Shades Of Hoop Dreamsdown Under Australian documentary filmmaker Bob Connolly has lashed out at the Australian Film Institute for failing to nominate a hit documentary for its 1997 awards. Connolly, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1983 for his feature-length film, First Contact, and whose film, Rats in the Ranks, won the Australian Film Critics Circle award as the best feature documentary at this year's Sydney Film Festival, charged the AFI with elitism. It's not didactic. The characters are not societal victims. There are no particular injustices to be redressed, no ideological cause to be ringingly endorsed.
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