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Courtesy of Yuri Sokol

 

   

YURI SOKOL   ACS

 

Born: 21 September 1937, Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR, as Yuri Vasilyevich Sokol [Юрий Васильевич Сокол].

Education: VGIK, Moscow [1954-61]; Moscow State Institute of Culture [postgraduate studies, 1977-78].

Career: Worked at Kirghizfilm, Tadjikfilm and, from 1968, Mosfilm.

Is the owner of Dilankex Pty. Ltd. [1982-present], a film/video prod company. Was developer and managing director of the Waterloo Studios, South Sydney, Australia [1986-92]. Was chairman [1997-2000] of SpaceLift Australia Ltd. [a satellite launching service]. Is managing director of NanoTag Technology Pty. Ltd [2009-present], a manufacturer of electrical equipment.

Ph 90+ commercials.

Also active as director.

Member of the ACS since 1985.

Lecturer on film and photography in the USSR [1974-78] and Australia [1981-98].

Was the promoter and organizer of 2 major art exhibitions in Australia: 'Secret Treasures of Russia - 1,000 Years of Russian Gold & Silver' [1993] & 'Kandinsky & Russian Avant-Garde' [1996].

Awards: Film Festival of Central Asia 'Cinematography Award' [1967] for 'Pereklichka/Roll-Call'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1983] for 'Man of Flowers'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1984] for 'My First Wife'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1987] for 'Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train'; ACS 'Golden Tripod Award' [1987] for 'Fragments of War - The Story of Damien Parer'; ACS 'Milli' Award 'Australian Cinematographer of the Year' [1988], ACS 'Golden Tripod Award' [1988] & AFI [Aus] Award nom [1989] for 'Georgia'.

 

 FILMS

1961

Znoy/Heat/Desert Heat [Larisa Shepitko] b&w; cph: Vladimir Arkhangelsky; prod Kirghizfilm/VGIK

1962

Bibisara [Yuz Girshtein] ?; docudrama/?m; + efx ph

1964

Dzhura/Djura/Jura [Adolf Bergunker] b&w; prod Kirghizfilm

1965

Pereklichka/Roll-Call [Daniil Khrabrovitsky] b&w; prod Tadjikfilm

1967

I nikto drugoy/And Nobody Else [Iosif Shulman] b&w; prod Belarusfilm

1969

Gori, gori, moya zvezda/Shine, O! Shine, My Star/Shine Brightly, My Star/The Comedy About Iskremas [Aleksander Mitta] c; prod Mosfilm

1971

Vid na zhitel'stvo/Residence Permit [Omari Gvasaliya & Aleksander Stefanovich] b&w; prod Mosfilm

1972

Molchaniye doktora Ivensa/The Silence of Dr. Evans/Doctor Evans' Silence [Budimir Metalnikov & (creative dir) Sergei Bondarchuk] c; + efx ph; cph: Vladimir Bondarev; prod Mosfilm

1975

Krasnoye yabloko/The Red Apple [Tolomush Okeyev] c; sfx ph; ph: Konstantin Orozaliev; prod Kirghizfilm

1977

Tryasina/Netipichnaya istoriya/The Mire/Quagmire [Grigori Chukhraj] c; cph: Mikhail Demurov; prod Mosfilm

1981

Lonely Hearts [Paul Cox] c

1983

Man of Flowers [Paul Cox] c; 2uc: Nino Martinetti

1984

Touchstone [Robert Plasto-Lehner] 16mm/c; docudrama/?m; ep #1 of 'Frontiers'-series

1984

Anna [Gordon Glenn] 16mm/c; short/46m; addph: Ellery Ryan

1984

My First Wife [Paul Cox] c

1985

Cactus [Paul Cox] c

1986

Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train [Bob Ellis] c; 2uc: Nino Martinetti

1988

Georgia/A Difficult Woman [Ben Lewin] c

1990

Struck by Lightning/Heartbreakers/Saltmarsh [Jerzy Domaradzki] c

1991

Diary of a Hit Man [Roy London] c

1993

H.M.A.V Bounty/The Bounty/Ol' Three-Eyes Is Back [John Steven Lasher] Kinopanorama (2.75:1)/c; doc/19m; + co-tech liaison; cph: John R. McLean; The length of the final film (3-strip) is estimated at 10m actual footage, plus a 3m prologue (center panel only), a film music overture (2m30s), end credits (3m) and exit music under one minute. The screenplay is structured around a cruise aboard 'The Bounty'. Additional footage will be of Australian beaches and a cricket match between Australia and England (never completed). Film stock is old daylight 'ortho' Sovcolor stock (around 16 ASA) and more recent Sovcolor stock

1994

Urn [Miro Bilbrough] c; exp short/6m; addph: Joanne Parker

1998

Cas dluhu/A Time of Debts [Irena Pavlásková] c

2002

The Kinopanorama Experience [John Steven Lasher] Kinopanorama/c; doc/30m

 

 TELEVISION

1974

Tri dnia v Moskve/Three Days in Moscow [Aleksei Korenev] 2-part tvm/133m; prod Mosfilm

1981

Women of the Sun [ep #3 (57m) 'Nerida Anderson, 1939' dir by Stephen Wallace] 4-part doc series/16mm; cph: Ross Berryman; other ph: Dan Burstall (#1), Ian Dewhurst (#2) & Nino Martinetti (#4)

1982

Class of '39 [Frank Heimans] 3-part doc series/16mm

1984

Death and Destiny: A Journey Into Ancient Egypt [Paul Cox] doc/55m & 72m/16mm

1985

Winners [ep #2 'Just Friends' dir by Michael Pattinson & #4 'The Paper Boy' dir by Paul Cox] 8-part (x 50m) series/16mm; followed by 'More Winners' (1990)

1985

Fran [Glenda Hambly] tvm/16mm; addph; ph: Jan Kenny

1985

Remember Me/Old Acquaintances [Lex Marinos] tvm/16mm; also released theatrically

1985

Handle with Care [Paul Cox] docudrama/54m/16mm

1985

The Tree of Man [treatment by Michael le Moignan & Larry Lucas] planned miniseries; unrealized

1985

Return to Eden [John Power, Arch Nicholson, a.o.] 22-part series, 1986; other ph: Martin McGrath & Murray Ware

1986

Black Futures [Yuri Sokol] 6-part doc series/16mm: ep #1 'Eora corroboree' (co-d: Michael Le Moignan & Barbara Chobocky; 59m; ph: Michael Edols), #2 'Building Dreams' (co-d: Michael Le Moignan; 56m), #3 'Getting Better' (co-d: Larry Lucas; 57m), #4 'Still Time', #5 'Reflections on Silver Screens' & #6 'The Land Owns Us'

1986

Fragments of War - The Story of Damien Parer [John Duigan] tvm/16mm

1989

Rods, Strings, Shadows, and Gloves [Lex Marinos] doc/30m

1993

Romanov [Yuri Sokol] doc/54m/b&w-c; + prod/co-scrpl; for SBS-tv

 

 MISCELLANEOUS

1971

Alyye maki Issyk-Kulya/The Red Poppies of Issyk-Kul [Bolotbek Shamshiyev] co-scrpl; ph: Viktor Osennikov

1986

Shark's Paradise [Michael Jenkins; tvm] visual superv; ph: Martin McGrath

1993

Chastity Truth and Kinopanorama [John Steven Lasher; doc/5m (in Kinopanorama)] assoc prod; ph: Sergei Rozhkov; only festival screening in March 1997; restored in 2002

 

 DOCUMENTARIES AS DIRECTOR

1986

Black Futures [+ co-dir/ph] see Television

1993

Romanov [+ prod/co-scrpl/ph] see Television