Person
Jeni Thornley
Directing
Biography
Jeni Thornley is a documentary filmmaker, writer and film valuer. Her poetic essay documentaries: Maidens (1978), collaborative feature film and Penguin book, For Love or Money: a history of women and work in Australia (1983), To the Other Shore (1996) and Island Home Country (2008) are landmark films in Australian independent and feminist cinema, widely distributed and also broadcast on ABC TV and SBS. Her films are available online and DVD via beamafilm, Ronin Films and Anandi Films.
Known for

Maidens
Producer
Apartments
Cinematography

For Love or Money
Director

Breathing Under Water
Script Editor

To The Other Shore
Director

Thanks Girls and Goodbye
Script Consultant

Senses of Cinema
Self

Island Home Country
Narrator

Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
Self

A Film for Discussion
1973
Filmography
- 2023Memory Film: A Filmmaker's DiarySelf
- 2022Senses of CinemaSelf
- 2008Island Home CountryNarrator
- 1996To The Other ShoreDirector
- 1993Breathing Under WaterScript Editor
- 1988Thanks Girls and GoodbyeScript Consultant
- 1983For Love or MoneyDirector
- 1978MaidensProducer
- 1977ApartmentsCinematography
- 1974Still LifeDirector
- 1973A Film for Discussion
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