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Robin Anderson (1950-2002) was an Australian documentary filmmaker. Anderson was in born in Perth in 1950. After graduating from high school in 1967 she spent a year in Europe including 6 months in Paris. Back in Australia she studied economics at the University of Western Australia and graduated three years later with honors and a federal government scholarship to study for master's degree in sociology at the Columbia University in New York. There she studied under Herbert J. Gans and during her time in New York she developed a greater interest in cinema and ultimately decided to become a filmmaker. Anderson returned to Australia after the graduating from Columbia and started to work for the Australia broadcaster ABC. Through her work at ABC she met the documentary filmmaker Bob Connolly, who soon became her husband and the father of her two future daughters. Together with her husband she produced five extensively researched documentaries set in Papua New Guinea and Australia, which were positively received and garnered several awards. Their first documentary First Contact about the Australian Leavy brothers and their relation to natives of the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Documentary Feature in 1984. Anderson died of cancer on 8 March, 2002 in Sydney. ==Filmography== *1982: First Contact *1989: Joe Leahy's Neighbours *1992: Black Harvest *1996: Rats in the Ranks *2001: Facing the Music 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「Robin Anderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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