DAVID CONNELL   ACS

Born: ?, Melbourne, Australia.

Career: Started in 1973 at Crawford Productions as camera loader and worked his way up to focus puller. At the age of 17 he became a news cameraman for tv.

Ph commercials.

Active member of the ACS since 1988.

Awards: AFI [Aus] Award nom [1988] for 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'; CableACE Award nom [1996] for 'Twilight Man'; ACS 'Award of Distinction' [1999] for 'Moby Dick'; ACS 'Award of Distinction' [2006] for 'The Snow Walker'.

1973        King of the Islands [Ken Sallows] b&w; short/25m

1975        Another Winter in Melbourne [Ken Sallows] c; exp doc/10m

1984        The Aviator [George Miller] c; spec aph: John Oaten & John Edwards

1984        Frog Dreaming/The Quest [Brian Trenchard-Smith (replaced Russell Hagg)] c; co-addph; ph: John McLean

1986        Slate, Wyn & Me [Don McLennan] p/c

1986        Les Patterson Saves the World [George Miller] c

1987        Boulevard of Broken Dreams [Pino Amenta] c

1988        Kylie [: The Videos] [: The Kylie Collection] [video 'Locomotion' dir by Chris Langman] c; music video collection/

                    20m; other ph: Brett Anderson

1988        What the Moon Saw [Pino Amenta] c

1988        Heaven Tonight [Pino Amenta] c

1989        Hunting [Frank Howson] c; cph: Dan Burstall

1989        The Neverending Story II; The Next Chapter [George Miller] p/c; 2uc: Karl-Walter Lindenlaub; aph: Ray Andrew;

                    vfx ph: Paul Wilson

1990        Fifty-Fifty/50-50 [Charles Martin Smith] c; ph Italy: Roberto Forges Davanzati; 2uc: Ross Berryman

1991        Over the Hill/Round the Bend [George Miller] c

1991        Secrets/One Crazy Night [Michael Pattinson] c

1992        Gross Misconduct/Gross Indecency [George Miller] c

1992        Hercules Returns [David Parker] c

1993        Female Misbehavior [Charles Martin Smith & Monika Treut] c; doc/80m; cph: Ross Berryman & Elfie Mikesch

1994        The Ascent [Donald Shebib] p/c; 2uc: Scott Ramson

1994        [Daniel Defoe's] Robinson Crusoe [Rod Hardy & George Miller] c; cph: Ian McMillan & Greg Ryan; vfx ph: John

                    Coates; 6 days of add shooting in January 1996 were dir by G. Miller; originally made as a tvm

1996        Zeus and Roxanne [George Miller] c; 2uc: Laszlo Baranyai; uwph: Paul Mockler

1996        Night Flier/Stephen King's The Night Flier [Mark Pavia] c

2002        The Snow Walker [Charles Martin Smith] s35/c; ph insert & winter units: Jon Joffin; ph British Columbia: Paul Sarossy

2004        News for the Church [Andrew McCarthy] s35/c; short/19m

2005        Left Behind: World at War [Craig R. Baxley] c/V

2005        December Boys [Rod Hardy] s35/c; 2uc: Dick Tummel

2006        Jack and Jill vs. the World [Vanessa Parise] c

1982        Carson's Law [Brian Lennane] 6-part miniseries, 1983 (followed by 178-part series, 1983-84)

1982        Der schwarze Bumerang [Wolf Dietrich & George Miller] 4-part miniseries; cph: Peter Tost

1983        All the Rivers Run [George Miller (ep #1 & 3) Pino Amenta (ep #2 & 4] 4-part miniseries

1984        The Flying Doctors [Pino Amenta] 3-part miniseries (followed by 227-part series, 1986-91); cph: Greg Ryan

1985        Fortress [Arch Nicholson] tvm; uwph: Ron Taylor

1986        Alice to Nowhere [John Power] tvm

1986        Sword of Honour [Pino Amenta & Catherine Millar] 4-part miniseries

1986        Nancy Wake/True Colors [Pino Amenta] tvm

1987        Bushfire Moon/Miracle Down Under/The Christmas Visitor [George Miller] tvm; also ep ('Miracle Down Under') of

                    PBS-tv series 'WonderWorks' (1988); also released theatrically

1988        Barracuda/The Rocks [Pino Amenta] tvm

1989        Trouble in Paradise [Di Drew] tvm; 2uc: Ross Berryman

1992        Rose Against the Odds [John Dixon] 2-part tvm

1992        Love, Lies and Lullabies/Sad Inheritance [Rod Hardy] tvm

1992        Rio Diablo [Rod Hardy] tvm; 2uc: Eric J. Goldstein

1992        Between Love and Hate [Rod Hardy] tvm

1993        My Name Is Kate [Rod Hardy] tvm

1993        A Day in the Life of Country Music [exec prod: Ken Kragen] mus special/120m; ph Fort Worth; other ph: Anghel Decca

                    (Nashville), Daniel Pearl (Dallas), Edward Lachman (Fairfax), a.o.; shot on one day (7 May)

1993        The Only Way Out/Grounds for Murder [Rod Hardy] tvm

1993        The Yearling [Rod Hardy] tvm; 2uc: Eric J. Goldstein

1994        Buffalo Girls [Rod Hardy] 2-part tvm; 2uc: Douglas Milsome

1995        Silver Strand [George Miller] tvm

1995        Shadow-Ops [Craig R. Baxley] pilot; aph: Norman Kent

1996        An Unfinished Affair [Rod Hardy] tvm; 2uc: Douglas Milsome

1996        Twilight Man [Craig R. Baxley] tvm

1996        Bad Day On the Block/Under Pressure [Craig R. Baxley] tvm

1996        Clover [Jud Taylor] tvm

1997        Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone [Simon Langton] tvm; 2uc: Jamie Doolan