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Papua New Guinea

Filmmaker · Papua New Guinea

Chris Owen

Died in 2018

Chris Owen was born in 1944 in Birmingham, England. Having arrived in Papua New Guinea in 1973 as a cameraman for the tourist office, he joined the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies in Port Moresby in 1976, where he founded the ethnographic film unit and stayed until 1999. He directed at least sixteen films and collaborated on more than thirty others. The Papua New Guinea government made him an officer of the Order of Logohu in 2010. He died in Canberra on 9 March 2018.

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