Anna Brownfield
b. December 1, 1971, Australia

BIOGRAPHY:   Since graduating from RMIT Media Arts with honours, award winning feminist erotic filmmaker, Anna Brownfield, has gained extensive media attention for the originality of her work and she has appeared on ABC TV's 'Mondo Thingo', and 'The 10.30 Slot', JJJ, SBS, RRR, Triple MMM and ABC radio. Articles about her work have appeared in The Bulletin, Cleo, Cosmo, IF magazine, Desktop magazine, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and numerous street press publications.

Her work has screened at numerous festivals, both here and overseas, including the International Women's Conference 1995 (Beijing), WOW Film Festival (Sydney), Westspace Artist's Gallery (Melbourne), Artrage (Perth) and elsewhere.

Her film The Money Shot was chosen to close the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) in 2005. She cleaned up the MUFF awards winning Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Male Lead. The film is now available through Accent Underground.

CRITICAL OVERVIEW:   Anna Brownfield's work deals with the issue of male and female gazes, sexuality and sensuality, pushing the boundaries and redefining the depiction of sex and nudity in cinema. Coming from an experimental and art film background, she has progressively moved more and more into narrative film, while retaining a unique and highly arresting style.

FILMOGRAPHY:

	Object

Pedestal (1991, 3 mins, Super 8)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

Merry-Go-Around (1992, 1 min, Super 8)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

Self Portrait (1992, 1 min, Super 8)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

Sarah (1992, 2 mins, Super 8)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

In Between 12 and 1 (1992, 1 min, Super 8)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

Retrain (1992, 3 mins, Super 8)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

	Tainted Love

Object (1993, 1 min, VHS)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

Playing (1993, 6 mins, 16mm)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

Only in Your Dreams, Honey! (1995, 1 min, Hi-8)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

Witch Way (1996, 12 mins, 16mm)
Director, Writer

Do You Want to See My Sausage? (1998, 3 mins, Mini DV)
Director, Editor

Tainted Eden (1998, 20 mins, High Band U-Matic)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

	Only in Your Dreams, Honey!

Simone's Poisonous Plant Tour (1999, 5 mins, Mini DV, documentary)
Producer, Director, Editor

The Money Shot (2002, 78 mins, Mini DV)
Producer, co-Director and writer with Lance Petrie, Editor

Punk as F.A.C. (2002, 10 mins, Mini DV, documentary)
Producer, Co-Director with Sarah Brownfield, Editor

3 Drunken Nights in NY (2003, 15 mins, Mini DV, documentary)
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor

The Band (2006, 90 mins, HD)
Director, Co-Producer with Aer Agrey, Editor

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:

	The Money Shot

1998 EROS - #4, page 8

1999 IF Magazine - July, pages 65-66

Revolver -November, page 54

The AGE - November, Short Cuts, page 24

2004 The AGE - A3- cover story, page 4-5

Cleo- July, page 134

EROS - Vol 4 No 1, pages 64-65

EROS - Vol 4 No 2, page 46

	The Band

2005 The AGE, 26 August 2005, page 15

Beat Magazine, Issue 969, Page 20

Inpress Magazine, Issue 874, Page 66

Forte Magazine, 30-13 July 2005, page 30

Cosmopolitan - May

Desktop - May page 21

Desktop - Jan, pages 36-38

2006 The Bulletin, 23 May, page 30-33

	Witch Way

2008 Princesses and Pornstars, Author: Emily Maguire, P 141,146-146, 153 -154, 157 -159. Publisher: The text publishing house.

The Porn Report. Author: Katherine Albury and Catharine Lumby P 123 -124 Publisher: Melbourne University Press

WEB:

New wave erotica: an interview with Anna Brownfield, Pleasure Activism Australia

Chick Porn, sex.com.au

Poison Apple Productions

Hungry Films

Contact Anna Brownfield

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