Gary Kildea

Gary Kildea is an Australian documentary film maker who has also lived and worked in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the UK. He has specialised in observational and ethnographic approaches and has often collaborated with anthropologists on film projects. He has held teaching positions in documentary film at the Australian National University, Canberra, and at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Some of his films as director are: The Great Chimbu Pig Festival (1972); Concerning the Lives of the People (1973); Trobriand Cricket – an ingenious response to colonialism (1975); Ileksen (1978); Celso and Cora – a Manila story (1984); Valencia Diary (1991); Man of Strings (1999); Koriam’s Law (2005).