Person
Sally Aitken
Directing
Biography
Sally Aitken is an Australian documentary film and television director, writer and producer. She has been nominated for two Emmys: in 2018 at the International Emmy Award for Best Arts Programming for the documentary film David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, and at the 43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards for the documentary Playing With Sharks in 2022.
Known for
Colonial House
Director
Shark Beach with Chris Hemsworth
Director
David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema
Writer
The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook
Director
Playing with Sharks
Director
The Pool
Writer
The Week the Women Went
Producer
Books That Made Us
Director
Streets of Your Town
Writer
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Director
Filmography
- 2025Hummingbirds of HollywoodDirector
- 2025Every Little ThingDirector
- 2023Hot Potato: The Story of The WigglesProducer
- 2022Inconceivable: The Secret Business of Breeding HumansDirector
- 2021Books That Made UsDirector
- 2021Shark Beach with Chris HemsworthDirector
- 2021Playing with SharksDirector
- 2019The PoolWriter
- 2018Nolan: The Man and the MythWriter
- 2018The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain CookDirector
- 2017David Stratton's Stories of Australian CinemaWriter
- 2017David Stratton: A Cinematic LifeDirector
- 2016Streets of Your TownWriter
- 2015Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"Director
- 2011Au bonheur des dames, l'invention du grand magasinDirector
- 2008The Week the Women WentProducer
- 2006Warrior Empire: The Mughals of IndiaDirector
- 2004Colonial HouseDirector
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