Ian Darling AO is an award winning documentary filmmaker. He has made two films about adventurer and explorer Jon Muir; Alone Across Australia and Suzy & The Simple Man. He recently directed The Final Quarter, a film about the booing of AFL footballer Adam Goodes. His other credits include a documentary about homeless people, The Oasis (which won the AFI Award for Best Direction in a Documentary and was a Walkley finalist), Paul Kelly: Stories of Me, winner of the Film Critics Award about the legendary Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, In the Company of Actors, and Woodstock for Capitalists among others. Darling was the founder and Chair of Good Pitch Australia, and the Documentary Australia Foundation, a philanthropic initiative supporting the documentary film industry in Australia. He is currently Chair of The Caledonia Foundation, and has been Chair of the Sydney Theatre Company and the STC Foundation, and a Director of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Darling received the Byron Kennedy Award for innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence at the 2018 AACTA Awards. In the same year he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia.
