] which went to air in 2020.[10]

Collaborations

MacLean collaborates frequently with Steven McGregor, and has also worked with Warwick Thornton, her cousin Beck Cole, Trisha Morton-Thomas and sound recordist David Tranter.[2][7] She directed one of the segments of the anthology film We Are Still Here, which premiered as the opening film of the 2022 Sydney Film Festival.[11]

Awards and nominations

  • 2004: Queen of Hearts – AFI Award for Non-Feature Screenplay (writer and director)[3]

References

  1. AACTA
    . 7 December 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Groves, Don (13 June 2019). "Danielle MacLean proudly carries the flag for Indigenous storytelling". IF Magazine. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  3. ^
    Ronin Films
    . Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  4. Australian Screen
    . Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  5. ^
    Australian Screen
    . Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  6. Ronin Films
    . Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  7. ^
    Ronin Films
    . Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  8. ^ "Press Kit". Blown Away. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  9. ^ "Interviewees". Blown Away Documentary. 2 December 2014. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  10. IMDb
  11. Screen Daily
    , 4 May 2022.

External links

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