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Fabio Cavadini
Frontyard Films is an Australian film production company that makes documentary films, owned by Australian documentary filmmakers Amanda King and Fabio Cavadini. Their films include ''An Evergreen Island'', ''Starting from Zero'' and ''A Thousand Different Angles''. Background Fabio Cavadini Cavadini came to Australia from northern Italy, where he was a dental technician, in 1969. He had grown up mainly in Switzerland, and came to Australia at the urging of his brother, Alessandro Cavadini, who made ''Ningla A-Na'', a documentary about the setting up of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972. Fabio met Bob Maza, Gary Foley and others who were involved in ''Basically Black'', an Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal comedy revue which was also made into a TV program. Alessandro and his then partner, Caroline Strachan, raised the money to make a film on Great Palm Island, Queensland, Palm Island, ''Protected (film), Protected'', for which Fabio did the camerawork. They subsequently made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception hat remainsa practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social-media platforms (such as YouTube) have provided an avenue for the growth of the documentary- film gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
