Geoff Burton

Geoff Burton began his professional career in 1963 as a Film Trainee at the ABC in Sydney. He graduated in cinematography and after an enforced stint in the Australian Army Burton moved to Britain and worked for the BBC, mostly on their mammoth Time-Life co-production, The British Empire. On its completion he re-located to Geneva and from there free-lanced as a documentary director/cinematographer.

In 1972 Burton returned to Australia working as a Director of Photography. Previous credits include SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY, STORM BOY, A STREET TO DIE, THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE, FLIRTING, SIRENS, THE SUM OF US, AFTERSHOCKS, FLIGHT OVER THE EQUATOR, THE ACTOR AND THE PRESIDENT, AUSTRALIANS AT WAR and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE which premiered at the 2004 Sydney Film Festival.

Filmography

AFTERSHOCKS » AFTERSHOCKS is a film examining the experiences of eleven people who were in the Newcastle Workers’ Club at the time of a serious earthquake in December 1989...