Anna Broinowski is a Walkley award-winning filmmaker and author who specialises in political and counter-cultural subjects. Her documentaries have screened around the world and include Please Explain! (SBS), Aim High in Creation! (ABC/Netflix), Forbidden Lie$ (MIFF/Palace) and Helen’s War (SBS/CBC/ZDF). Awards include 3 AFI/AACTAs, the Rome Festival “Cult” Prize, the Al Jazeera Golden Award, and the Writer’s Guild of America Best Screenplay. Anna’s two books are Please Explain: the rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson (2017), and The Director is the Commander (2015), printed in the US as Aim High in Creation! (2016) - about North Korean propaganda cinema. A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Anna has also worked as an actor, journalist and playwright. She has run film master-classes in Europe, North America, South Korea and Australia and serves as Vice-President, Documentary on the Australian Director’s Guild Board.

Anna Broinowski is an author and filmmaker who has been tracking the illicit, subversive and bizarre since her 1995 film on the Japanese cultural underground, Hell Bento!! Her films include Aim High in Creation! (about the North Korean propaganda film industry), Forbidden Lie$ (about hoax author Norma Khouri), Helen’s War (about anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott), Sexing the Label (about queer Sydney in the 1990s) and Pauline Hanson: Please Explain!, which screened on SBS in 2016. They’ve won stuff, including three AACTAs, a Walkley, the Rome Festival Cult prize, Best Film at Silverdocs USA, a NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the Writer’s Guild of America Best Nonfiction Screenplay and a Russian Film Critics’ prize shaped like an elephant. After covering Kim Jong Il in her first book, The Director is the Commander, and Senator Pauline Hanson in her second one, Please Explain, Anna is looking forward to not writing about politicians for a while.