News

 May 2015

Zed Media welcome highly respected and award winning director DON FEATHERSTONE to the production team.

Don has produced, written and directed over forty highly regarded full length documentaries across a range of genres. His films include; ‘Singapore 1942’, ‘Kokoda’, ‘The One Percenters’, ‘The Beach’, ‘The Maitland Wonder’, ‘An Imaginary Life’ and the seminal TV Drama ‘Babakuieria’. He has made films about John Le Carré, David Hockney, Jack Lemmon, Alan Bleasedale, Tom Keneally and Brett Whiteley.

In 2014 Don directed the outstanding ABC series “The War That Changed Us”

His films have been screened worldwide and he has won many major international awards including; Best Documentary Hot Docs, a Banff Rockie, a Chicago Gold Hugo, a Chicago Gold Plaque, Best Arts Documentary San Francisco, Special Jury Prize San Francisco, a U.N. Media Peace Prize and three New York Silver Awards. Don has been nominated for a BAFTA award, an International Emmy and five AFI awards.

Don, who is a graduate of the Swinburne Film & TV School has also made films on staff for the BBC’s documentaries department, London Weekend Television’s current affairs department and the prestigious arts series ‘The South Bank Show’.

He joins former ABC TV producer and independent film-maker and now highly acclaimed author and historian Will Davies on the production team.