Peter Faiman
{{Short description|Australian film director}}
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|birth_name = Peter Leonard Faiman
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|birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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|yearsactive = 1971–present
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Peter Leonard Faiman[https://books.google.com/books?id=kLkxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Peter+Faiman%22+born Biographical Data Peter Faiman in: The Bulletin, 6240-6248, J. Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 2000, P 32] AM{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/883121|title=Faiman, Peter, AM|publisher=It's an Honour|accessdate=6 March 2012}} (born 1944) is an Australian television producer with experience in film, live television and events. He has had a long-standing working relationship with the Nine Network.
Biography
Faiman was born in Melbourne. He directed/produced the Paul Hogan Show and the Graham Kennedy and Don Lane shows{{cite web|url=http://www.tradeskills.com.au/documents/Factsheet-%20SkillsOne%20television.pdf|title=Peter Fairman, AM Biography|publisher=SkillsOne Television|accessdate=10 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112015125/http://www.tradeskills.com.au/documents/Factsheet-%20SkillsOne%20television.pdf|archive-date=12 November 2009|url-status=dead}} for about six years of its eight-and-a-half-year run.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265363/|title=Peter Faiman|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=10 March 2010}} He also produced a show hosted by Bert Newton and one by Ernie Sigley. In 1981, he was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia in the 1981 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the media, particularly in the field of television production.
Faiman was involved in several Rupert Murdoch projects, including in the UK as creative and management consultant at BSkyB, and in the US at the Fox Network, where he produced the Emmy Award-winning news magazine program The Reporters and A Current Affair in New York City. He went on to become Vice President of Fox Circle Productions and later President of Programs and Production at 20th Century Fox Television in Los Angeles. He guided the launch of the FX Network in New York in 1994, and was the coordinating director for the opening and closing broadcasts of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on behalf of the Sydney Olympic Broadcasting Organisation (SOBO).{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19880901&id=vUYVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7JYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3875,258337 |publisher=The Age|date=1 September 1988|last=McNamara|first=Marie|accessdate=10 March 2010|title=Staging the Olympics in the best of style}}
Faiman directed the 1986 blockbuster film Crocodile Dundee, and the 1991 American comedy Dutch, which was a box office disappointment. He also produced the animated feature FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
Since returning to Australia in 2002, he has been a program consultant for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, acting as a consulting producer on Strictly Ballroom, Spicks and Specks and The Pet Show. Faiman also helped conceptualise the Webby Award-winning multi-platform project SkillsOne.
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Category:Film directors from Melbourne
Category:Australian film directors
Category:Australian television producers
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:People educated at University High School, Melbourne
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