Bill Bennett (born 1953) is an Australian film director, producer and
screenwriter.He dropped out of Medicine at the University of
Queensland in 1972 and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
as a journalist. During a ten-year career as a journalist he won
Australia's top TV award, the Logie Awards (Australia's Emmy) for
Television Reporter of the Year, and then later for Most Outstanding
Documentary. This led him to feature films.Bennett has directed 16
feature films since 1983. His film Backlash was screened in the Un
Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Three years
later his film Malpractice would be screened in the same section at
the 1989 festival.
screenwriter.He dropped out of Medicine at the University of
Queensland in 1972 and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
as a journalist. During a ten-year career as a journalist he won
Australia's top TV award, the Logie Awards (Australia's Emmy) for
Television Reporter of the Year, and then later for Most Outstanding
Documentary. This led him to feature films.Bennett has directed 16
feature films since 1983. His film Backlash was screened in the Un
Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Three years
later his film Malpractice would be screened in the same section at
the 1989 festival.
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