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Michael Thornhill (born
March 29 1941,
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia ) is a
film producer,
screenwriter, and
director.
He has a background in freelance
journalism and
publishing including working as a
film critic.
He was a member of the
WEA Film Study Group in the
1960s where he met
writers Ken Quinnell and
Frank Moorhouse. He wrote film articles on film for the
WEA Film Study Group film journal Film Digest from
1965. He and
Ken Quinnell published the film journal
SCJ : The Sydney cinema journal from 1966-1968. He was the
film critic for the
Sydney Morning Herald and
The Australian (1969 to 1973).
Michael Thornhill has an extensive career in the
Australian film industry. He is best known for his films
The F.J. Holden (1977) and
Between Wars (1974). He worked as a
projectionist and
film editor before turning to directing short films and documentaries in the late
1960s. Some of his first films were short
documentaries made for the
Commonwealth Film Unit (now
Film Australia) including
The Esperance story (1968) and
Cheryl and Kevin (1974).
He has directed many films with
screenplays written by
Frank Moorhouse including
The American Poet's Visit (1969),
The Girl from the Family of Man (1970) and
The Machine Gun (1971),
Between Wars (1974),
The Everlasting Secret Family (1988) and the
docudrama Who Killed Baby Azaria? (1983).
His
screenplays include
The Esperance story (1968),
Cheryl and Kevin (1974), and his
feature film The Journalist (1979) . He has been the producer for many of his films including
Between Wars (1974),
The F.J. Holden (1977),
The Ever-Lasting Secret Family (1988) and
Who Killed Baby Azaria? (1983). In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was a director of the New South Wales Film Corporation, giving valuable support to films such as
Hoodwink (1981). In the mid 1980s he produced several high-rating television programs such as The Great Gold Swindle (1984, executive producer) and Robbery (1985, director and producer).
Awards
His film
Between Wars (
1974) was awarded 1976 Cinematographer of the Year, by the Australian Cinematographers Society) for the Cinematographer
Russell Boyd
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