death_date birth_place imagesize awards birth_date article_title name
27 august 2013 sydney 200x '' screenplay '' ' ` australian writers guild award for best original 1 december 1948 chris kennedy
 chris kennedy
chris kennedy

chris kennedy -lrb- 1 december 1948 -- 27 august 2013 -rrb- was an australian afi award winning film director , film writer , producer and novelist .
he owned the company , oilrag productions and oillamp books .
kennedy was a three-time australian film institute awards nominee and an australian writer 's guild award winner .
he made his first film `` glass '' , a low budget thriller , in 1989 and followed it up with `` this wo n't hurt a bit '' , in 1993 .
during the 1990s he made `` doing time for patsy cline '' and the following decade , `` a man 's got ta do '' .
he initially trained as a dentist and later studied at film school in 2011 he added novel writing to his range go creative pursuits .
chris kennedy died from a heart attack on 27 august 2013 .
