Benjamin Gilmour is a German Australian author and filmmaker, best known for writing and directing the film Jirga (2018).
Career
Paramedic
Gilmour became a paramedic around 1999.[1][2] He has worked in public health development in low-middle income nations.[3]
Writing
Gilmour has written several non-fiction books.[1][4]
Warrior Poets: Guns, Movie-making and the Wild West of Pakistan, first published in 2008,[5] is an account of the making of his feature film, Son of a Lion, but it also describes much about the Pashtun people of the North-West Frontier Province and in particular the town of Darra Adam Khel, where guns are made.[6][7]
Paramedico - Around the World by Ambulance (2012), a "collection of adventures by Australian paramedic Benjamin Gilmour as he works and volunteers on ambulances around the world".[8][9]
The Gap: A paramedic's summer on the edge (2019) is a memoir recounting incidents in a group of paramedics' work in the lead-up to Christmas one summer.[10][11]
Cameras and Kalashnikovs: The Making of Jirga (2018) is about making the film Jirga in Afghanistan.[12]
He is also the author of an illustrated book for children The Travel Bug (2011), and two volumes of poetry, The Song of a Hundred Miles and Night Swim.[13]
Films
Son of a Lion (2007) was his first film, a documentary filmed in Pakistan as he lived among the Pashtun tribes of the Northwest Frontier Province.[14][15][16]
Paramedico (2011) is another documentary film, released at the same time as his book of the same name. It was nominated for the Foxtel Best Documentary Award at the Sydney Film Festival.[17][18]
^Gilmour, Benjamin (6 November 2009), Son of a Lion (Drama, War), Australian Film Commission, Carolyn Johnson Films, Leapfrog Productions, retrieved 10 October 2021
