2009 Ken G Hall Award
Filmmaker and anthropologist Ian Dunlop is the 2009 recipient of the NFSA Ken G Hall Award.
Ian Dunlop with the Ken G Hall Award 2009
Filmmaker Ian Dunlop was born in the UK in 1927 and emigrated to Australia after World War II. After graduating from Sydney University, Ian joined the Commonwealth Film Unit (later Film Australia) in 1956. Ian spent over thirty years with Film Australia as a producer and director, his films include the People of the Australian Western Desert series, the Towards Baruya Manhood series of films about male initiation in Papua New Guinea, and the Yirrkala Film Project, an acclaimed series of films shot over twenty five years about the Yolgnu people of Arnhem Land.
Through films such as Desert People and the Yirrkala Film Project, Ian has produced a significant and lasting audiovisual record of Indigenous history which is preserved in the collections of the NFSA and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
Ian was the inaugural recipient of the Australian Film Institute Raymond Longford Award in 1968 for his contribution to Australian filmmaking and was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1986 for public service, particularly in the field of ethnographic filmmaking. Ian also served a member of the NFSA's Indigenous Reference Group for many years.
