Years active 1983–present TV shows Willesee at Seven Spouse Jennifer Cluff (m. 1982) | Role Film director Name Bill Bennett | |
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Occupation Film director, film producer, screenwriter Awards AACTA Award for Best Film, Crystal Globe Nominations AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay Movies Uninhabited, Tempted, In A Savage Land, Kiss or Kill, Two If by Sea Similar People Geraldine Hakewill, Bob Baines, Jennifer Cluff, Maya Stange, Chris Haywood | ||
Bill Bennett (born 1953) is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter.
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He dropped out of Medicine at the University of Queensland in 1972 and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a journalist. During a ten-year career as a journalist he won Australia's top TV award, the Logie Awards (Australia's Emmy) for Television Reporter of the Year, and then later for Most Outstanding Documentary. This led him to feature films.
Bennett has directed 16 feature films since 1983. His film Backlash was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Three years later his film Malpractice would be screened in the same section at the 1989 festival.
Career
Bennett was born in London to Australian parents and brought up in Brisbane. He studied journalism and got a cadetship with the ABC in 1972. He spent two years working in Adelaide on This Day Tonight then went to work for Mike Willesee in Sydney. He then worked on The Big Country and The Australians before moving into feature filmmaking with A Street to Die (1985).