Ned Lander is an Australian film producer,

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, and former head of SBS Independent, from

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. He has produced or commissioned many culturally significant programs, including the animated children's series ''Little J and Big Cuz'' (2017), '' Last Cab to Darwin'' (2015) and ''

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'' (1998). He is best known for directing ''

Wrong Side of the Road ''Wrong Side of the Road'' is a 1981 low-budget feature film made in South Australia. It is distinctive for being one of the first attempts to bring modern Australian Aboriginal music to a non-Indigenous Australian, Indigenous audience, featurin ...

'' (1981), a drama-documentary spotlighting Aboriginal musicians, which earned the Jury Prize at the

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. Another notable work is '' 50 Years Of Silence'' (1994), which won the

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for Best Documentary.

Filmography

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* Australian film producers Australian film directors Living people 1956 births {{Australia-film-director-stub