Simon Ozolins, ACS
Director of Photography
Simon Ozolins is a multi-award-winning cinematographer. Recent credits include the second series of The Other Guy (dir. Gracie Otto) for Stan and Aquarius Films; as well as Tomorrow, When the War Began (ABC, 2016) for Ambience Entertainment, for which he won a Gold ACS Award.
He won a Silver ACS Award for the feature film Crawlspace (dir. Justin Dix/ IFC Films, 2012). Simon’s short film credits include Skin (dir. Liselle Mei, 2015), The Wake (dir. Gemma Lee, 2009), Dugong (dir. Erin White, 2007) for which Simon won a Silver ACS Award, which screened at Sundance and received an AFI Award Nomination for Best Short Film. 62 Sleeps (2004) which was the first film he collaborated on with director Erin White won Best Short Film at both Sydney and Berlin Film Festivals.
Simon has shot a number of documentaries, including the AFI Award winning Inside the Firestorm (dir. Jacob Hickey/ ABC, 2010) and Immigration Nation (dir. Jacob Hickey/Ben Shackleford, 2011) for the ABC. He also shot the ABC satirical comedy At Home with Julia (dir. Erin White/ Quail Television, 2011).
Simon’s commercial credits extend to hundreds of major brands in both Australia and Internationally and he has won several Gold ACS Awards for his commercial work. He has a significant reputation in the music video industry, shooting the award winning ‘Walking on a Dream’ for Empire of the Sun winning the ARIA for best music video of the year and Billy Thorpe’s ‘Tangier’ for which he received the National Golden Tripod Award.
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