Richard Joseph Frankland (born 16 December 1963) is an Australian
playwright, scriptwriter and musician. He is an Aboriginal Australian
of Gunditjmara origin from Victoria. He has worked significantly for
the Aboriginal Australian cause.Richard J. Frankland was born in
Melbourne, but grew up mainly on the coast in south-west Victoria.
Frankland has worked as a soldier, a fisherman, and as a field officer
to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. This
experience inspired him to write several plays, including No Way to
Forget, Who Killed Malcolm Smith and Conversations with the
Dead.Frankland won an AFI Award for Best Screenplay in a Short for his
short film No Way to Forget. It was the first film by an indigenous
director to win an AFI Award. It was broadcast nationally on SBS TV.
It screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the category of Un
Certain Regard.
playwright, scriptwriter and musician. He is an Aboriginal Australian
of Gunditjmara origin from Victoria. He has worked significantly for
the Aboriginal Australian cause.Richard J. Frankland was born in
Melbourne, but grew up mainly on the coast in south-west Victoria.
Frankland has worked as a soldier, a fisherman, and as a field officer
to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. This
experience inspired him to write several plays, including No Way to
Forget, Who Killed Malcolm Smith and Conversations with the
Dead.Frankland won an AFI Award for Best Screenplay in a Short for his
short film No Way to Forget. It was the first film by an indigenous
director to win an AFI Award. It was broadcast nationally on SBS TV.
It screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the category of Un
Certain Regard.
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