Australian Film Critics Association - About Us

Jonathan Dawson is a film writer/director and broadcaster who has worked on Australian television series, documentaries and corporate videos. He has published widely on film, cultural theory and policy, architecture and design. He presented the ABC TV film show Cuts. Since 1972 he has been a film reviewer for ABC Metro stations. He was appointed as the first Chair of Film Queensland, and is on the Brisbane International Animation Festival Board. He’s a major essayist for the award winning Encyclopedia of Documentary Film and writes for Senses of Cinema, the Hobart Mercury and a popular culture column.
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Bruce Paterson studied a little film to stay sane during a law degree, wrote reviews, got out of the critic's armchair briefly in the 1990s to enter a few Super 8 film competitions (and win one), and is now comfortably ensconsed for an exciting new millennium of film. He was Treasurer of AFCA in 2006/07 and Secretary in 2007/08. Tune into his reviews at Cinephilia.

Bernard Hemingway’s earliest film memories are of swashbucklers, musicals and sword-and-sandal epics. In the 1970s he discovered auteur cinema before the Golden Age of Easy Riders and Raging Bulls swept him off his feet. Then came the likes of Tarkovsky, Fellini, Kurosawa, Buñuel and Bergman and the abandonment of the real and present world was complete. The musical remains his favourite genre. You can read more about his views on film here.