Chris Kennedy (filmmaker)

Christopher Kennedy (1 December 1948 – 27 August 2013) was an Australian AFI Award-winning film director, writer, producer, and novelist.

[1] He initially trained and qualified as a dentist and later studied at[2] the Swinburne Film and Television School in Melbourne.

There, he was dubbed one of a "Gang of Four", along with Paul Goldman, John Hillcoat, and Evan English, owing to their pranks.

[3] Kennedy made his first film Glass, a low budget thriller, in 1989 and followed it up with This Won't Hurt a Bit, in 1993.

[1] Kennedy was a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee[which?]