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Christopher Kennedy (1 December 1948 – 27 August 2013) was an Australian AFI Award-winning film director, writer, producer, and novelist. He was known for writing the screenplay of Doing Time for Patsy Cline.
Early life and education
Christopher Kennedy was born on 1 December 1948.
He initially trained and qualified as a dentist and later studied at the Swinburne Film and Television School in Melbourne. There, he was dubbed one of a "Gang of Four", along with Paul Goldman, John Hillcoat, and Evan English, owing to their pranks. They once set fire to a lecturer's office, and they were also responsible for "kidnapping a frozen chicken" from lecturer Peter Tammer.
Career
= Film
=Kennedy made his first film Glass, a low budget thriller, in 1989 and followed it up with This Won't Hurt a Bit, in 1993.
During the 1990s he made Doing Time for Patsy Cline and the following decade, A Man's Gotta Do.
He wrote the novel Made in Australia in 2011.
Kennedy owned the company, Oilrag Productions and Oillamp Books.
Death
Kennedy died from a heart attack on 27 August 2013.
Awards
Kennedy was a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee and an Australian Writer's Guild Award winner.
1998: Australian Writers Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay, for Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1998: Australian Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography, for Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1998: San Diego International Film Festival Award for Best Original Script, for Doing Time for Patsy Cline
2008: Montreal Film Festival's Golden Zenith for Best Film from Oceania, for A Man's Gotta Do
Selected filmography
Glass (1989)
This Won't Hurt a Bit (1993)
Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
A Man's Gotta Do (2003)
References
External links
Chris Kennedy at IMDb
Oil Rag Productions and Oil Lamp Books
"Chris Kennedy". ACMI.