RISING TALENT 2023 - CINEMATOGRAPHERS

CINEMATOGRAPHERS

So impressed are we with the industry’s up-and-comers, we have decided to make our Rising Talent list an annual fixture. These are the people we think the industry needs to sit up and take notice of; the names you’ll need to know and want to work with in the years ahead. Some faces are relatively new, while others have recently moved up the chain into leadership positions where they are making change.

Thank you again to everyone who helped us put this list together, including the hundreds of submissions we received through our public call out. We know this list is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the talent in this industry, but we hope it hints towards its future.

TYSON PERKINS

Tyson Perkins is Arrernte and Kalkadoon DOP based in Sydney.

In 2022, Perkins won the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography in a Television Series for his work on Mystery Road: Origin, on which he worked alongside frequent collaborator, director Dylan River. He was also DOP on the AACTA Award-winning short Finding Jedda, and shot second unit for Netflix’s Heartbreak High.

This year, he will shoot Samuel Van Grinsven’s second feature film, Went Up the Hill

Perkins’ other credits as cinematographer include Nel Minchin and Wayne Blair’s AACTA-winning documentary Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra, Allan Clarke documentary The Bowraville Murders, Amazon Prime Video sketch series The Moth Effect and SBS’s AACTA-winning short form series Robbie Hood. In 2021, he received two Gold ACS NSW Awards for his work on Julia Stone music video We All Have and TVC The Upside Sport.

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KATE CORNISH

Kate Cornish is cinematographer from Sydney, who shoots across narrative, documentary and music. She is passionate about authentic queer representation in her storytelling.

As Cornish launched her freelance career, she began to make her mark shooting comedy, most notably for SBS’s The Feed, shooting over 150 sketches for television and online in 2019.

In 2021, Cornish was recognised as an emerging talent and named a Canon Australia ambassador. Canon granted her support to make a film chronicling the untold story of Australia’s Dykes on Bikes, which in 2022 won a Silver ACS Award.

Most recently, Cornish served as a DOP for the upcoming Seven sketch show, We Interrupt This Broadcast, produced by Helium. She was also a shadow cinematographer attachment on Wolf Like Me season 2.

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MAXX CORKINDALE

The Adelaide-based Maxx Corkindale’s recent work includes Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness (in competition this year at Berlinale), an episode of the ABC's Aftertaste, and 2nd unit cinematography on Thomas M Wright’s The Stranger and the BBC/HBOMax series The Tourist.

Corkindale also worked with director Molly Reynolds for four years to create the AACTA Award winning feature documentary My Name is Gulpilil – the late actor David Gulpilil’s life story –a project that he counts as a career highlight.

From 2012-2014, Corkindale co-shot documentary Sons and Mothers with mentor Aaron Gully ACS, winning both an AACTA. In 2014, he also received Best Cinematography at the St Kilda Film Festival for the short film Welcome to Iron Knob, which also became the AACTA Short Film of the Decade.

Corkindale has shot two ARIA-nominated music videos for the Hilltop Hoods, Cosby Sweater and Exit Sign, along with the awardwinning clip for A.B. Original’s political anthem, January 26

Upcoming projects include the true crime docu-drama Speedway, the indie thriller You’ll Never Find Me, and music videos for Stace Cadet and JJ.

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EDWARD GOLDNER

Edward Goldner ACS is a cinematographer working across television drama, feature films, commercials and music videos.

Goldner recently shot season two of Love Me and is attached to several long-form projects shooting this year, including James Robinson’s debut feature First Light.

Early in his career, Goldner won Best Cinematography in the National Kodak Film School Competition for his work on Morning Star (dir. Jessica Barclay Lawton). Shortly after, he was named Emerging Cinematographer of the Year by the ACS and NFSA. The award provided Goldner with a grant to travel to Hungary and complete the Budapest Cinematography Masterclass under the tutelage of the late Vilmos Zsimond ASC HSC.

Since then, he has received over a dozen awards from the ACS, along with a number of festival awards.

Outside of his motion picture work, Goldner also regularly undertakes and exhibits personal photographic projects. These often examine isolated communities throughout the world, looking at the interplay between tradition and modernity. This work has taken him to extremely remote areas of Russia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Mauritania and Iran.

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SISSY REYES

Sissy Reyes is a Mexican-Australian cinematographer. Raised in vibrant Mexico, she has a passion for telling stories through colour and light.

With a background in fine art photography, Reyes developed her storytelling flair by crafting standalone narratives for each of her photos. She was awarded a NSW Artist grant and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant in support of her Arteles Artist Residency in Finland, where she produced the photo series The Martians are Coming, exhibited in 2017 in Australia and internationally.

Moving into cinematography, Reyes started working in corporate and video art, and was later awarded the ACS Drew Llewellyn Scholarship to attend Camerimage in November 2018. In 2021, Reyes moved to TV broadcast, shooting and editing documentaries for SBS’s The Feed, closely collaborating with journalists and executive producers. In 2022, she received a Walkley Award for outstanding Indigenous Affairs Journalism for Vanished: the unsolved cases of First Nations women. This also earnt her an ACS NSW Gold award. Reyes is currently freelance, working on documentary, factual and narrative projects.

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