Episode 034: Mandy Walker
Episode 34 of The Blank Canvas Podcast with Mandy Walker.
The first cinematographer to appear on The Blank Canvas, Mandy Walker was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. She started out as a clapper loader and worked her way up through the camera department on documentaries, feature films, commercials and music videos, and shot her first feature film, Return Home, at the age of twenty-five.
Mandy has since notched up 20 feature film credits as director of photography and has filmed over a hundred high end international commercials, including the commercial-films for Chanel No. 5 which were directed by Baz Luhrmann and feature Nicole Kidman, and more recently with supermodel Gisele.
Mandy is a sitting Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the American Society of Cinematographers. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Australian Cinematographers Society. She was the Kodak Artist in Residence at UCLA film school and in 2015 she received the Kodak Cinematography Mentor of the Year Award.
There’s no doubt Mandy is very talented but I believe what makes her so sought after by the top directors is her strength as a storyteller, of course being a joy to collaborate counts for a lot too! She works across a broad array of genres in everything from small character based ‘art films’ to the the 200 million dollar Disney epic MULAN.
Other credits include Academy Award nominated Hidden Figures, The Mountain Between Us (Kate Winslet, Idris Elba) Truth (Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford), Red Riding Hood (Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman), Jane Got A Gun (Natalie Portman), the Aussie classic Lantana, Baz’s Lurhman’s movie Australia and Mandy is currently shooting Baz’s latest movie “Untitled Elvis Presley Project”, which stars Tom Hanks.
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