Chris Kennedy (1 December 1948 – 27 August 2013) was an Australian AFI Award-winning film director, film writer, producer and novelist. He owned the company, Oilrag Productions and Oillamp Books. Kennedy was a three-time Australian Film Institute Awards nominee and an Australian Writer's Guild Award winner.The website of Chris Kennedy – 3 time AFI award nominee
. Retrieved 25 January 2008. He made his first film ''Glass'', a low budget thriller, in 1989 and followed it up with '' This Won't Hurt a Bit'', in 1993. During the 1990s he made ''

Doing Time for Patsy Cline ''Doing Time for Patsy Cline'' is a 1997 Australian film starring Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, and Matt Day, and directed by Chris Kennedy. Plot Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father's sheep farm in a remote Austral ...

'' and the following decade, '' A Man's Gotta Do''.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p270 He initially trained and qualified as a dentist and later studied at film schoolInterview with Chris Kennedy, 12 November 1998
accessed 19 October 2012 In 2011 he added novel writing to his range of creative pursuits. Chris Kennedy died from a heart attack on 27 August 2013.

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'' (1989) * '' This Won't Hurt a Bit'' (1993) * ''

'' (1997) * '' A Man's Gotta Do'' (2003) * '' Made in Australia'' (2011) (Print)

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Oil Rag Productions and Oil Lamp Books
– Chris Kennedy's company 1948 births 2013 deaths 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian novelists Australian dentists Australian film directors Australian film producers Australian male novelists Australian screenwriters Australian male screenwriters 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian male writers 20th-century dentists {{Australia-film-director-stub