Directing
Jane Oehr
Place of birth
Melbourne, Australia
Known for
Directing
Credits
6 titles
Jane Oehr travelled from Melbourne, Australia, to study overseas as an actress before joining BBC TV as a Trainee Director in London. There she made documentaries about the cinema including a film about French director, Agnes Varda. She returned to Australia to work as an independent director, making Tamu - The Guest about the life of Australian painter Donald Friend in Bali. Later Jane travelled through Niugini and the Trobriand Islands to direct Niugini Culture Shock which won the Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Film in 1975 at the Sydney Film Festival. Her next film, Stirring, is a controversial feature documentary about corporal punishment in a Sydney boy's school. It was banned from pu…
Known for
1.0As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.
Senses of Cinema
2022
NRA trilogy of stories set in and around Glebe (Sydney) examining the transition from school to uncertain future for three young people.
On the Loose
1985
Women open up about menstruation, childbirth and their bodies in this cathartic 1974 feminist documentary.
Seeing Red & Feeling Blue
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7.5An orphan girl seeks her true inheritance in this Australian TV movie. On an isolated Tasmanian mountain, 12-year-old Ada lives with her wealthy father Justus. Housekeeper Martha is plotting to secure the family fortune for herself. Ada is orphaned when her father is killed in a fall. Before he dies, he tells Ada to journey south to find her true inheritance. Together with Agnes, the housekeeper's stepdaughter, Ada sets out on a journey full of adventure.
More Winners: The Journey
1990
NRTea With Madame Clos is about an extraordinary woman in her extreme old age living in a small medieval village in South West France. Couched in the framework of a train journey, the filmmaker remembers her many encounters over four years with Madame Clos.
Tea With Madame Clos
2010
Film credits
Behind the camera
NRA trilogy of stories set in and around Glebe (Sydney) examining the transition from school to uncertain future for three young people.
On the Loose
1985
NRA trilogy of stories set in and around Glebe (Sydney) examining the transition from school to uncertain future for three young people.
On the Loose
1985
Women open up about menstruation, childbirth and their bodies in this cathartic 1974 feminist documentary.
Seeing Red & Feeling Blue
—
7.5An orphan girl seeks her true inheritance in this Australian TV movie. On an isolated Tasmanian mountain, 12-year-old Ada lives with her wealthy father Justus. Housekeeper Martha is plotting to secure the family fortune for herself. Ada is orphaned when her father is killed in a fall. Before he dies, he tells Ada to journey south to find her true inheritance. Together with Agnes, the housekeeper's stepdaughter, Ada sets out on a journey full of adventure.
More Winners: The Journey
1990
NRTea With Madame Clos is about an extraordinary woman in her extreme old age living in a small medieval village in South West France. Couched in the framework of a train journey, the filmmaker remembers her many encounters over four years with Madame Clos.
Tea With Madame Clos
2010