Robert Connolly
Writer, Director and Producer, Melbourne

Robert Connolly is the Australian writer and director of the feature films “The Bank”, “Three Dollars”, and most recently “Balibo” (2009). He is also the producer of the award-winning films, “The Boys” and “Romulus, My Father”. For the last 15 years, Connolly, together with John Maynard, has headed the production company ARENAFILM in Australia. ARENAFILM is dedicated to producing high quality cinema with a political focus and social themes, and has introduced to world audiences directors such as Jane Campion, Vincent Ward, Rowan Woods and Richard Roxburgh. Connolly received a Centenary Medal for services to the Australian Film Industry in 2001 and was part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2020 ideas summit in 2008 in Canberra. He was recently appointed to the new board of Screen Australia, the pre-eminent screen funding institution in Australia.