Jan Preston
This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Jan Preston in a principal role. It is not a comprehensive filmography.
In a production role:
Frame Up. Who Bombed the Hilton, Who Didn’t? (1983) — composer
Filmmaker Irina Dunn presents a case for the innocence of the three Ananda Marga members convicted of conspiracy to murder the leader of the National Front in 1978. ...
Homelands: View from the Edge (1993) — composer
This documentary by filmmaker Tom Zubrycki follows the Robles family – Carlos, Maria and their four daughters – who came to Melbourne as refugees from El Salvador in…
Billal (1996) — composer
Sixteen-year-old Lebanese-Australian Billal is struck by a car in the aftermath of fighting between Anglo–Australian and Lebanese youths on a state housing estate in south-west Sydney. Billal is…
Emily’s Eyes (1998) — composer
Emily Wu, born with hydrocephalus, is hearing impaired and has sight in just one eye. The documentary traces the first five years of Emily’s life. Her parents and…
Facing the Demons (1999) — composer
Young Michael Marslew was shot dead in an armed robbery of a Pizza Hut in Jannali NSW. The four offenders were jailed for up to 18 years. In…
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 3: I Reckon I’m an Average Australian (2000) — composer
Kevin and Margaret have four young children. They are a working couple, a rare phenomenon in the late 1960s when they first appeared on Chequerboard (1969–75). They were…
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 5: You Can’t Have A Child That’s Ugly (2000) — composer
In 1969, the ABC documentary program Chequerboard, made a program about child performers. Thirty-one years later, two of them agreed to be filmed for Chequerboard Revisited.
In Limbo (2002) — composer
The documentary follows Australian-Vietnamese lawyer Hoi Trinh, as he attempts to secure Australian citizenship for 2,000 Vietnamese boat people who fled to the Philippines when the Vietnam War…
