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Doco filmmakers support Assange

More than 84 Australian documentary filmmakers have signed a petition asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard “to confirm publicly Australia’s commitment to freedom of political comunication”, in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

They’re being coordinated by Carmela Baranowska, as part of a broader petition started on the ABC’s website and incorporating more than 500 signatures.

The petition has been signed by:

  1. Carmela Baranowska – director, journalist
  2. Sharon Connolly – producer
  3. Bree Mckilligan – filmmaker
  4. Jono Van Hest – director
  5. Sarah Zadeh – filmmaker
  6. Joan Robinson – director
  7. Kerry Negara – director, producer
  8. Rebecca McLean – director
  9. Daryl Dellora – director, producer
  10. Sharyn Prentice – producer
  11. Fabio Cavadini – director, producer
  12. Mandy King – director, producer
  13. Sally Ingleton – documentary filmmaker
  14. Trish FitzSimons – filmmaker
  15. Georgia Wallace-Crabbe – producer, director
  16. Lana Schwarcz – puppeteer, filmmaker
  17. Tim Anderson – filmmaker
  18. Nick Torrens – director, producer
  19. Deborah Szapiro – producer
  20. Liz Burke – producer
  21. Nicholas Hansen – director, producer
  22. Philippa Campey – filmmaker
  23. Marsha Emerman – director, producer
  24. Trevor Blainey – producer
  25. Gil Scrine – distributor and director
  26. Steven Robinson – editor
  27. Carmel McAloon – producer
  28. Diane Charleson – director, writer
  29. Melanie Sandford – documentary film editor
  30. Graeme Isaac – film producer
  31. Julie Marlow – producer
  32. Tom Zubrycki – director, producer
  33. Dione Gilmour – producer
  34. John Moore – producer, director
  35. Jeni Thornley – documentary filmmaker, lecturer
  36. Maree Delofski – filmmaker
  37. Atalanti Dionysus – filmmaker
  38. Sarah Barton – writer, director
  39. Dr Trevor Graham – director, producer
  40. Karin Altmann – writer
  41. John Hughes – director, producer
  42. Catherine Gough-Brady – director, producer
  43. Kim Beamish – producer, director
  44. Dr Fiona Cochrane – doctor, filmmaker
  45. Sue Maslin – producer
  46. Leonie Dickinson – director, producer
  47. Roslyn Baker – producer
  48. Ruth Cullen – producer, director, head of documentary AFTRS
  49. Steve Westh – director
  50. Russ Hermann – filmmaker and sound recordist
  51. Josephine Wright – filmmaker
  52. Helen Gaynor – director
  53. Tosca Looby – director
  54. Alison Wotherspoon – filmmaker
  55. Steve Warne – factual development manager, EP
  56. Di Cousens – director, producer
  57. Linette Etheridge – filmmaker
  58. John Lewis – producer
  59. Adrian Herring – producer, director
  60. Peter Tapp – editor
  61. Cath South – producer, director
  62. Rosie Jones – director, editor
  63. Helen Gaynor – director
  64. David Curl – filmmaker
  65. Stewart Carter – filmmaker
  66. Pat Fiske – director, producer
  67. David Tiley – documentary writer and journalist
  68. Helen Barrow – filmmaker
  69. Margot Nash – filmmaker
  70. Annie O’Hanlon – writer
  71. Sam de Silva – filmmaker
  72. Kim Anning – producer
  73. Michael Ney – director, producer
  74. Lori Flekser – producer
  75. Stefan Moore – producer, director
  76. Susan Lambert – producer, director
  77. Shirley Shackleton – award-winning author
  78. Anne Tsoulis – writer, filmmaker
  79. Kerry O’Rourke – writer, producer
  80. Joost Den Hartog – Executive Director, Australian International Documentary Conference
  81. Andrew Lowenthal – director Engagemedia
  82. Siân Darling – Producer, Director, General Manager, Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
  83. Penelope McDonald – director, producer
  84. Kathleen Cameron – filmmaker

Carmela Baranowska can be contacted at 0408 210 769.

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