cinematographer
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Hobart
Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
as a cameraman, and the following year was sent to cover the
1967 Tasmanian fires
The 1967 Tasmanian fires were an Australian natural disaster which occurred on 7 February 1967, an event which came to be known as the Black Tuesday bushfires. They were the most deadly bushfires that Tasmania has ever experienced, leaving 62 pe ...
. His work earned Visnews' award of Cameraman of the Month.
He accompanied
Mike Willesee
Michael Robert Willesee, (29 June 1942 – 1 March 2019) was an Australian television journalist, interviewer and presenter.
Willesee was the son of politician senator Don Willesee; Mike first came to prominence in 1967 as a reporter for the ...
on an assignment to Vietnam and Cambodia for
Four Corners
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in the early 1970s. He returned to Saigon for the evacuation of Australian personnel and was one of the last passengers on the last RAAF plane out of South Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon. He returned to Asia as a freelancer in the 1990s, based in Hong Kong.
He did much work for the SBS program Dateline in the period 2006–2016. He was twice awarded a United Nations Media Peace Award — for his work on SBS documentaries ''Good Morning Vietnam'' and ''Chad – Crisis in The Desert''.
In the mid-1960s Brill and
Peter Donnelly
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joined the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS), founding the Tasmanian branch of the society. In 2008, he was inducted into the ACS Hall of Fame.
He was made a Member of the
Order of Australia
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in the
2017 Australia Day Honours
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Radio National
Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide public service broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). From 1947 until 1985, the network was known as ABC Radio 2.
History
1937: Predecessors an ...
Late Night Live on 16 June 2003, is available as podcast.
He was the subject of the book ''The Man Who Saw Too Much: David Brill, Combat Cameraman'' by John Little; Hachette Australia (2010) ISBN 978-0733627477
He was the subject of a documentary film ''David Brill's Story On the Frontlines'' (2021), available to watch via
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