Robert Nugent is a Canberra-based documentary film maker with a background in post-conflict development. Robert worked for eleven years with the United Nations in Afghanistan and Cambodia and has also undertaken assignments throughout Central and South East Asia as well as a World Bank range land project in Somalia. In Australia Nugent has produced documentaries on social issues such as the Stolen Generations and the children of prisoners. He won Best Student Film at the International Student Documentary Awards in Chicago in 2003 for a film he produced at AFTRS, The Road Home. In 2006, he travelled to Iraq as Official Cinematographer for the Australian War Memorial. Nugent's feature-length documentary End of the Rainbow, an elegiac portrait of the changes brought by the arrival of an industrial gold mine in a remote region of Guinea, West Africa, became the first Australian film to receive the First Appearance Award at the 2007 International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam.
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