The Canon Australia-backed Sunstudios has opened submissions for its annual imaging competition, which expands this year to include videography for the first time.
The Sunstudios Emerging Photographer Award (Sepa) calls for the nation’s upcoming photography and videography talent to submit work across two categories: Faces and Places.
The total prize pool is worth $25,000, aimed at supporting winners through the next stage of their career. There are two main awards each for photo and video, and this year for the first time will also see the introduction of people’s choice awards.
Video judges will include cinematographers Carolyn Constantine and Andy Taylor, and cinematographer/director Dave May, while the photo prizes will be judged by World Press Award-winning photographer Adam Ferguson, fashion photographer Georges Antoni, and Nicky Catley, photographic editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and Australian Financial Review.
Finalists’ work will feature in an exhibition currently scheduled...
The Sunstudios Emerging Photographer Award (Sepa) calls for the nation’s upcoming photography and videography talent to submit work across two categories: Faces and Places.
The total prize pool is worth $25,000, aimed at supporting winners through the next stage of their career. There are two main awards each for photo and video, and this year for the first time will also see the introduction of people’s choice awards.
Video judges will include cinematographers Carolyn Constantine and Andy Taylor, and cinematographer/director Dave May, while the photo prizes will be judged by World Press Award-winning photographer Adam Ferguson, fashion photographer Georges Antoni, and Nicky Catley, photographic editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and Australian Financial Review.
Finalists’ work will feature in an exhibition currently scheduled...
- 7/15/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Justine Kerrigan.
After launching the #WhoIsInYourCrew campaign, the Australian Cinematographers Society has taken another step towards achieving greater diversity in its ranks.
Instigated by the Society’s president Ron Johanson, the Acs Women’s Advisory Panel, which was formed eight years ago, has been expanded and renamed as the Acs Diversity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Panel.
As a result, the membership base has been broadened to include cinematographers of colour, Indigenous Australians, Lgbtqi-identifying people and many women from the original Wap, chaired by Justine Kerrigan.
“Working under a mandate to discuss more openly ways to improve these matters within our own Society, in camera departments and on film sets, we anticipate the meetings will become an open forum for all to share thoughts and experiences and to put forward ideas that will help the Society move forward in positive and inclusive ways,” Kerrigan said.
Among the new members of the panel are Cara Hurley,...
After launching the #WhoIsInYourCrew campaign, the Australian Cinematographers Society has taken another step towards achieving greater diversity in its ranks.
Instigated by the Society’s president Ron Johanson, the Acs Women’s Advisory Panel, which was formed eight years ago, has been expanded and renamed as the Acs Diversity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Panel.
As a result, the membership base has been broadened to include cinematographers of colour, Indigenous Australians, Lgbtqi-identifying people and many women from the original Wap, chaired by Justine Kerrigan.
“Working under a mandate to discuss more openly ways to improve these matters within our own Society, in camera departments and on film sets, we anticipate the meetings will become an open forum for all to share thoughts and experiences and to put forward ideas that will help the Society move forward in positive and inclusive ways,” Kerrigan said.
Among the new members of the panel are Cara Hurley,...
- 8/30/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Twenty-seven of Australia’s top cinematographers last night launched a social media campaign aimed at boosting the number of women employed in camera teams and, more broadly, encouraging greater diversity across the screen industry.
Using the hashtag #whoisinyourcrew, the six-week campaign is designed to reach all heads of department as well as directors and producers.
The initiative was conceived by Dop Bonnie Elliott on behalf of the Australian Cinematographers Society’s Diversity Committee, the reconfigured Acs Women’s Advisory Panel.
Appointed to Screen Australia’s Gender Matters task force this year, Elliott has led the way by maintaining gender equity across her own camera teams for the last four years.
“I am keen to empower my fellow cinematographers to help make change in the industry through their hiring practices,” says Elliott, whose recent credits include Stateless, The Furnace, Palm Beach, The Hunting, H is for Happiness and Daina Reid’s upcoming Run Rabbit Run.
Using the hashtag #whoisinyourcrew, the six-week campaign is designed to reach all heads of department as well as directors and producers.
The initiative was conceived by Dop Bonnie Elliott on behalf of the Australian Cinematographers Society’s Diversity Committee, the reconfigured Acs Women’s Advisory Panel.
Appointed to Screen Australia’s Gender Matters task force this year, Elliott has led the way by maintaining gender equity across her own camera teams for the last four years.
“I am keen to empower my fellow cinematographers to help make change in the industry through their hiring practices,” says Elliott, whose recent credits include Stateless, The Furnace, Palm Beach, The Hunting, H is for Happiness and Daina Reid’s upcoming Run Rabbit Run.
- 7/27/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Tania Lambert shoots a Toyota Tvc.
If speaks to cinematographers Anna Howard, Tania Lambert, Katie Milwright, Mandy Walker, Bonnie Elliott, Emma Paine, Velinda Wardell, Sky Davies and Ashley Barron about rising up the ranks, the gender gap and the DPs that inspire them.
No woman has ever won the Oscar for best cinematography. In fact, no woman has ever been nominated. In Australia, Abs statistics to 2011 put the percentage of female directors of photography at around 6 percent. Were you aware of the gender divide at the beginning of your career?
Lambert: I was keenly aware of the gender imbalance in the camera department when I first started as a camera assistant. It didn.t bother me a huge deal, but I felt I had to work extra hard to be respected in that role. There were only a few female camera assistants I knew of and one female Dop, Anna Howard,...
If speaks to cinematographers Anna Howard, Tania Lambert, Katie Milwright, Mandy Walker, Bonnie Elliott, Emma Paine, Velinda Wardell, Sky Davies and Ashley Barron about rising up the ranks, the gender gap and the DPs that inspire them.
No woman has ever won the Oscar for best cinematography. In fact, no woman has ever been nominated. In Australia, Abs statistics to 2011 put the percentage of female directors of photography at around 6 percent. Were you aware of the gender divide at the beginning of your career?
Lambert: I was keenly aware of the gender imbalance in the camera department when I first started as a camera assistant. It didn.t bother me a huge deal, but I felt I had to work extra hard to be respected in that role. There were only a few female camera assistants I knew of and one female Dop, Anna Howard,...
- 9/15/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Wide Open Sky.
Wide Open Sky was the winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at last year's Sydney Film Festival.
Director Lisa Nicol's documentary tells the story of Moorambilla Voices, an outback children's choir assembled every year by teacher Michelle Leonard.
"Michelle had children at the same school as me, and I heard about her choir and her doing incredible things with these kids who have no music education", said Nicol (whose previous documentary, A Night At Sea, was about musician Louis Tillett).
"It was so ambitious, and the more I heard about it the more intrigued I was"..
Nicol got the ABC onboard by filming a twelve-minute sizzle reel at one of Leonard's music camps..
For the shoot itself, the filmmaker and regular collaborators Anna Craney (editor/producer) and Carolyn Constantine (Dop) plus a sound recordist travelled around the remote regions of western Nsw.
"We followed Michelle throughout the year.
Wide Open Sky was the winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at last year's Sydney Film Festival.
Director Lisa Nicol's documentary tells the story of Moorambilla Voices, an outback children's choir assembled every year by teacher Michelle Leonard.
"Michelle had children at the same school as me, and I heard about her choir and her doing incredible things with these kids who have no music education", said Nicol (whose previous documentary, A Night At Sea, was about musician Louis Tillett).
"It was so ambitious, and the more I heard about it the more intrigued I was"..
Nicol got the ABC onboard by filming a twelve-minute sizzle reel at one of Leonard's music camps..
For the shoot itself, the filmmaker and regular collaborators Anna Craney (editor/producer) and Carolyn Constantine (Dop) plus a sound recordist travelled around the remote regions of western Nsw.
"We followed Michelle throughout the year.
- 2/11/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
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