ANDREW COMMIS ACS / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
FEATURE FILMS : HIGH GROUND Director : Stephen Johnson / Producers : David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin & Maggie Miles / Bunya Productions & Savage Films Cast : Jacob Junior Nayingal, Simon Baker, Witiyana Marika, Callan Mulvey, Caren Pistorius, Aaron Pederson & Jack Thompson
2020 Berlin Film Festival - Official Selection
BABYTEETH Director : Shannon Murphy / Producer : Alex White & Jan Chapman / Whitefalk Films & Jan Chapman Films Cast : Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Eliza Scanlan, Toby Wallace & Emily Barclay
2019 Venice Film Festival - Official Competition
ANGEL OF MINE Director : Kim Farrant / Producer : Brian Etting, Josh Etting & Su Armstrong / Garlin Films & SixtyFourSixty Cast : Noomi Rapace, Yvonne Strahovski, Luke Evans, Richard Roxburgh, Finn Little & Annika Whitely
2019 Australian Cinematographers Society [ACS] Gold Award
GIRL ASLEEP Director : Rosemary Myers / Producer : Jo Dyer / Soft Tread & Windmill Cast : Bethany Whitmore, Harrison Feldman, Matthew Whittet, Amber McMahon & Eamon Farren
2017 Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA) Award - Best Feature Film 2017 6x Film Critics Circle of Australia [FCCA] Award nominations incl. Best Feature Film & Best Cinematography 2016 7x Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award nominations incl. Best Feature Film & Best Cinematography 2016 Seattle Film Festival - Official Competition Grand Jury Prize & Youth Jury Prize 2016 Berlin Film Festival - Official Selection 2016 Melbourne Film Festival - The Age Critics Prize
THE REHEARSAL Director : Alison Maclean / Producers : Bridget Ikin & Trevor Haysom / Hibiscus & THE Films Cast : James Rolleston, Kerry Fox, Alice Englert, Ella Edward & Marlon Williams
2017 New Zealand Film Award nomination - Best Feature Film 2016 Toronto Film Festival - Official Selection 2016 New York Film Festival - Official Selection 2016 BFI London Film Festival - Official Selection 2016 New Zealand / Melbourne Film Festivals - Official Selection
THE DAUGHTER Director : Simon Stone / Producer : Jan Chapman & Nicole O’Donohue / Jan Chapman Films & Wildflower Cast : Geoffrey Rush, Paul Schneider, Ewen Leslie, Miranda Otto, Odessa Young & Sam Neill
2017 10x Film Critics Circle of Australia [FCCA] Award nominations incl. Best Feature Film & Best Cinematography 2017 Australian Cinematographers Society [ACS] Award of Distinction 2016 10x Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award nominations incl. Best Feature Film 2015 Venice Film Festival - Official Selection 2015 Toronto Film Festival - Official Selection 2015 BFI London / Stockholm / Sydney Film Festivals - Official Competition
THE ROCKET Director : Kim Mordaunt / Producer : Sylvia Wilcynski / Executive Producer : Bridget Ikin / Red Lamp Cast : Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Thep Phongam, Bunsri Yindi, Sumrit Warin & Alice Keohavong
2014 Film Critics Circle of Australia [FCCA] Award - Best Feature Film 2014 12x Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award nominations incl. Best Feature Film & Best Cinematography 2013 Berlin Film Festival - Crystal Bear Award for Best Feature Film & Amnesty International Prize 2013 Tribeca Film Festival - Jury Award & Audience Award for Best Feature Film 2013 Melbourne / Sydney / AFI Fest [American Film Institute] Film Festivals - Audience Awards for Best Feature Film
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FEATURE FILMS : THE TURNING continued ... : Boner McPharlin’s Moll
Director : Justin Kurzel / Producers : Sarah Shaw & Anna McLeish Cast : Louise Harris, Wacka Stevens & Hat Fitz
2014 Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award nomination - Best Feature Film 2014 Australian Film Critics Asscociation (AFCA) nominations - Best Feature Film & Best Cinematography 2014 Berlin Film Festival - Official Selection 2014 BFI London Film Festival - Official Selection 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Award nomination - Best Feature Film
THE TURNING : Commission
Director : David Wenham / Producer : Maggie Miles Cast : Hugo Weaving & Josh McConville
2014 Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award nomination - Best Feature Film 2014 Australian Film Critics Asscociation (AFCA) nominations - Best Feature Film & Best Cinematography 2014 Berlin Film Festival - Official Selection 2014 BFI London Film Festival - Official Selection 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Award nomination - Best Feature Film
BEAUTIFUL KATE Director : Rachel Ward / Producers : Leah Churchill-Brown & Bryan Brown / New Town & New Doll Cast : Ben Mendelsohn, Bryan Brown, Maeve Dermody, Sophie Lowe & Rachel Griffiths
2010 Australian Cinematographers Society [ACS] Milli Award - Australian Cinematographer of the Year 2009 10x Australian Film Institute [AFI] Award nominations incl. Best Feature Film & Best Cinematography 2009 9x Film Critics Circle of Australia [FCCA] Award nominations incl. Best Feature Film & Best Cinematography 2009 Inside Film [IF] Award - Best Cinematography 2009 Toronto International Film Festival - Official Selection
SHORT FILMS : selected ... MEATHEAD Director : Sam Holst / Producers : Chelsea Winstanly & Desray Armstrong / Stanstrong
2012 Berlin Film Festival - Crystal Bear Award for Best Short Film 2011 Cannes Film Festival - Official Competition 2011 Melbourne, Palm Springs, Chicago, Montreal Film Festivals
NATURE’S WAY Director : Jane Shearer / Producer : Leanne Saunders / Severe Features & Lake David
2006 Cannes Film Festival - Official Competition 2006 NZ Screen Award - Best Short Film 2006 NZ Screen Award - Technical Craft Achievement Award [for cinematography] 2007 Paris Cinema International Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize 2006 London, Sao Paulo, Stockholm Film Festivals
BLUE TONGUE Director : Justin Kurzel / Producer : Tim Jolley / VCA
2005 Cannes Film Festival - Critics Week Competition 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival - Best Australian Short Film 2005 New York, Oberhausen, Stockholm Film Festivals
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TELEVISION : BRAVE NEW WORLD
Directors : Craig Zisk & Andrij Parekh / Showrunner : David Weiner / Producers : Chloe Moss, Kim Todd & Andrew Warren Amblin Television & NBC Universal [ 9 x 1 hr series - Episodes 3, 4, 7 & 8 ]
Cast : Alden Ehrenreich, Harry Lloyd, Jessica Brown Findlay, Hannah John Kamen, Kylie Bunbury & Demi Moore
LOVE
Director : Alexander Zeldin / Producer : Caroline Lawrence / BBC Films, BBC Arts, Cuba Pictures & National Theatre [ tele-feature ]
Cast : Anna Calder-Marshall, Nick Holder, Janet Etuk, Luke Clarke, Hind Swarelhab & Brooke Hart
DO NOT DISTURB Producers : Neil Andrews & Shirley O’Connor / Pulse Films & Blackpills [ short film anthology series ]
: Child’s Play Director : Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace aka “32”
: Silent Treatment Director : Matthew Huston
: Comic Con Director : Jake Chapman
: Glue Director : Zoe Cassavettes
2019 Cannes Series - Official Competition
DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND Director : Rachel Ward & Tony Krawitz / Producers : Helen Bowden & Penny Chapman / Matchbox & NBC Universal [ 6 x 1hr series ] Cast : Simon Burke, Don Hany, John Noble, Anna Lise Phillips, Jack Thompson & Toni Collette
2015 Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award - Best Mini-Series / Tele-Feature 2015 Australian Cinematographers Society [ACS] Award of Distinction 2014 Sydney, Melbourne Film Festivals - Official Selection
UNDERGROUND Director : Robert Connolly / Producer : Helen Bowden / Matchbox & NBC Universal [ tele-feature ] Cast : Alex Williams, Rachel Griffiths, Anthony Lapaglia, Laura Wheelright & Callan McAuliffe
2013 Washington DC Film Festival - Opening Night Selection 2013 Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award nomination - Best Mini-Series / Tele-Feature 2012 Toronto Film Festival - Official Selection 2012 BFI London Film Festival - Official Selection
MABO Director : Rachel Perkins / Producers : Darren Dale & Miranda Dear / Blackfella [ tele-feature ] Cast : Jimi Bani, Deborah Mailman, Ewen Leslie, Colin Friels & Miranda Otto
2012 Deadly Award (National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards) - Best Film 2012 Sydney International Film Festival - Official Selection 2012 Logie Award nomination - Outstanding Drama [Mini Series / Tele-Feature]
THE SLAP
Directors : Jessica Hobbs & Matthew Saville & Tony Ayres & Robert Connolly
Producers : Helen Bowden & Michael McMahon & Tony Ayres / Matchbox [ 8 x 1hr series ] Cast : Jonathan Lapaglia, Sophie Okonedo, Alex Dimitriades, Sophie Lowe, Essie Davis & Melissa George
2012 Emmy nomination - Best International Drama Series 2012 BAFTA nomination - Best International Drama Series 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award - Best Mini-Series / Tele-Feature 2012 Logie Award - Outstanding Drama [Mini Series / Tele-Feature] 2012 Melbourne Film Festival - Official Selection
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DOCUMENTARY : A NORTHERN TOWN selected ... Director : Rachel Landers / Producer : Dylan Blowen / Pony Films [ feature ]
2008 Australian Film Institute [AFI] Award - Best Cinematography in a Documentary 2008 Film Critics Circle of Australia Award [FCCA] nomination - Best Documentary 2008 Dendy Award nomination - CRC Award 2008 Sheffield Documentary Festival – Official Selection 2008 Grierson Documentary Award for Innovation nomination
NAKED ON THE INSIDE Director : Kim Farrant / Producer : Ian Walker / Executive Producer : Jack Lechner / Magic Real & Radical Media [ feature ]
2007 Film Critics Circle of Australia [FCCA] Award nomination - Best Documentary 2007 Dendy Award nomination - Best Documentary
TVC : DIRECTORS selected ... Adam Gunser / Adam Stevens / Al Morrow / Alex O. Smith / Alyssa McClelland / Ash Bolland / Ben Briand / Ben Dawkins
Ben Quinn / Benji Weinstein / Brendan Donovan / Bruce Hunt / C-Kol / Chris Dudman / Darren Ashton / Dylan Pharazyn
Felicity Morgan-Rhind / Fiona McGee / Glendyn Ivin / Glue Society / Greg Wood / James Solomon / Justin Kurzel
Kevin Denholm / Kiku Ohe / Leilani Croucher / Louis Sutherland / Matt Devine / Matt Murphy / Melanie Bridge
Michael Wong / Nathan Price / Paul Goldman / Pep Bosch / Perry Westwood / Peter Carstairs / Sam Kristofski / Sarah Bishop
Scott Vincent / Sean Kruck / Steve Saussey / Tibor Glage / Tim Bullock / Trevor Clarence / Wade Shotter / Zia Mandiwalla
MUSIC : ARTIST TITLE DIRECTOR selected ... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ‘20,000 days on earth’ [Australian unit] Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard Thievery Corporation ‘live at the 9:30 club’ [feature length concert film] Jolyon Hoff The Mess Hall ‘bell’ Justin Kurzel The Mess Hall ‘pulse’ Justin Kurzel Thievery Corporation ‘the numbers game’ Jolyon Hoff The Mess Hall ‘pills’ Justin Kurzel You Am I ‘ain’t funny how we don’t talk anymore’ Justin Kurzel Midnight Oil ‘the real thing’ Morgan Christie
Regions worked in … Australia / Brazil / Canada / China / India / Indonesia / Japan / Laos / Malaysia / New Zealand / Palau / Samoa
Singapore / South Africa / Taiwan / Thailand / Tibet / United Arab Emirates / United Kingdom / United States of America
AUSTRALIAN passport / IRISH passport / US visa [0-1]
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