Australia

After making a number of award-winning powerful social documentaries Bentley Dean teamed up with Martin Butler in 2009 to make Contact – a film about the last desert peoples in Australia. They made the four-part documentary series First Footprints about Australia’s 50,000-year Aboriginal history in 2013. Their 2015 drama, Tanna, received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.

Filmography

Anatomy of a Coup (2002)
The President Versus David Hicks (2004)
The Siege (2007)
A Well-Founded Fear (2008)
Contact (2010)
First Footprints (2013)
Tanna (2015)
A Sense of Self (2016)