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Documentary Cinematography

Nice Trees is the production and production equipment part of award-winning Australian cinematographer Cunningham ACS. Ben is renowned for his work in natural history and documentary.  

 

He has shot for BBC, Netflix, National Geographic, Apple TV, and ABC, contributing to acclaimed series such as Tiny World, Night On Earth, A Year On planet Earth, Great Migrations, Attenborough’s The Mating Game, Life in Colour, and The Secret World of Sound—for which he was part of the Emmy-winning cinematography team. Ben is a regular contributor to ABC's Back Roads series.

 

The Pool, one of Ben's recent films won the Australian Cinematographers Society Gold Tripod award for best cinematography in a documentary.

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His next film The Valley, a Wiseman-esque portrait of rural life recently premiered at Sydney International Film Festival. 

 

Ben is currently shooting a Feature Doc titled Dingo Mountain.

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