Lian Lunson is an Australian actress who became an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
She has also written a novel.
She was born in Ned Kelly Country in Australia.
She moved to Los Angeles in 1987 after working as an actress in Australia.
Her production company is based in LA and is called Horse Pictures.
She made a documentary in 1997 about Willie Nelson for the TV channel PBS.
She also made a documentary about the poet and singer / songwriter Leonard Cohen, called.
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man.
In 2006, she was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award for her work on this film.
She has a feature film in pre-production based on her own novel.
The film is called The Boom Boom Room.
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Michael Hutchence was flying high as the lead singer of the legendary rock band INXS until his untimely death in 1997. Richard Lowenstein’s documentary examines Hutchence’s deeply felt life through his many loves and demons.
A Documentary feature film directed by Lian Lunson celebrating the late Kate McGarrigle.
Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and times. The interview is interspersed with archive photos and exuberant praise and live perfomances from an eclectic mix of musicians, including: Jarvis Cocker, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, ANOHNI, The Handsome Family and U2's Bono and The Edge.
The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy suburb, live a ragtag collection of outcasts and don't-wanna-bes who survive on a diet of old TV space films, drugs and good music. And the satellite SKYLAB could crash through their roof at any moment...
A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control drugs that have been tested on unknowing civilians, and he becomes involved with the scientist's daughter, who is trying to clear her father's name.