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DP Simon Gray
2008-12-02
Simon Gray is an award-winning cinematographer based in Sydney,
Australia. In May 2007, Simon took out top honours at the National ACS Awards for his work on
the short film Afterlife, as well as a Silver Award at the Qld ACS Awards. During 2006, Simon
garnered six ACS Awards, including Gold for Afterlife and Silver for The Butterfly Man, winner of
The Golden Cub at the 2005 IDFA Film Festival. In the same year, The Sea, which Simon also
wrote and directed, was invited to screen at Camerimage, the world’s leading Festival of
Cinematography. In 2004, Simon was the only Australian cinematography student to be
selected for the prestigious international Budapest Cinematography Masterclass. He received a
Gold ACS Award, the Judges Award and a National ACS Award of Distinction, for his work on
the documentary Sex, Drugs and String Quartets, which screened on the ABC.