David Bradbury

David Bradbury has earned an international reputation as a film maker willing to go to extraordinary lengths for a cause, exposing political oppression and environmental vandalism.

David started his career in 1972 as a radio journalist with the ABC after graduating from the Australian National University with a BA in Political Science. After post graduate studies in broadcast journalism in the United States, he worked as a freelance journalist.

With his first film, Frontline, a portrait of legendary Australian news cameraman Neil Davis in Vietnam, Bradbury earnt his first Academy Award nomination.

His next film is the well nomintated documentary Public Enemy Number One. It followed the life of controversial Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, the first western correspondent into Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped.

In 1982 the writer, Graham Greene, a friend and mentor to Bradbury, advised him to go to Nicaragua. The covert war of the CIA against the Sandinistas had started. His film, Nicaragua: No Pasaran, is an epic piece that uses as its central character Sandinista leader Tomas Borge.

Chile: Hasta Cuando? earned Bradbury another Academy Award nomination in 1986. Filmed covertly, the film gave a glimpse of life under Pinochet's military dictatorship.

South of the Border, produced in 1987, used the music of the popular grass roots movement (Nueva Cancion) in Central and South America to tell the story of people’s political struggle against dictatorship and entrenched privilege. It was broadcast around the world.

In 1988 Bradbury turned his cameras back home to make State of Shock. This film told the tragic story of Alwyn Peters, an Aboriginal man in his 20's who murdered his girlfriend.