John Feeney (August 10, 1922 - December 6, 2006) was a New Zealand-born director of documentary films. He worked with the New Zealand National Film Unit, National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and made films and did photography in Egypt. He was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Feeney was born in Ngaruawahia and attended at Victoria University. During the Second World War he served as a lieutenant in the Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve, escaping fro...
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John Feeney (August 10, 1922 - December 6, 2006) was a New Zealand-born director of documentary films. He worked with the New Zealand National Film Unit, National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and made films and did photography in Egypt. He was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Feeney was born in Ngaruawahia and attended at Victoria University. During the Second World War he served as a lieutenant in the Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve, escaping from Singapore and taking part in the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. He then served as a research assistant with the War History Branch of the Navy Department in Wellington until 1948.
His New Zealand film credits include Legend of the Wanganui River and Hot Earth.
Feeney directed ten NFB productions 1954 to 1963, working most often with producer Tom Daly. Most of his NFB films focused on the Canadian Arctic and the Inuit.
In 1958, Feeney received his first nomination for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for The Living Stone, about...
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