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Nigel Buesst (born 30 April 1938) is an Australian filmmaker from Melbourne. After graduating B.Com in 1960 from Melbourne University he headed overseas to London and worked as an assistant editor at Shepperton Studios.
Nigel Buesst was born in 1938 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Dead Easy (1970), Bonjour Balwyn (1971) and Carlton + Godard = Cinema (2003).
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- Nigel Buesst
On the occasion of his 80th birthday on April 30, 2018, we pay tribute to Melbourne film persona Nigel Buesst. Buesst has been active on the Melbourne scene since the early 1960s, as filmmaker, teacher, festival director.
Film maker Nigel Buesst, who lived in Barkly Street in the 1960s, included images of the partly-demolished Barkly Terrace in his 1969 documentary The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor.
Nigel Buesst (born 30 April 1938) is an Australian filmmaker from Melbourne. After graduating B.Com in 1960 from Melbourne University he headed overseas to London and worked as an assistant editor at Shepperton Studios.On returning to Melbourne in 1962 he worked for some months at the ABC's Ripponlea newsroom, and freelanced as a cameraman on ...
A young Aboriginal fighter, played by trained boxer Michael Karpaney, is torn between his career, his mates & the demands of a group of students campaigning for Aboriginal rights. Featuring some fine performances, the film’s greatest asset is its unflinching & unsentimental gaze on the difficulties a blackfella must face in Australian society.
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Nigel Buesst. b. April 30, 1938, Melbourne, Australia. BIOGRAPHY: After graduating B Com from Melbourne Uni in 1960, Nigel Buesst sought work in the British film industry. He worked at Shepperton Studios as an assistant editor and on various other freelance assignments before returning to Melbourne in 1962 to work for the ABC at Ripponlea.
