Born in Sydney, NSW, Australia. David Bradbury has earned an international reputation as a film maker willing to go to extraordinary lengths for a cause, exposing political oppression and environmental vandalism. In 1972 he began his career as a radio journalist with the ABC after graduating from the Australian National University with a BA in Political Science. After post graduate studies in broadcast journalist in the United States, he worked as a freelance journalist covering the Spring Revolution in Portugal in 1974 as well as the overthrow of the Greek military junta in Athens that same year and the final days of the Shah of Iran. In 1977 Bradbury smuggled himself into the border area of Papua New Guinea and West Papua and brought out photos and the first ever interview with the Free Papua Movement (OPM) in their guerilla struggle against the Indonesian military. His first film, FRONTLINE, a portrait of legendary Australian news cameraman Neil Davis in Vietnam, earned Bradbury his first Academy Award nomination. It won first prize at the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, the coveted Grierson award at the American Film Festival and was screened worldwide on PBS, BBC and TF1 in France. His next film PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE followed the life of controversial Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, the first western correspondent into Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped. The documentary shows how Burchett was vilified by the mainstream press and conservative public in Australia for his coverage of Òthe other sideÓ in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Burchett was a close friend of Ho Chi Min and covered the war in Vietnam until the American defeat. It won the Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1981, the Christopher Statuette at the Columbus Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival, an AFI award and was screened in Berlin, London, Edinburgh. American and Cork Film Festivals to critical acclaim. It was never shown on Australian TV because it was too controversial. In 1982 the writer, Graham Greene, a friend and mentor to Bradbury, advised him to go to Nicaragua. The covert war of the CIA against the Sandinistas had started. His film NICARAGUA: NO PARASAN is an epic piece that uses as its central character Sandinista leader Tomas Borge. It won a special certificate of High Merit at the 1985 Academy Awards and was shown in film festivals and art house cinemas across the US, the UK and Australia. CHILE: HASTA QUANDO? earned Bradbury another Academy Award nomination in 1986. Filmed covertly, the film gave a glimpse of life under Pinochet's military dictatorship. When it opened in theatres in Sydney and Melbourne it broke all box office records for a political documentary. It scooped the Australian Film Industy awards that year for Best Direction, Best Soundtrack and Best Cinematography as well as first prize at Rio de Janeiro, Cuba and Mannheim Film Festivals. SOUTH OF THE BORDER, produced in 1987, used the music of the popular grass roots movement (Nueva Cancion) in Central and South America to tell the story of people's political struggle against dictatorship and entrenched privilege. It was broadcast around the world. In 1988 Bradbury turned his cameras back home to make STATE OF SHOCK. This film told the tragic story of Alwyn Peters, an Aboriginal man in his 20's who murdered his girlfriend, Deidre on Weipa South Aboriginal reserve while drunk. It showed how Alwyn was a product of disposssession and alienation from his own culture by a mining company taking away his family's tribal land and uprooting him from his traditions. It was also a cry for help from Aboriginal women on the receiving end of their men's violence towards them, and a murder reate that is 30 times greater than white Australia. For a more detailed look at Bradbury's work, visit the Frontline Films web site.  Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1980: FRONT LINE - Producer  Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1986: CHILE: HASTA CUANDO? - Producer 2 nominations