Don Featherstone is an Australian documentary filmmaker. His work includes documentaries about many significant figures in Australian arts and culture, including authors David Malouf

David Malouf

David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...

 and Tim Winton

Tim Winton

Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....

, artist Brett Whiteley

Brett Whiteley

Brett Whiteley, AO was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald Prize...

 and dancer Robert Helpmann

Robert Helpmann

Sir Robert Helpmann CBE was an Australian dancer, actor, theatre director and choreographer.-Early years:He was born Robert Murray Helpman in Mount Gambier, South Australia and also boarded at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide. From childhood, Helpman had a strong desire to be a dancer...

, as well as the satirical mockumentary

Mockumentary

A mockumentary , is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself...

 BabaKiueria

BabaKiueria

BabaKiueria is a 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Indigenous Australians and Australians of European descent.The opening scene depicts a group of uniformed Indigenous Australians coming ashore in a small boat, watched by various European Australians engaged in typical beachside...

. From 2005 to 2010, Featherstone researched and filmed the documentary Kokoda, based on the book by Paul Ham

Paul Ham

Paul Ham is an Australian author and the Australia correspondent of the London Sunday Times. He has a masters degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Mitchell College of Advanced Education in Bathurst, NSW .He wrote...

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