ANDREW COMMIS ACS / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
FEATURE FILMS : 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 Asscociation (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 2016 10x Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts [AACTA] Award nominations incl. Best Feature Film 2016 Australian Cinematographers Society [ACS] Award of Distinction 2015 Venice Film Festival - Official Selection 2015 Toronto Film Festival - Official Selection 2015 BFI London / Stockholm / Sydney Film Festivals - Official Competition
THE TURNING : Boner McPharlin’s Moll : Commission
Director : Justin Kurzel / Producers : Sarah Shaw & Anna McLeish Director : David Wenham / Producer : Maggie Miles
Cast : Louise Harris, Wacka Stevens & Hat Fitz 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
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 [Amercian Film Institute] Film Festivals - Audience Awards for 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
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TELEVISION : 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
SHORT FILMS : MEATHEAD selected ... 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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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
THE MAN WHO SAVED A MILLION BRAINS
Director : Kate Reidl / Producer : Kate Reidl / Dragonet Films
2006 Australian Teachers of Media [ATOM] Award nomination - Best Documentary 2005 United Nations Travelling Film Festival
TVC :
selected ... DIRECTORS
Adam Gunser / Adam Stevens / Alex O. Smith / Alyssa McClelland / Ash Bolland / Ben Briand / Ben Quinn / Benji Weinstein
Bruce Hunt / C-Kol / Chris Dudman / David Rittey / Darren Ashton / Dylan Pharazyn / Felicity Morgan-Rhind / Fiona McGee
Glendyn Ivin / Glue Society / Greg Wood / James Solomon / Justin Kurzel / Kevin Denholm / Kiku Ohe / Louis Sutherland
Matt Devine / Matt Murphy / Melanie Bridge / Michael Wong / Nathan Price / Paul Goldman / Pep Bosch / Perry Westwood
Peter Carstairs / Sam Kristofski / Sean Kruck / Steve Saussey / Tim Bullock / Trevor Clarence / Wade Shotter / Zia Mandiwalla
MUSIC : selected ... ARTIST TITLE DIRECTOR
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
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