David Parer
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| Gender | Male |
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| Spouse | Elizabeth Parer-Cook |
| Books | Platypus: World's Strangest Animal |
| Douglas Mawson, the Survivor | |
| Mawson 1972: Reflections 40 Years on | |
| Awards | AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary |
| AFI Award - Australian National Travel Association's Award For Travel Films | |
| Australian Film Institute Award for Best Documentary | |
| Australian Film Institute Award for Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film | |
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| ID | 875239 |
David Parer Life story
David Parer is an award-winning Australian natural history film maker. Parer was conscripted into the Australian Army to go to the Vietnam War in 1970, but he entered a Masters program to study physics in the Antarctic. Parer spent the summers of 1970 and 1972 in Antarctica studying cosmic rays at Mawson Base.
