Languages: Fluent Dutch, French
FEATURE FILMS INCLUDE:
I REALLY HATE MY JOB Directed by Oliver Parker With Neve Campbell, Danny Huston, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell-Martin 3 DD Films INFINITE JUSTICE Directed by Jamil Dhelavi With Razza Jaffrey, Kevin Collins, Dhelavi Films. Shot in Pakistan, New York, and London (Based on the story of Daniel Pearl) High Def 2-35-1 THE AMERICAN Directed by Paul Unwin With Matthew Modine, Diana Rigg, Brenda Fricker and Aisling O'Sullivan BBC Films/Irish Screen Shot in Ireland THE HONEYTRAP Directed by Michael Gunter With Emily Lloyd and Michael Green Film House Productions HEARTBREAK CITY Directed by Stephen Whittaker. With Pastora Vega, Donald Sumpter, Shaun Chapman and Claude Aufare Shot in Tunisia MUSTANG THE HIDDEN KINGDOM Director/Cameraman Cinema released documentary. The Dalai Lama sends an envoy to a forgotten Himalayan Kingdom closed for forty years, to bring back two chosen children. Shot in Nepal/Tibet. Winner of 8 awards Inc; Cine Golden Eagle, Chicago, Grand Prix Banff, Silver Prize, New York. ROMEO AND JULIET A film of the Gounod opera. Directed by Barbara Willis-Sweete With Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. Toronto Film Festival,Berlin, Rotterdam, Athens, London Festivals L’EMBELLIE Directed by Jean-Baptiste Erreca With Abdel Arzez, Catrine Charmet. No Sacrifice Films, Paris/CNC Shot in the Loire..Moyen metrage KILLING TIME - (short film) Directed by Zadoc Nava With Ewart James Walters Best Cinematography award BFM International Film Festival 2003TV FILMS/DRAMA INCLUDE:
THE PASSION (mini series) HBO and BBC. Director Michael Offer Producer : Nigel Stafford Clark. With Joseph Mauwle, James Nesbitt. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (90minute TV film) Director: Ed Fraiman. Producer: Pier Wilkie. BBC With Imelda Staunton, Bill Patterson, Johnny Vegas. AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET "CUBA" 6 X 1HR Directors Maurice Phillips and David Innes-Edwards. Producer Chrissy Skinns BBC. With Timothy Spall, Kevin Whately, Tim Healey and Jimmy Nail. Filmed on location in the West Indies MURPHY'S LAW (90 minute TV film) Director: Maurice Phillips. Producer Sanne Craddick.Tiger Aspect With James Nesbitt GLORIANA A film of the Britten Opera. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd With Dame Josephine Barstow and Thomas Bard. Best Film, International Emmy Awards. THE LAST MUSKETEER (Two hour TV film) Directed by Bill Brittan. Produced by Bill Boyce, ITV With Robson Green, Arckie Wright OUR BRAVE BOYS (Two hour TV film) Directed by Paul Unwin. Produced by Tim Whitby and Harriet Davidson.ITV With Jemma Redgrave and David Calder ZOE (90 minute TV film) Directed by Teresa Griffiths. Produced by Nic Kent,Ch 4 THE SANDMAN Directed by the Brothers Quay With Irek Mukhamedov, Zenedia Yanowsky and Heathcote Williams. Music by Janacek Rotterdam Film Festival, Toronto Film festival etcRECENT COMMERCIALS AND MUSIC VIDEOS INCLUDE:
PAMPAS directed by Jean-Baptiste Erreca CANTOS directed by Oliver Parker AIRTEL INDIA directed by Ravi Udyawar WINSTON _Phil Dupee LABOUR PARTY directed by Anthony Mingella et all. Silverfish TV ABBEY NATIONAL directed by Andy Lambert for Partisan T MOBILE directed by Zadoc Nava for RHB FOX SPORTS - directed by The Brothers Quay x 2 MEDIOLANUM BANK - directed by Zadoc Nava for RHB, shot in Tunisia UNICEF - directed by Hugh Hudson for RSA, shot in Mozambique CHRISTIAN AID - directed by Zadoc Nava, Shot in Ethiopia for RHB EMIRATES HOLIDAYS – Zadoc Nava. - Shot in Thailand GLADE Zadoc Nava CHRISTIAN DIOR- shot in Paris. 50 + music videosDOCUMENTARIES INCLUDE: (60+ film credits, all Super 16mm or HD)
“VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL” (Channel 4 ) 3 x 1 hour series. What will the world be like in 2025? Shot over three continents. Nominated RTS Best Television Cinematography. Best series San Francisco Film festival.
“SPIRITS OF THE RAINFOREST”(Discovery) Co Director/Cameraman. Shamanism in Machiguenga Indian Society. Filmed in Manu rain forest of Peru. Emmy Award Best Film.
“HG WELLS” (BBC) 2 x 60 minute. Bookmark’s major retrospective of HG Wells work. Stylised imagery shot on location in Russia, New Zealand and UK, is evocatively combined to underscore Wellsian prose.
“EXPOSURE” CUTTING EDGE (Channel 4) 24 highly paid executives are sent on a weeks motivational adventure course run by ex - paratrooper John Ridgeway in Scotland. The film culminates in a totally unexpected mutiny which Ridgeway describes as “my greatest failure in 25 years”.
“FLYING SOLDIERS” (BBC) 6 part landmark series following a course of helicopter pilots through what is described by the army as “the most difficult course of them all”. Directed by Tim Lambert.
“MARATHON MONKS OF MOUNT HIEI”(Channel 4) Following the legendary “marathon monks” whose seven year Kahogia, or quest for enlightenment, involves a meditation of 100 days of 30 mile runs around a sacred mountain. Only achieved twice this century we filmed the final stages of a monks Kahogia finally attaining a state of the living Buddha.
“THE SPIRIT HUNTERS” (Discovery) 1 hour film about the Machiguenga Indians spirit world. co Director / cameraman.
“IN THE COMPANY OF WHALES”(Channel 4/Discovery) 90 minute film about the life of Dr Roger Payne who discovered that whales sing in 1967. Shot over five continents world-wide over a period of two years. Emmy nominated Best Film. Winner Chicago Film Festival. Directed by Robin Brown.
“BABY ITS YOU”(Channel 4/Discovery) Six part series on the first three years of childhood. Co-credit. Emmy award best film. Nominated for ACE award.
“WILD THING” (Channel 4/Discovery) Three part series exploring elephant, chimpanzee and lion physiology. A combination of behavioural footage shot on location in East Africa and commercial style imagery shot with trained elephants in South Africa. Nominated/finalist best cinematography Wildscreen.
“WAGNERS WOMAN” (Channel 4) 60 minute docudrama with Fiona Shaw as Cosima Wagner.
“CATS” (BBC/Discovery) Dramatised documentary on the lives of cats. Mainly studio based shot in London, using stunt cats. Emmy nominated best cinematography.
“DYING FOR DEMOCRACY” (Channel 4 ) Shot on location in the Golden Triangle area of Burma with the Mon, Kachin and Karen insurgency groups, this film revealed a land in a state of crisis and a scale of human rights abuses far larger than previously reported.
“THE DINGLE DOLPHIN” (ITV) Shot in Dingle Ireland, a short film about a dolphin who seems to like people and how they have made an industry out of it. Director/cameraman.
“HARMONY IN HANOI” (BBC ) Music in Vietnam, and how it has changed over the last 30 years. Influences of Russian, classical and indigenous folk music. Directed by Antony Fabian.
AWARDS
Nominated for best cinematography factual RTS.
Nominated for 2 x emmys best cinematography
Best cinematography award BMF festival
Nominated/finalist best cinematography Wildsreen
Cine Golden Eagle Award (dir/cam)
Grand Prix Banff (dir/cam)
Teluride Grand Prix (dir/cam)
Silver New York (dir/cam)
Nominated ADS (dir/cam)
Emmy Award (dir/cam)
OTHER SKILLS
Experienced Pilot - Full IR and PPL. (500+hours). Fully conversant with gyrostabilised, conventional tyler mounts, and hand held aerial cinematography.
Underwater cameraman on many of films listed. Commercial Diving certificate (1000+hours underwater)
Competent climber. Expedition experience in Himalayas, Mongolia, Amazon etc. High Himalayan climbing at altitude, including 22,000ft accent in Khumbu in winter. Good skier.
Competant motor mechanic. Motorcycle fulll license. Good horse rider.