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Australian film director
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Male
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Birth:
1944
Death:
9 March 2018
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Biography
Chris Owen (1944 – 9 March 2018) was an Australian filmmaker, who specialises in ethnographic documentary films about Papua New Guinea and its inhabitants.
He has served as director of the film unit of the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies in Port Moresby and has played a significant role in the creation of most documentaries about New Guinea since 1980.