Chris Kennedy (filmmaker)

Chris Kennedy (1 December 1948 – 27 August 2013) was an Australian AFI Award winning film director, film writer, producer and novelist. He owned the company, Oilrag Productions and Oillamp Books. Kennedy was a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee and an Australian Writer's Guild Award winner.
He made his first film "Glass", a low budget thriller, in 1989 and followed it up with "This Won't Hurt a Bit", in 1993.
During the 1990s he made "Doing Time for Patsy Cline" and the following decade, "A Man's Gotta Do".
He initially trained as a dentist and later studied at film school In 2011 he added novel writing to his range go creative pursuits.
Chris Kennedy died from a heart attack on 27 August 2013.