BIOGRAPHY:
Daryl Dellora has been making films
since completing a BA at Monash University in 1980 and studying
under Bill Van Der Hyde and John A. Scott at the then Canberra
CAE (now Canberra University) in 1982.
His first major film Seven
Years Later (1982, 20 mins) was a combination of documentary
reflections on the sacking of the Whitlam Government juxtaposed
with dramatised scenes which evoke the dialogue, situations and
characters of US day-time soap opera.
He
completed the Swinburne Graduate Diploma of Applied Film and TV
in 1985 where his student film about the late Frank Hardy, Hollywood
Ten, Melbourne One (1985, 30 mins) was nominated for an AFI
award. He has gone on to make feature length and one hour films
for theatrical release and television and has established the
production company Film
Art Doco.
CRITICAL
OVERVIEW: "There is no such thing as
truth only the search for it." Daryl Dellora has consistently
made films which challenge either notions of established documentary
film practice or entrenched broadcast television orthodoxies.
He has been particularly interested in the penumbra between drama
and documentary forms and often experimented with the use of established
dramatic film conventions and story-telling within the documentary
context. His films often revolve around the rich and compelling
world of Australian law, politics and history. He co-wrote and
directed the groundbreaking political film Mr Neal is Entitled
to be an Agitator (1991, 58 mins) about the life of High Court
Judge Lionel Murphy and the witch-hunt against him which led to
his death. TheEdge of the Possible (1998, 55 mins)
has won international acclaim and represents the first time since
the early 1970s that the master architect of the Sydney Opera
House, Jørn Utzon, has broken his silence on his persecution
at the hands of the Askin government in NSW in the 1960s.
Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One (1985, 30 mins)
Michael KirbyTRAILER (2010)
FILMOGRAPHY:
Hollywood
Ten, Melbourne One
Election
'80 (1980,
10 mins, Super 8)
Seven
Years Later (1982, 20 mins, 16mm)
ETD (1982,
10 mins, 16mm)
Shadowy
and Sinister Figures (1984, 30 mins, Super 8)
Hollywood
Ten, Melbourne One (1985, 30 mins, 16mm)
A Film
about Politics (1985, 1 min, 16mm)
Cleanskin
(1986, 30 mins, BVU video)
Film Australia
departmental films (1987, Various up to 30 minutes, Betacam)
Against
the Innocent (1988, 76 mins, 16mm)
Wimmera
River Catchment (1990, 25 mins, VHS)
Mr. Neal
is Entitled to be an Agitator (1991, 58 mins, 16mm)
Koories
and Cops (1993, 33 mins, Betacam)
Conspiracy
(1994, 58 mins, 16mm/1 inch Video)
Australian
Television Archive (1997, 16 hrs, Betacam) Sixteen Melbourne-based
poineers of the televison industry in Australia (mainly directors
and producers) were interviewed for this major oral history project
now housed in the ScreenSound archives and recently purchased
by ACMI.
The Edge
of the Possible (1998, 55 mins, DVC Pro)
The Highest
Court (1998, 56 mins, DVC Pro)
A Mirror
to the People (2000, 55 mins, DVC Pro)
John Howard – As Good as His Word (2004, 6 mins, DVD)
part of Time To Go John
The Extraordinary Life And Times Of Vice-Admiral William Bligh (2005, Interactive Website)
Michael Kirby: Don't forget the Justice Bit (2010, 58 mins, DigiBeta)
Harry Seidler Modernist (2016, 58 mins HDV)
Co-writer:
Who Shot
George Kirkland? (Un-produced Script, 1993, 105 mins)
A Law
is Made (2000, Script, 13 mins, Betacam)
Saint
Ned (in development 2003, 55 mins, 16mm)
Co-Producer:
Hunt Angels ( 2006, 85 mins, directed by Alec Morgan)
Executive Producer:
Celebrity Dominick Dunne (2008, 85 mins, HDV, directed by Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley)
The Dressmaker (2015, 119 mins, HDV, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse)
Commissioning
Editor SBSi 2002:
The What
If? Man, The science fictional life of Peter Nicholls, Mark
Atkin & Charlotte Seymour 52 mins
Trespass,
David Vadiveloo, 26 mins
Surfers'
Paradise, Cathie Schnitzerling, 26 mins
Taringa,
The Houses of Rex and Susan Addison, Dennis Tupicoff and Fiona
Cochrane, 26 mins
Flying
Home, Jacqui North, 26 mins
Push Bikes,
David Vadiveloo, 6 mins Inma
Maku, 6 mins Digging
Dirt and Doing Pannies, 6 mins That
Other Country, 6 mins Girls
Making Things, 6 mins Unlock,
6 mins
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Books by Daryl Dellora:
Michael Kirby: Law, Love and Life, Penguin 2012
Jørn Utzon and The Sydney Opera House, Penguin 2013
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Numerous
reviews in all major Australian dailies including The Bulletin and trade mags such as Encore and Hollywood Reporter.
HOLLYWOOD
TEN, MELBOURNE ONE. Cantrills Filmnotes, April 1986. No.
49/50 (Double Issue): pp. 64-66.
"Breaking
The Law: A conversation with Daryl Dellora", The Age Monthly
Review, August 1989, Vol. 9, No. 5. pp 8-10 (Interview by
Beth Spencer).
"We
owe it to the victims to solve the Hilton mystery", TheAustralian, Friday September 8 1995, p. 17.
