James ricketson biography
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James ricketson biography
James Ricketson
Australian film director (born 1949)
James Staniforth Ricketson is an Australian film director, known for the feature film Blackfellas. He became more widely known when he was charged with espionage for flying a drone in Cambodia in 2017.
Film career
Ricketson studied at the Australian Film and Television School and has made a number of features and documentaries.[3]
In 1973 Ricketson filmed and helped to organise Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the two north pylons of Sydney Harbour Bridge.
A short film of the walk was released on DVD with Man On Wire, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Petit's World Trade Center Twin Towers walk.[4]
Ricketson directed the feature films Third Person Plural (1978), Candy Regentag (1989), Blackfellas (1994).
His documentaries include Reflections (1973), Roslyn and Blagica Everyone Needs a Friend (1979), Born in Soweto (1994), Sleeping with Cambodia (1997), Backpacking Aus