Craig Boreham
Australian film producer
Craig Boreham is an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for his debut short film Transient, and the feature films Teenage Kicks (2016) and Lonesome (2022). His films focus on queer themes.
Early life and education
Craig Boreham graduated attended the University of Technology Sydney at the same time as future collaborator and friend, cinematographer Bonnie Elliott.
In 2008, he graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School with a Graduate Diploma in Directing (Fiction & Non Fiction).
Career
In February 2005 his short drama Transient, premiered in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2008, LesGaiCineMad and Fundación Triángulo in Madrid, Spain, programmed a retrospective of Boreham's short films titled True Cinema Poison.
Boreham's short film Drowning, with cinematography by Bonnie Elliott, had its Australian premiere at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in December 2009 at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Drowning starred Australian actors Miles Szanto, Xavier Samuel, and Tess Haubrich. Drowning was the prelude to film Teenage Kicks, also a collaboration with Elliott, starring Miles Szanto and Daniel Webber, It premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in 2016.
The public source identifies “Craig Boreham” as australian film producer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Craig, Boreham and Australian.
Why this record matters
A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Craig Boreham”, the useful work is to connect “australian film producer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.
Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5180756. VIAF identifies the subject as 56148570558124311987. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2022, 2008 and 2005.
Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.
- Identifying works and editions
- Tracing reception history
- Finding collection records
The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Craig Boreham”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Craig Boreham primary sources, Craig Boreham archive and Craig research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Craig Boreham”?
- Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
- How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Craig Boreham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.