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Robin Anderson (filmmaker)
Robin Anderson (1950 – 2002) was an Australian award-winning documentary filmmaker. She is known for her 1996 film ''Rats in the Ranks''. Early life and education Robin Anderson was in born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1950. After graduating from high school in 1967 she spent a year in Europe, including six months in Paris. Back in Australia she studied economics at the University of Western Australia and graduated three years later with honours. She then worked in Canberra for the Australian Government for several years, until she won a government scholarship to study for master's degree in sociology at Columbia University in New York City. There she studied under Herbert J. Gans, and during her time in New York she developed a greater interest in cinema and ultimately decided to become a filmmaker.Robin Hughes''Robin Anderson – A Tribute'' ''Senses of Cinema'', May 2002Richard Philipps''Leading Australian documentary filmmaker dies''at wsws.org on 18 March 2002 Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rats In The Ranks
''Rats in the Ranks'' is an Australian documentary film released in 1996. The film detailed the last weeks of the 1994 Leichhardt Municipality, Leichhardt Council mayoral elections. The filmmakers, Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson (filmmaker), Robin Anderson (later known for ''Facing the Music (2001 film), Facing the Music'' and other projects, but already well known) were allowed access to the innermost meetings of participants including the serving mayor Larry Hand and his Australian Labor Party, Labor Party opponents. Hand's exposure to a wider audience spawned the character Col Dunkley in the successful Australian TV series ''Grass Roots (TV series), Grass Roots'', and ''Rats in the Ranks'' is regarded as a classic in its portrayal of local politics in Australia. Awards ''Rats in the Ranks'' has been screened at more than forty film festivals and has won multiple awards, including the Silver Plaque for Social/Political Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |