After working as a freelance record and mix engineer while completing a Bachelor of Sound Engineering in Brisbane, Daniel moved to New York City and worked in film & television as a sound editor and designer on productions such as the Emmy-winning documentary When I Walk, feature-western Dawn of Conviction and New York music and discussion show, The Facts. Returning to Australia, Daniel moved to Sydney where he continues to work as a sound designer on local and international productions, most recently the Namibia Nine, a documentary on nine Namibians who fled persecution and migrated to the United States.
Daniel’s critical writing is published on www.filmaday.com.au and has been published on Sydney Arts Guide. He has also just completed the production of his screenplay, Blue Morning, through Sydney production house FiveTwenty.
HACKSAW RIDGE arrives ten years after Mel Gibson’s previous directorial effort, the near-excellent APOCALYPTO, and follows an industry-imposed absence from filmmaking after repeated personal indiscretions. Gibson returned to the screen as an actor in 2010’s EDGE OF DARKNESS. Gibson’s difficulties …
THE SHALLOWS arrives in theaters with a great deal of anticipation. The film’s marketing campaign has focused on it’s minimal setting and straight forward narrative—a drawn out game of cat and mouse as a surfer tries to make it out …
Mark Elijah Rosenberg writes and directs his first feature, APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN, with a keen appreciation of scientific ingenuity and human life but without an understanding of the artistry required to translate these ideas into a cinematic experience.
The story …
On September 11, two thousand and one, four commercial airliners were hijacked in the United States and used to attack key US landmarks. Three days later the United States Congress passed the Authorised Use of Military Force (AUMF) bill, authorising …
THE WITCH arrives in Australian cinemas thirteen months after its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, during which time the initial, glowing reviews have helped establish the film’s own mythicism. Robert Eggers’ THE WITCH is a horror film in the …
ZOOLANDER 2 occupies strange territory—both in its own art and in its place within the popular culture of 2016.
It’s interesting to think about what Ben Stiller, the film’s writer and director, thinks of its place in the world …
Throughout the history of Japan cherry blossoms have been a symbol of life, death and rebirth.
Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase’s latest film, AN, from a script written by Kawase based on the book by Durian Sukegawa, explores these themes …
Access is a recurring theme in modern journalism discourse—direct access to source, access to content and access to the abilities to churn out journalistic content at an alarming rate—where it is no longer a matter of if but when we …
Ryan Coogler’s CREED is a rhapsodic exploration of life imbued with the filmmaker’s own social conscious and intelligence.
His previous film, Fruitvale Station, was a commanding work, both angry and vital without ever being truly inventive. Building on the …
Terrence Malick’s follow up to 2013’s dazzling To The Wonder is another meditation on the human world and the relationships and bodies that inhabit it. It’s an introspective work intensely engendering the world he interacts with.
Malick’s stylistic choices …
