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John D. Lamond is an Australian film director, producer and writer〔(The New York Times )〕〔(Film.com )〕〔(Cinephilia.net.au )〕 best known for directing such films as ''Felicity'',〔(DVD Talk )〕 ''A Slice of Life'', ''Breakfast in Paris'' and ''Nightmares''.〔(Variety )〕〔(The New York Times )〕〔(The New York Times )〕 Before becoming a director he worked in distribution for Roadshow.〔David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980 p270〕 He was featured in the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!''〔(Boston.com )〕〔(DVD Talk )〕 ==Career== Lamond began working in the industry at Channel O in Melbourne in the props department, and became a film editor. He worked for several companies, mostly making TV ads at places like Ajax Studios. In 1969 he moved into the feature film industry when he was hired by Terry Turtle to help with the roadshow release of ''This Year Jerusalem''. After that he became involved in the release of ''The Naked Bunyip'', showing it around the country, which led to him performing a similar function on ''The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'' before Roadshow took over the release of that film.〔Murray p95〕 Terry Turtle then hired Lamond to handle the Australian release of ''Dynamite Chicken''. He designed a poster of a nun in a compromising position which caused a great deal of controversy, earning the ire of then-Minister for Customs Don Chipp and got Lamond a job offer from the Roadshow organisation to work in distribution.〔(Interview with John Lamond, ''Mondo Stumpo'', early 2002 ) accessed 14 October 2012〕 Lamond stayed with them for six months, working on the release of ''Alvin Purple'' and a number of other films for Roadshow, then he took a trip around the world with Byron Kennedy looking at various production and distribution set ups. He came back keen to make his first film and made ''Australia After Dark''. The movie was very successful and for the next few years Lamond alternated between making films and working for Roadshow's publicity department, making trailers and radio and TV spots. He would go away for eight weeks to make the movie then promote it while also working at Roadshow. This went until 1977 when it became too time consuming and Lamond became a full-time filmmaker.〔 After ''Sky Pirates'' Lamond stopped making movies in Australia and started making them in South East Asia: It’s actually a lot of fun making a film overseas if you can get the money together. There’s no Film Commission trying to control your money, you know, if it’s made in Singapore “it has to be Singaporean”. It’s more of the real world... I don’t like unions, and I don’t like to not work on weekends. And I like one day off, but I don’t feel the necessity to finish at 5 or 6 at night. Two days off and have coffee breaks and all that sort of thing.〔 In 2012 he announced plans to make several movies in Australia.〔(John Lamond plots a comeback Don Groves, ''SBS'', 26 March 2012 ) accessed 28 July 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John D. Lamond」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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