John Moore
Production
- Died
- July 23, 2019
John Moore produced award-winning documentaries for over twenty years. His programs sold to ABC TV, SBS, Channel 4, ARTE, the Canadian History Channel and TV Ontario.
His programs made for the Film Australia History Scheme included Menzies & Churchill at War and Monash the Forgotten Anzac.
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His 2005 documentary about Bertram Wainer Abortion, Corruption & Cops was nominated at the 2005 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards and the 2006 Sydney Film Festival.
In 2001 John produced and directed Thomson of Arnhem Land for Film Australia and the ABC. Thomson won the $15,000 NSW Premiers History Award, an AFI Award for Editing and was nominated for awards at Banff and Shanghai TV Festivals.
John's awards included a United Nations Peace Award for Barefoot Student Army in 1994, Best Documentary at the Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals for Black Man's Houses (1993) and an Australian Film Institute Award for Best TV Documentary for Guns & Roses (1991).
John was also a board member of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
He passed away on 23 July 2019, sadly missed by the documentary community and leaving behind him a huge legacy of social documentaries which responsibly addressed key issues of the day.
Known for
Behind the camera9
- 2017From Under the Rubble Producer
- 2008Monash: The Forgotten Anzac Writer
- 2008Menzies and Churchill at War Writer
- 2006Abortion, Corruption and Cops: The Bertram Wainer Story Director, Writer
- 2003In the Realm of the Hackers Producer
- 2000Thomson of Arnhem Land Producer, Director
- 1994Harold Producer
- 1993Black Man's Houses Co-Producer
- 1990Women and Wallace Utility Stunts
