Dany Cooper, ASE

Editor

Dany Cooper is one of Australia’s best known and most respected editors with an enviable body of work across film and television. Dany's recent credits include Blue Tongue Films  Judy + Punch (dir. Mirrah Foulkes), which has earned Dany her tenth ASE Award nomination as well as an AACTA nomination, it had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival; as well as I am Woman (dir. Unjoo Moon, 2019) the highly anticipated Helen Reddy biopic for Goalpost Pictures which bowed at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.

Dany edited Causeway Film’s Cargo (dir. Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke/ Causeway Films, 2018); Simon Baker’s Breath (See Pictures, 2018), for which she has earned an AACTA nominations for Best Editing in a Feature Film and won the ASE Award in the same category, and Jim Loach’s Measure of a Man (Taylor Lane Productions, 2018).

Other credits include Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man (2015) with Goalpost Pictures, Deadline Gallipoli (dir. Michael Rymer/ Matchbox Pictures, 2015), series one and two of Redfern Now (Dir. Catriona McKenzie, Wayne Blair/ Blackfella Films, 2013) and the series Puberty Blues (dir. Glendyn Ivin/ Souther Star, 2013).  Dany edited the hit film The Sapphires for Goalpost Pictures (dir. Wayne Blair, 2012), which screened at Cannes 2012 and opened MIFF as well as screening at Telluride and Toronto in which she received an ASE Award Nomination and won the AACTA Award for Best Editing.

She was nominated for a 2004 Emmy Award for her work on the TV miniseries Battlestar Galactica (dir. Michael Rymer/ Sci-Fi Channel) for Universal Pictures. Other US work includes television pilot Haunted USA (Paramount/ Viacom, 2002), Queen of the Damned (dir. Michael Rymer/ Warner Bros., 2002), The Monkey’s Mask (dir. Samantha Lang/ Arena Films, 2000), and In Too Deep (dir. Michael Rymer, 1999) for Miramax.

Dany was nominated for AFI Awards for The Well (dir. Samantha Lang/ Southern Star, 1997), Candy (dir. Neil Armfield/ Sherman Pictures, 2005), Beneath Hill 60 (dir. Jeremy Sims/ Paramount, 2009), which won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award and the ASE Award and Angel Baby (dir. Michael Rymer/ Meridian Films, 1994), for which Dany won the AFI Award. She was also nominated for an AACTA Award for Oranges and Sunshine (dir. Jim Loach/ SeeSaw Films, 2010) starring Emily Watson for which she also received an IF nomination and won the ASE Award.

 Her other Australian credits include December Boys (dir. Rod Hardy/ Becker Films, 2006), Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger (dir. Cathy Randall/ EB Productions, 2008) and Australia (additional editor – dir. Baz Luhrmann/ 20th Century Fox, 2008).

Dany recently completed work on the Stan original series The Commons (dir. Jeffrey Walker, 2019). She is currently cutting the highly anticipated feature adaptation of the critically acclaimed stage production, The Drover’s Wife, for director Leah Purcell and Bunya Productions.

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