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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: CHRIS NOONANBest known as director and co-writer of the massively successful Babe, for which he was nominated for two Academy Awards, Chris Noonan's involvement in film began at school where, at age 16, he directed Could It Happen Here?, a spoof on high school life. The film was a prizewinner in the Sydney Film Festival's short film competition and was screened on national television.
While at school he became involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement, earned pocket money by setting up a business making and selling jewellery to Sydney shops, and became Chairman of a Secondary Students' Union which, among other things, established a weekend school to show the Education Department how it should be done.
On leaving school in 1970, he worked for Film Australia as a production assistant, assistant editor, production manager and assistant director. On weekends during this 2 year period, he wrote and directed the short black comedy Garbo, funded by a government grant.
In 1973, he won one of the 12 places in the Australian Film & Television School's initial one year directors' course with fellow students Gillian Armstrong and Phillip Noyce. At the school he made three films including the much acclaimed cinema short Bulls. In 1979, he set up his own production company and in '79-80 produced and directed Stepping Out, the prize-winning documentary about a theatrical group of mentally disabled people which was sold to television around the world.
He then turned to drama, co-writing and co-directing two major Kennedy Miller mini-series, The Cowra Breakout (1985) and Vietnam (1987). In 1988, he directed the telefeature The Riddle of the Stinson for Kennedy Miller and in 1989, the controversial Police State for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Noonan has served as President of the Australian Screen Directors' Association and as Chairman of the Australian Film Commission.
As Executive Producer of Feeling Sexy, Noonan was 'on call' as a consultant for Davida Allen in her dual roles as Writer and Director.
Director: Davida Allen
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