David Sanderson

Camera operator

† January 1, 2010

Biography

David Sanderson was an Autralian cinematoprapher born in Narrabri, New South Wales. Moving to Sydney in 1966, he became a camera assistant at ABC television. Two years later, he joined the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Film Australia). In the 1970s, he studied cinematography at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He married American actor Hilary Bean. In 1980, he received an Emmy Award for cinematography in an episode of the children's television series, Once upon a Midnight Scary.

Filmography

5.9

The Georgia Peaches

A Southern gal who runs her family's auto repair shop, her aspiring country singer sister, and their stock-car racing friend who runs moonshine on the side are conned into working as government undercover agents to track down a dangerous criminal in this pilot to a prospective series.

6.4

The Plumber

A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.

5.2

The Night, the Prowler

Felicity Bannister is a young woman living in the shadow of her overpowering mother. Her oppression is her worst enemy until the day she is attacked by an intruder who breaks into her bedroom and forces Felicity into action. The tables are suddenly turned and Felicity transforms from the helpless victim into a ruthless renegade in search of trouble, driven by the anarchic thrill of malevolence.

4.6

Pandemonium

Azaria Chamberlain was not killed by a dingo but saved and raised by said dingos. She is raised in an incestuous dingo environment and travels back to Sydney transformed as the second coming... a new messiah for a new age.

N/A

Once Around the Sun

AT LAST, the long-lost film inspired by Australia's first rock festival - The Pilgrimage For Pop Festival - at Ourimbah, near Sydney in 1970.

10.0

Boundaries of the Heart

A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into asking her one more time. Stella's father Billy (Norman Kaye) is a former cricket star whose career ended early when he was involved in a sex scandal. She spends the night with vacationing Arthur (Michael Siberry) when his car breaks down. Andy elects not to pop the question to Stella in lieu of her one-night stand with the stranger. When Billy elects to marry June Thompson (Julie Nihill), the local gossipmongers have a field day recalling the woman's promiscuous past.

10.0

Harvest of Hate

A rich winemaker dispatches a woman lawyer and male surveyor-geologist to assess a farm property whereby it is discovered that terrorists are preparing to invade a middle east country.

9.0

The Great Gold Swindle

The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.

6.3

Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens

A group of aliens plans to invade Australia as a means of taking over the Earth. In order to communicate with the people of Earth, they bring a statue of the long-dead Duke of Edinburgh to life.

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