Stanley Hawes

Stanley Hawes

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name = Stanley Hawes


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birth_date = January 19, 1905
birth_place = England
death_date = April 19, 1991
death_place = Sydney, Australia
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occupation = Documentary film producer and director; Film administrator
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Stanley Gilbert Hawes (19 January1905 - 19 April1991) was a British-born documentary film producer and director who spent most of his career in Australia, though he commenced his career in England and Canada. He was born in London, England and died in Sydney, Australia. He is best-known as the Producer-in-Chief (1946-1969) of the Australian Government's filmmaking body, which was named, in 1945, the Australian National Film Board, and then, in 1956, the Commonwealth Film Unit. In 1973, after he retired, it became Film Australia.

Career

He started work in 1922 as a committee clerk with the City of Birmingham Corporation, but started his film career in 1931, when he co-founded the Birmingham Film Society. He arrived in Australia in 1946, from the National Film Board of Canada, to take up a position as Producer-in-Chief with the Australian National Film Board, initially as a temporary assignment but made permanent within a couple of years of his arrival. Hawes is regarded as working primarily in the classical style of documentary he learnt with John Grierson in the 1930s. As Moran writes, 'Films such as "School in the Mailbox", "Flight Plan" and "The Queen In Australia" make clear his aesthetic preference for the classic documentary rather than for drama or the more evocative, poetic forms of documentary'. [Moran, Albert (1987)]

He was elected a member of the board in 1952 and became a member of the British Film Academy the following year. He joined UNESCO in 1958 and chaired the National Film Theatre of Australia between 1970 and 1974. In 1971 he was appointed to chair the Film Board of Review.

Awards

In 1970 he was awarded an MBE and the Raymond Longford Award from the Australian Film Institute

The Stanley Hawes Award

The $5,000 Film Australia Stanley Hawes Award was established in 1997 to honour Stanley Hawes as first Producer-in-Chief of the Australian National Film Board and Commonwealth Film Unit. The award recognises the significant support he gave independent filmmakers in the documentary sector and is thus awarded to a person or organisation that makes an outstanding contribution to the documentary sector in Australia. [ [http://www.if.com.au/Press/2007/02/26.html IF Press Release 26 February 2007] ] The award is announced annually at the Australian International Documentary Conference.

Awardees:

*1999 John Heyer
*2001 Pat Fiske
*2003 Stewart Young
*2004 Robin Hughes
*2005 CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) Productions
*2006 John Hughes
*2007 Michael Gissing
*2008 David Bradbury

elected filmography

Producer

*"Today We Live: A Film of Life in Britain" (1937, Associate producer)
*"Here is the Land" (1937)
*"Timber Front" (1940)
*"Heroes of the Atlantic" (1941)
*"Women are Warriors" (1942)
*"Crocodile Hunters" (1949)
*"Darwin-Doorway to Australia" (1949)
*"Australia's Greatest River" (1950)
*"Know Your Children" (1950)
*"The Shearers" (1950)
*"Bush Policemen" (1952)
*"Snowy Waters" (1952)
*"Outback Patrol" (1952)
*"Across the Frontiers" (1953)
*"Bush Policeman" (1953)
*"The Queen in Australia" (1954)
*"Melbourne Olympic City" (1956)
*"Bring out a Briton" (1958)
*"Welcome Your Majesty" (1958)
*"The Queen Returns" (1963)
*"The Presidential Tour" (1966)
*"Expo 70 series" (1970)

Director

*"The G.B.I. Geography of Scotland: Water Power" (1937)
*"Here is the Land" (1937)
*"Man into Monkey" (1938)
*"Speed the Plough" (1939)
*"The Home Front" (1940) [http://www.nfb.ca/objectifdocumentaire/index.php?mode=view&filmId=18&language=english&sort=title]
*"Maple Sugar Time" (1941)
*"The World in Action: The Invasion of North Africa" (1942)
*"School in the mailbox" (1946)
*"Building for Tomorrow" (1947)
*"Flight Plan" (1950)
*"The Queen In Australia" (1954)
*"Children's Theatre" (1961)

Editor

*"Dry Dock" (1936)

Notes

References

* [http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/hfilm/MORAN.html Moran, Albert (1987) 'Documentary Consensus: The Commonwealth Film Unit: 1954-1964' in O'Regan, T and Shoesmith, B (eds) "History on/and/in Film", Perth, History & Film Association of Australia]
*Moran, Albert (1991) "Projecting Australia: government film since 1945" Sydney, Currency Press

External links

* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A352854%20|%20Number%3A350773%20|%20Number%3A349737;querytype=;resCount=10 Stanley Hawes at the National Film and Sound Archive]

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DATE OF BIRTH= 19 January, 1905
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DATE OF DEATH= 19 April, 1991
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