Professional Profile - July 2011

NICOLA DALEY UPDATE

Nicola Daley, Director of Photography, is celebrating!

Her third feature film ‘Black and White and Sex’ has just premiered at the 2011 Sydney Film Festival and created quite a buzz. The film revolves around an interview with Angie, a sex worker. The film was shot with four RED cameras in one studio in only 8 days and has been finished in luscious black and white.

Nicola also shot ‘The Hungry Tide’, Tom Zubrycki’s latest documentary about climate change in Kiribati. ‘The Hungry Tide’ has also screened at the prestigious Sydney Film Festival in the Foxtel Documentary competition and later in the year at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Nicola recently arrived back from Malaysia, Jordan and Iraq where she was shooting the SBS documentary series ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’. Riding around with the American army in Humvees in Baghdad wearing a flak jacket was a bit out of the ordinary for Nicola but then ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ will be an extraordinary documentary.

For the past few years Nicola has been shooting several documentaries including Curtis Levy’s ‘The Matilda Candidate’ and ‘Sex: An Unnatural History’ starring Julia Zemiro and produced by Matchbox Pictures.

Nicola has also found time to shoot feature films ‘Girl Clock’ and ‘Thirst’. ‘Thirst’ was shot with the RED one camera in the beautiful outback landscape of Broken Hill and stars Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Tom Green and Miles Pollard.

In her down time Nicola held her first photographic exhibit at Gallery East in Sydney last year. The exhibit was named ‘Children of the Sea’ and centred on the effects of rising sea levels in Kiribati. The exhibit was welcomed with critical acclaim.

Nicola is looking forward to more adventures in the second half of the year.

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