Manaki Brothers Festival 2024, 45th edition

Interview With John Seale, ACS, ASC

By François Reumont, for the l’AFC

Contre-Champ AFC n°359

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John Seale, ACS, ASC is one of Australia’s most famous director of photography (along with Dean Semler and more recently Greig Fraser). Working with his compatriot and director friend Peter Weir on most of his greatest films (Picnic at Hanging Rock, as cameraman, then Witness and The Dead Poets Society) he is also the DoP of several George Miller films (including Lorenzo’s Oil or Mad Max Fury Road).
He also won the 1996 Best Picture Academy Award for The English Patient, by Anthony Minghella. He is the president of the jury of the 45th Manaki Brothers festival and comes to talk to us, among other things, about colors, control and tolerance.... (FR)
  • See the interview conducted by François Reumont as part of the 45th edition of the Manaki Brothers Festival:

    https://vimeo.com/1012163663/7221f2d8f5