What would you do if a voice suddenly came into your head and saved your life? This is what happened to award winning writer, producer and film director Bill Bennett. Join us as we talk about his beautiful documentary film called PGS- Personal Guidance System that shares his journey in seeking answers to the mystery of our intuition.
Bill Bennett is a writer, producer and director of feature films and documentaries. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he’s made sixteen feature films, four dramatized documentaries and five feature length documentaries. His feature films have won numerous awards, both in his home country of Australia, and internationally. In Australia, Bill has won Australian Film Institute Awards and Australian Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Writer. He’s had three major retrospectives – at the Chicago Institute of Art’s Film Centre in the US, at the Hof Film Festival in Germany, and at the Mumbai Film Festival in India. His films have been distributed through most of the major Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal, and the Samuel Goldwyn Co. In his early television work he won two Logies – Australia’s Emmy – for Television Reporter of the Year, and Most Outstanding Documentary. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Screen Studies at one of Australia’s largest universities, Queensland University of Technology.