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  1. He founded VeryMuchSo productions in January 2001, based in Sheffield. In 2002, Gordon worked with Nicholas Bonner of Koryo Tours to bring the seven surviving members of the 1966 North Korea national football team to Britain. The resulting film, The Game of Their Lives won the 2003 Royal Television Society award for best sports documentary.

  2. Daniel Gordon is a British documentary film director known for his documentaries on sports and North Korea.

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    Background

    Goodes, an Aboriginal Australian of Adnyamathanha and Narungga heritage, was drafted by the Sydney Swans in the 1997 AFL Draft and went on to have a successful career with the Swans, being awarded a number of accolades for his performance including the AFL Rising Star award in 1999, the Brownlow Medal (2003 and 2006), the Bob Skilton Medal (2003, 2006 and 2011), and All Australian selection (2003, 2006, 2009 and 2011). In 2014 he was named Australian of the Year in recognition of his communit...

    The film

    The Australian Dream tells the story of Goodes' life, from before he became a professional footballer through to his later career as an activist for Indigenous rights in Australia. It includes archival footageof as well as recent interviews with a range of Australians, including Indigenous and non-Indigenous people – politicians, sportspeople, politicians, media commentators and Grant himself. With Grant commenting on or explaining each segment of the film, it is only at the end that the titl...

    The film looks broadly at the part played by race and identity in Australian history and today's society.It questions "what it means to be Australian" and "If the Australian Dream is rooted in racism, what can be done to redefine it for the next generation?".

    The Australian Dream was written by the Aboriginal Australian journalist Stan Grant, and directed by British director Daniel Gordon.The person at the centre of the themes explored in the film, footballer Adam Goodes, participated in the making of the film, as did most of the rest of the cast. It was co-created by British production company Passion ...

    The film had its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) on 3 August 2019,and was released in Australian cinemas on 22 August 2019. It was also presented at the Toronto (TIFF 2019) (5 to 15 September 2019), Telluride Film Festival (31 September–2 October 2019), BFI London (2–13 October 2019), International Documentary Fil...

    The film was among the best-reviewed, most-publicised Australian films of 2019. The film's website cites five-star ratings by the Herald Sun and Student Edge, and four and a half from The Age and Switch. The Guardian gives the film four stars. Like several other reviewers, it makes mention of the other 2019 documentary film on the same topic, The F...

    The film earned a 10-minute standing ovation after its first showing at the Melbourne International Film Festival, which is very unusual, but it did not do well at the box office in Australia after its release in late August. This was attributed partly to the earlier release of another documentary on the same topic, The Final Quarter, partly to the...

    2019 AACTA Award - Best Feature Documentary
    2019 Walkley Documentary Award
    2020 - Best Documentary - Asian Academy Creative Awards
    Grant, Stan (3 September 2019). "The Australian Dream tells Adam Goodes' story but its message is universal". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
    Quinn, Karl (2 August 2019). "The Australian Dream: Watch Adam Goodes doc with an open mind, and feel hope". The Sydney Morning Herald.
    The Australian Dream at IMDb
    The Australian Dream at Rotten Tomatoes
    • Cornel Wilczek
    • Good Thing Productions, Passion Pictures
  4. May 6, 2016 · We spoke to director Daniel Gordon about the harrowing process of interviewing the families of the 96, and why he included the voices of police officers in the story. ... The film was released in ...

    • Ellie Mae O'hagan
  5. Jun 16, 2020 · The Australian Dream is a vital documentary about racism in sport. The Australian Dream by director Daniel Gordon, which tells the story of indigenous Aussie Rules footballer Adam Goodes ...

  6. Daniel Gordon is a British documentary film director known for his documentaries on sports and North Korea. Gordon previously worked for Sky Sports and Chrysalis. He founded VeryMuchSo productions in January 2001, based in Sheffield. He wrote two books on Sheffield Wednesday FC. In December 2001, he was nominated for a BAFTA for producing and directing . Gordon is currently working on Billion ...