For The Love Of Pets – Season 2
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Credit: Shooter / Producer Production Company: Context Media Executive Producers: Peter Jenetsky, Tim Clucas DOP: Robbie Davies Screened: Dec 2023 – CH9 (8 x 45mins) Description: Heartwarming & heartbreaking stories of people who devote their lives to animals in need, all for the love of pets. Filmed at the Kedron Veterinary Clinic as well as […]
Missing Persons Investigation
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Roles: Shooter / Producer Production Company: Southern Pictures Executive Producers: Laurie Critchley, Kurt Royan Screened: 8 x 45min CH9 Description: One Australian goes missing every fifteen minutes. Missing Persons Investigation is a blue-chip ob-doc series that takes audiences behind-the-scenes to join police investigators and forensic specialists working all over the country to find our missing […]
Hunted – Season 2
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Role: Embedded Fugitive Shooting Producer / Director Production Company: Endemol Shine Australia Director of Content: Marty Benson Executive Producer: Natalie Cattach Location: Melbourne Screened: CH10 2023 Characters: Jordan & Tharren Description: In this real-life game of cat and mouse, 18 ordinary Australians will go on the run from a team of expert Hunters. As paranoia […]
Gem Hunters Down Under – Season 2
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Role: Shooter / Producer Production Company: WildBear Entertainment Executive Producer: Veronica Fury Series Producers: Stephen Waller, Anna Jeffries Location: Rubyvale, QLD Screened: Ch7 (6 x 50mins) Description: Deep in the heart of the Australian bush, modern day treasure hunters are searching for hidden gems. Located in one of the richest sapphire deposits on earth, the […]
That Pacific Sports Show
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Role: Segment Field Producer Brisbane Production Company: ABC Executive Producer: Matt Scully Screening: Weekly on ABC TV Description: Join Tiana Penitani and Sam Wykes for your weekly hit of Pacific joy, as they share inspiring stories and incredible sporting prowess of athletes with Pacific Island heritage, from Australia and around the world. Segments: MMA Fighter […]
Ageless Friendships
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Role: Shooting Producer / Director Executive Producer: Teri Calder Editor / 2nd Camera: Teresa Tan Screened: 4mins – ABC TV Description: Ageless Friendships is an inspirational series of short stories about bridging the gap between young and old. Jayden and Neville were born 66-years apart, but their friendship has grown through the Community Visitor’s Scheme, […]
Hunted – Season 1
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Role: Embedded Fugitive Shooting Producer / Director Production Company: Endemol Shine Australia Director of Content: Marty Benson Series Producer: Natalie Cattach Location: Melbourne Screened: 10 x 60mins – Channel 10 Description: In this real-life game of cat and mouse, 18 ordinary Australians will go on the run from a team of expert Hunters. As paranoia […]
Artworks
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Roles: Various – Shooting Producer/Director + Cinematographer Producers: Various Series Producer: Bryson Hall Currently Screening: ABC TV & iview Description: Art Works is dedicated to exploring the full spectrum of the arts in Australia. Hosted by arts broadcaster Namila Benson, Art Works will reset the national artistic conversation featuring a palette of ideas for everyone. […]
The Children in the Pictures
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Credit: Cinematograper DOP: Erika Addis Production Company: DNX Media Directors: Akhim Dev, Simon Nasht Producers: Tony Wright, Simon Nasht Currently Screening Oct 21: Cinema Premiers, SBS – ‘Uncovered’ Documentary Series, SBS OnDemand Description: The Children in the Pictures takes us inside Task Force Argos, a renowned Australian-based police investigative team, as they go undercover to […]
Emergency – Season 2
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Roles: ENG Camera + Shooting Producer / Director Production Company: WTFN Executive Producer: Virginia Hodgson Series Producer: Timothy Powell Location: Melbourne Screened: Ch 9 – 10 x 60mins Description: An extraordinary team of real-life medical heroes fight to save desperate patients suffering life-threatening injuries, in one of Australia’s biggest and busiest emergency hospitals, The Royal […]
Ambulance Australia – Season 3
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Role: Shooting Producer / Director Production Company: Endemol Shine Australia Executive Producer: Margie Bashfield Series Producer: Matt Tomaszewski Location: Brisbane Screened: 8 x 60mins – Channel 10 Description: With honesty and transparency, this gripping fly-on-the-wall series will take an extraordinary look at the Queensland Ambulance frontline. Taking viewers on a journey from the high pressure […]
Struggle Street – Season 2
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Role: Embedded Shooting Producer / Director Production Company: Keo Films Australia Series Producer: Anita Brown Series Director: David Galloway Location: Inala, Brisbane Screened: 6 x 52mins SBS Description: Filmed over six months in Queensland and Victoria, the new series of Struggle Street offers a raw and unflinching portrayal of struggle and hardship in Australia and continues an important national discussion […]
Emergency
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Role: Shooting Producer / Director Production Company: WTFN Executive Producer: Virginia Hodgson Series Producer: Timothy Powell Location: Melbourne Screened 2020: CH9 – 10 x 60mins Description: An extraordinary team of real-life medical heroes fight to save desperate patients suffering life-threatening injuries, in one of Australia’s biggest and busiest emergency hospitals, The Royal Melbourne. This series […]
Making Marvels
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Production Company: WildBear TV Role: Additional Camera Producers: Marc Radomsky, Veronica Fury, Sam Moor Director: Glenn Wilkinson Location: Brisbane, Shenzhen China Screened: 3 x 48min Foxtel Arts Description: Urban Art Projects (UAP) is the world’s biggest grandeur art maker. Our favourite duo are back and taking big to even bigger! Handsome and charismatic twins, Dan […]
Outback Truckers – Season 9
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Role: Shooting Producer / Director Episode: ‘The Horseman’ Production Company: Prospero Productions Series Producer: Alan Hall Location: Brisbane – Darwin Episode: ‘The Horseman’ Screened: 9 x 60mins – Channel 7mate / Discovery Description: They drive the biggest trucks on earth along the toughest roads and loneliest highways in the world. They are Australia’s Outback Truckers, […]
Frackman
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Role:
Cinematographer
Surfing The Menu – The Next Generation
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Role: 2nd Camera DOP: Jim Frater ACS Production Company: NoMa Films PTY LTD Producers: Alun & Marian Bartsch, Lance W Reynolds Director: Mick de Montignie Locations: Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales Screened: 13 x 25min TV Episodes for SBS & ABC Description: Dan Churchill and Hayden Quinn are good mates. They share […]
Big Art
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Role: Shooting Producer / Director Production Company: WildBear TV Producers: Marc Radomsky, Veronica Fury, Nicholas Searle Director: Nicholas Searle Loaction: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney Screened: SBS 6 x half hours Description: When the world wants Big Art, it comes to Urban Art Projects, an art-making business founded by identical twins Daniel and Matthew Tobin. From humble […]
Thomas Banks: Quest For Love
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Role: Cinematographer / DOP Director / Producer: Pip Kelly Co-Producer: Phoebe Hart Location: Melbourne Currently Screening STAN, Various film festivals: 30 Mins Additional Camera: Pip Kelly, Richard Kickbush, Kelly Hucker, Phoebe Hart Description: Thomas Banks is a young, gay playwright with cerebral palsy who is on a quest to find true love; he writes a […]
Guardian of the Light
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Role: Director / Cinematographer Italian Producer: Luisa Izzo Location: San Felice, Italy Currently in Development: 15 – 20 Minutes Description: The lighthouse is his home. It’s his life and world in which he voluntarily secludes himself. His two dogs and the occasional stray cat are his only companions. This documentary was filmed at Cape Circeo lighthouse in […]
6Ft Hick: Notes from the Underground
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Role:
Cinematographer, Sound
Making Waves
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Role: Cinematographer Producer / Director: Alice McDowell Production Company: 180 Studios Location: The Gambia, West Africa Completed – Private Client: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance IDEA View: Teaser Shoot & Edit: Dan Schist Description: For the last three decades, Dr Isatou Touray has been leading Gambian women into new territory; into a place […]
Buying Blind
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Credit: Shooting Producer / Director Production Company: Endemol Shine Executive Producer: Anna Gregory Supervising Executive Producer: Margie Bashfield Location: Melbourne Episodes: Lis & Ali + Melbourne Episodes Screening: 6 x 90mins Ch9 Description: Couples searching for their dream home will hand over their life savings to three experts, trusting them to take over the biggest decision […]
Safe Harbour (EPK)
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Role: Cinematographer Additional Cinematography: Jared Bazley Production Company: Hatch Films Producer / Director: Tahnee McGuire Location: Brisbane Screening: EPK 4mins Description: The behind the scenes Electronic Press Kit for the hit Australian TV drama ‘Safe Harbour’
Crack Up
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Role: Cinematographer Production Company: Wildbear TV Executive Producer: Veronica Fury Producer: Sally Wortley Director: Amelia Paxman Location: Melbourne Screened: ABC2 30mins 2014 + Repeats Description: A whopping 1 in 5 people in Australia are affected by mental illness. And 3 in 4 of those are affected by the prejudice surrounding it. It’s a barrier to […]
Lost Daylight
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Role: Cinematographer Production Company: BIMA Produced & Directed: Nurdewi Djamal & Callan Murray Location: Brisbane Screened: 15 mins SBS TV Description: Aunty Dawn Daylight was taken along with her sisters and kept as a domestic slave by the Sisters of Mercy at The Hallows school in Brisbane. The healing process is one that is undertaken […]
Dancing Down Under
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Role:
Field Director / Cinematographer
When We Sing
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Role: Cinematographer Production Company: Fine & Clear Productions Producer: Julie Romaniuk DOP: Matt Cox Location: Brisbane Screening From January 2016: Feature Length Documentary 98mins Description: When We SIng is a joyful exploration of Zoltán Kodály’s revolutionary approach to unlocking musicality in teachers and their students, choir leaders and choristers through the work of Australian educator […]
Race To London
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Role:
Cinematographer
Free Rider
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Role:
Director / Cinematographer
The Mosque Next Door
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Role: Additional Camera Production Companies: Kalmedia & Southern Pictures Executive Producer: Laurie Critchley Producer: Ross Wilson Director: Max Walker Location: Brisbane Screened: 3 x 51mins SBS / Netflix Description: In suburbs across Australia, there is a building that is shrouded in controversy. For the first time, cameras were given unprecedented 24/7 access to an Australian […]
Demolition Down Under
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Role: Additional Shooter / Producer (Ep 1) Production Company: Wildbear Entertainment Executive Producer: Veronica Fury Series Producer / Director: Ian Withnall Location: Brisbane Screened 2020: 6 x 10mins – Ch 10 Description: From high rise apartments to sunken yachts, bizarre structures and massive warehouses, get rare access on site with the elite crews and their […]
Rite To Dance
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Role: Additional Cinematography Production Company: ZakPage Director: Alison Page & Nik Lachajczak Location: Brisbane Screening Sep 19: 25 mins SBS TV Description: Over six weeks, we follow three young Murri boys in Inala as they prepare for a debutante ball. Along the way, they find culture, discover dance and journey from boyhood to manhood.
The Trouble With St Marys
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Role: Additional Cinematography Production Company: Fury Productions, Soul Vision Films Director: Peter Hegedus Screened: 50 Minutes ABC1 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) Description The Trouble with St Mary’s follows the journey of a rebel priest and his community and their attempt to find a new way forward outside of the Catholic Church. Will they survive […]
2 Degrees
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Production Company: Green Turtle Films Producers: Jeff Canin, Ange Palmer Directors: Jeff Canin, Vanessa Gorman, Pele Safra Cinematography: Damien Beebe, Conan Fitzpatrick Production: Feature Length Movie Description: 2 Degrees reveals the chaotic failure of the UN negotiations of climate change in Copenhagen. It becomes chillingly clear that we cannot wait for governments to lead the […]