DAVID HANNAYProducer |
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His television credits include two award winning television series, THE GODFATHERS and NUMBER 96 and three award winning telemovies, IS THERE ANYBODY THERE?, THE ALTERNATIVE, and MAMA'S GONE A HUNTING. His feature film credits include Sandy Harbutt's international box office hit STONE, the Golden Harvest Greater Union co-production THE MAN FROM HONG KONG, the award winning New Zealand feature SOLO, the World War II dramas DEATH OF A SOLDIER with James Coburn and EMMA'S WAR with Lee Remick, Bill Douglas' award winning masterpiece COMRADES with Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox and Michael Hordern, Oliver Schmitz and Thomas Mogotlane's anti-apartheid and multi-award winning film MAPANTSULA, SHOTGUN WEDDING with Aden Young and Zoe Carides, GROSS MISCONDUCT starring Jimmy Smits and Naomi Watts, John Feldman's New York set DEAD FUNNY starring Andrew McCarthy, Elizabeth Pena and Paige Turco, the UK/NZ Co-Production SAVAGE PLAY starring Ian Richardson, Peter Kaa, Lisa Walker, Wi Kuki Kaa and Rena Owen, the French/Australian Co-Production LOVE IN AMBUSH, starring Jacques Perrin, Sigrid Thornton and Gary Sweet, and Richard Kuiper's feature documentary STONE FOREVER. In the 'noughties' his feature films include the award winners CUBBYHOUSE starring Joshua Leonard, Belinda McClory and Craig McLachlan, and HILDEGARDE starring Richard E. Grant, Tom Long and Tara Morice. He has worked with thirteen directors on their first feature films and at least as many first time writers and producers. His executive positions include Head of Production for Gemini Productions (which merged with the Grundy Organisation in 1977) from 1970 to 1973 and again from 1975 to 1976, and General Manager of the Greater Union production subsidiary, The Movie Company in 1974. Since 1977 he has been an independent producer and Chairman of his own production company. In 2009 in recognition of long and outstanding service to the industry of Australian Screen Production he was awarded Life Membership of the Screen Producers Association of Australia. In 2008 he was awarded the Australian Screen Sound Guild's Syd Butterworth Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the inaugural recipient of the Screen Producers Association 2002 Maura Fay Award ‘for service to the industry’. In 1996 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Producers and Directors Guild of Australia. He was also named Film Pioneer of the Year by The Society of Australian Cinema Pioneers 'for outstanding service to the Motion Picture Industry'. In 1988 he received The Human Rights Australia Film award for MAPANTSULA. |
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