David Parer

David Damien Parer AO ACS is an Australian natural history film maker, working in partnership with his wife and sound recordist, Elizabeth Parer-Cook.

[1] Parer was conscripted into the Australian Army to go to the Vietnam War in 1970, but he entered a Masters program to study physics in the Antarctic.

[1] The Parers' films have won over 130 Australian and international awards including the Golden Panda at Windscreen twice and three Emmy's.

[1] Parer received an Honorary Doctor of Science from Monash University, Melbourne 17 March 1989.

[6] His uncle was Academy Award-winning war cinematographer, Damien Peter Parer, who filmed Kokoda Front Line in 1944 in Papua New Guinea.