Bob Connolly is an Australian film director, cinematographer and
author. He is best known for his documentaries produced over the past
30 years, including The Highlands Trilogy and Rats in the Ranks. More
recent films include Facing the Music (2001) and Mrs Carey's Concert
(2011). His films have won an Academy Award nomination, AFI Awards,
and Grand Prix at the Cinéma du Réel Festival.Connolly was educated
at Sydney's Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and attended Sydney
University. He trained as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC), where he worked for almost a decade as a foreign
correspondent, current affairs reporter and documentary filmmaker.
While at the ABC he made over 30 documentaries and met his future wife
Robin Anderson, then a research assistant. The couple had two
daughters together.In 1980 he left the ABC to work independently with
Robin Anderson. Their first film together was River Journey (1980),
Shot on 35mm film during an arduous 2 week rafting trip down
Tasmania's Franklin River, the film played a major role in the river's
subsequent preservation. For the next twelve years Connolly and
Anderson directed their focus on the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
The couple developed an acclaimed professional partnership which
included the award-winning Highlands trilogy of documentaries about
Papua New Guinea, which saw First Contact receive an Academy Award
Nomination.
author. He is best known for his documentaries produced over the past
30 years, including The Highlands Trilogy and Rats in the Ranks. More
recent films include Facing the Music (2001) and Mrs Carey's Concert
(2011). His films have won an Academy Award nomination, AFI Awards,
and Grand Prix at the Cinéma du Réel Festival.Connolly was educated
at Sydney's Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and attended Sydney
University. He trained as a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC), where he worked for almost a decade as a foreign
correspondent, current affairs reporter and documentary filmmaker.
While at the ABC he made over 30 documentaries and met his future wife
Robin Anderson, then a research assistant. The couple had two
daughters together.In 1980 he left the ABC to work independently with
Robin Anderson. Their first film together was River Journey (1980),
Shot on 35mm film during an arduous 2 week rafting trip down
Tasmania's Franklin River, the film played a major role in the river's
subsequent preservation. For the next twelve years Connolly and
Anderson directed their focus on the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
The couple developed an acclaimed professional partnership which
included the award-winning Highlands trilogy of documentaries about
Papua New Guinea, which saw First Contact receive an Academy Award
Nomination.
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