Peter Butt
Peter Butt (born 1955) is a significant Australian documentary film maker. He mainly produces documentaries about lesser-known areas of 20th century Australian history.
Documentaries he has made include[1]:
- No Such a Place
- My Father, My Country (1988)
- The Liners (1996-7)
- Lies, Spies & Olympics (1999)
- The Battleships (1999)
- Fortress Australia (2001)
- Silent Storm (2003) [2]
- The Airships (2004)
Butt has often produced his works in conjunction with or with funding by Film Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and has also produced a number of short works under contract to the ABC, including several pieces for the A Big Country series. In 2006 he produced and directed alongside Daniel Montan in Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?, a documentary espousing a new theory on the Bogle-Chandler case. Which was Australias most watched documentary which won him an Australian Logie.
Fortress Australia was subject to a complaint to the ABC's Independent Complaints Review Panel. The complaint was rejected although the panel did find that the documentary was not balanced.[3]
Butt has now started on a film alongside Daniel Montana once more about the Harold Holt theory showing what happened before and after the dissapearence.
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