James Bradley has worked in film and TV for 40 years, variously as a writer, producer, director and editor of numerous documentary films and series. He has a reputation for telling powerful stories and a passion for cross-cultural collaboration. He co-directed 50 Years of Silence which won the AFI Best Documentary Award and produced and directed the multi award-winning Ochre and Ink, the story of Chinese-Australian artist Zhou Xiaoping and his 23-year collaboration with Aboriginal artists.
His many editing credits include a slate of award-winning Australian Indigenous projects including the dramatic feature Radiance and documentaries Dhakiyarr vs The King, Mr Patterns, 5 Seasons, In My Father’s Country, art + soul and Occupation: Native.
James also produced the documentaries Destiny In Alice, Blown Away, and Under a Pagan Sky for ABC TV, and has taught film production and editing at Metro Screen, the University of Western Sydney, AFTRS, and Macquarie University.
James shared the 1994 AFI Best Documentary Award for 50 Years of Silence and won the 2005 AFI Non-Feature Editing Award for Mr Patterns. And in 2019 he was presented with the prestigious Stanley Hawes Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Documentary Sector in Australia.
