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STEPHEN WINDON ACS/ASC
Born: 1959, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, as Stephen [Steve] F. Windon, son of Ron Windon, a Fox Movietone newsreel and doc ph.
Education: Technical College, Sydney [graduated in 1977].
Career: Wanted to be a cameraman from the age of eight as his father, Ron, was a newsreel ph who became a commercial director and cameraman. After his study he started working for the Australian Broadcasting Commission [ABC]. He spent 6 years [as loader, c.op and ph] with ABC. During this period, he shot 26 tv-doc's, worked on drama series, and also worked as a news cameraman. 'I shot some of the last 16mm film when ABC-tv news was making the transition to ENG equipment in the 1980s. The CP-16 film camera was small, I had one Angénieux Zoom lens, on board batteries and a tripod, that was it! You remember how simple it was!' He left ABC to begin working as a 2uc on features and tv-dramas.
Ph commercials dir by Lance Kelleher, a.o.
Member of the ACS since 1989 and the ASC since 2015.
His brother Marc [born 1983] is a doph/dir and his brother Matthew is a 1st c.asst.
Awards: AFI [Aus] Award nom [1993] for 'No Worries'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1994] for 'Country Life'; ASC TV Award [2010], 'Emmy' Award nom [2010] & ACS 'Golden Tripod Award' [2011] for 'The Pacific' [ep #8 (ACS) & #9].
Website: Stephen F. Windon
| FILMS | |
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1985 |
Some Babies Die: An Exploration of Stillbirth and Neo-Natal Death [Martyn Down] c; doc/54m; cph: Garry Maunder |
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1985 |
Experience Australia: The Best Kept Secret in the World [Tristram Miall] 16mm/c; promotional doc/56m |
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1986 |
The Mystery of the Full Moon/Full Moon [Tristram Miall] c; doc/53m |
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1987 |
Labour of Love [Harriet Clutterbuck & Mary Moody] ?; doc/60m |
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1987 |
Kadaicha [the Death Stone]/Stones of Death [James Bogle] c |
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1987 |
Cane Toads - An Unnatural History [Mark Lewis] c; doc/46m; cph: Jim Frazier |
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1987 |
Sounds Like Australia [Jamie Robertson] c; doc/54m; cph: Jim Frazier; addph: Mick Bornemann |
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1987 |
'Crocodile' Dundee II [John Cornell] p/c; 2uc Australia; ph: Russell Boyd |
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1990 |
The Wonderful World of Dogs [Mark Lewis] 16mm/c; doc/52m; cph: Tony Wilson |
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1991 |
Love In Limbo/Just One Night/The Great Pretender [David Elfick] c |
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1992 |
No Worries [David Elfick] c |
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1993 |
Rapa Nui [Kevin Reynolds] p/c; 2uc: Geoffrey Wharton |
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1993 |
Country Life [Michael Blakemore] c |
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1994 |
Rupert [Christopher Robin Collins] c; short/27m |
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1996 |
Hotel de Love [Craig Rosenberg] c |
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1996 |
Firestorm [Dean Semler] p/c; 2uc: John Stokes |
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1997 |
The Postman [Kevin Costner] p/c; vfx ph: Philipp Timme |
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1997 |
The Patriot [Dean Semler] p/c; 2uc: Richard Merryman |
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1998 |
Deep Blue Sea [Renny Harlin] s35/c; 2uc: Gary Capo; efx ph: David Stump |
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2001 |
The Tuxedo [Kevin Donovan] c; 2uc: Glen Keenan; addph: Jeff Valeri; vfx ph: Robbi Hinds |
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2001 |
Darkness Falls/Don't Peek [Jonathan Liebesman] s35/c; addph; ph: Dan Laustsen |
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2003 |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid [Dwight H. Little] s35/c; 2uc: Mark Wareham; aph: John Trapman |
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2004 |
House of Wax [Jaume Collet-Serra] c; 2uc: Marc Spicer; aph: Phil Pastuhov |
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2005 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift [Justin Lin] s35/c; 2uc: Jan Kiesser & (Tokyo) Jun Fukumoto; addph: Leo Napolitano; aph: Douglas Holgate & Phil Pastuhov |
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2009 |
Cradlewood [Harry Weinmann] pre-production (in development since 2004) |
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2009 |
Needle [John V. Soto] s35+RED One-to-35mm scope/c |
"Fast Five"
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2010 |
Fast Five/Fast & Furious 5 [Justin Lin] s35 (+ IMAX-70bu & D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Alexander Witt (uncred) (+ 2ud train heist) & Igor Meglic; insert unit ph: Tom Clancey; aph: Hans Bjerno, Steve Koster & (Monaco) Adam Dale; aph 2u: Ronald Hersey |
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2011 |
A Few Best Men [Stephan Elliott] HD (ARRI ALEXA) scope/c; addph (+ aph): David Knight |
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2011 |
G.I. Joe: Retaliation [John M. Chu] s35 (+ D-Cinema [also 3-D version])/c; 2uc: Patrick Loungway; Washington D.C. ph: Mark H. Weingartner; aph: David B. Nowell (British Columbia), Hans Bjerno (uncred), Michael Kelem (uncred) & Phil Pastuhov (uncred) |
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2012 |
Furious 6/Fast & Furious 6/Fast Six [Justin Lin] s35+HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus)-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Igor Meglic; addph: Goran Pavicevic; ph splinter unit: Peter Talbot; aph: Steve Koster & John Marzano |
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2013 |
Avatar 2 [James Cameron] announced; scheduled for 2014-15 shooting, later 2016; ph by Russell Carpenter in 2017-18 |
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2013 |
Furious Seven/Furious 7/Fast & Furious 7 [James Wan] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT & XT M + Sony F55)+s35+35mm+RED Epic Dragon-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c; cph (finished film in mid-2014, following a hiatus in filming after the death of actor Paul Walker on November 30, 2013) (+ vfx ph [splinter unit Abu Dhabi]): Marc Spicer; 2uc: Igor Meglic & Jacques Haitkin; aph 2u: Dylan Goss & Steve Koster; vfx ph: Robert Bock; vfx miniature ph: Alex Funke |
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2015 |
Star Trek Beyond/Star Trek 3 [Justin Lin] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT/Master Scope)+RED Epic Dragon-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema [also 3-D version])/c; 2uc: Bruce McCleery; aph: Steve Koster; + reshoots in 2016 |
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2016 |
The Fate of the Furious/Fast 8 [F. Gary Gray] HD (ARRI ALEXA XT Plus + Sony F55 + Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera)+RED Weapon Dragon-to-D-Cinema (scope)/c; 2uc: Jacques Haitkin; aph 2u: David B. Nowell; splinter/vfx unit ph (Cuba): Marc Spicer; Edge Arm ph (Cuba): Greg Baldi |
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2018 |
Sonic the Hedgehog [Jeff Fowler] HD (ARRI ALEXA SXT & Mini)/c; 2uc: Peter Collister |
| TELEVISION | |
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1984 |
On a Wing and a Prayer [Michael Balson] doc/49m |
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1986 |
The Challenge [Chris Thomson] 3-part (originally 6-part) miniseries; ?; ph: Russell Boyd |
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1988 |
Prejudice [Ian Munro] docudrama/98m |
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1988 |
Mission: Impossible [ep #16 'The Plague' dir by Colin Budds (CB) & #18 'Submarine' dir by CB] 35-part series, 1988-90; other ph: Ron Hagen & Barry M. Wilson; revival of the USA series (1966-73); filmed in Australia |
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198? |
A Big Country [various] 300+-part doc series, 1968-87 & 1991-92 |
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1990 |
Come in Spinner [Robert Marchand] 4-part miniseries; addph: Stephen Prime |
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1990 |
Act of Necessity/Cotton [Ian Munro] tvm |
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1990 |
Police Rescue [various] pilot (1989) + 61-part series, 1991-96; other ph: Steve Arnold & Russell Bacon |
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1991 |
Children of the Dragon/The Sign of the Snake [Peter Smith] 4-part miniseries (1992) |
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1991 |
The Leaving of Liverpool [Michael Jenkins] 2-part tvm |
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1994 |
In Pursuit of Honor/Fiddlers Green [Ken Olin] tvm; 2uc: John Stokes |
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1995 |
Naked [: Stories of Men] [various] 6-part series/s16, 1996; other ph: Mandy Walker & Tristan Milani |
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1995 |
The Bite [Michael Carson] 2-part tvm/16mm |
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2000 |
[Rodgers & Hammerstein's] South Pacific [Richard Pearce] tvm; 2uc: Ian Thorburn |
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2001 |
[Louis L'Amour's] The Diamond of Jeru [Ian Barry & Dick Lowry] tvm |
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2003 |
Future Tense [Jean de Segonzac] pilot; for NBC-tv |
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2007 |
The Pacific [ep #3 'Melbourne' dir by Jeremy Podeswa (JP), #4 'Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika' dir by Graham Yost, #8 'Iwo Jima' dir by David Nutter & JP, #9 'Okinawa' dir by Timothy Van Patten & #10 'Home' dir by JP] 10-part miniseries/s35-to-HD, 2010; other ph: Remi Adefarasin; vfx ph: Richard Chapelle; 'Remi and I were on the same page with the look of 'The Pacific'. And I think that we have a similar lighting style and approach. Albeit our scripts were very unique in writing and direction style, essentially we were shooting ten one hour feature films! Both of us wanted small lightweight 35mm cameras. We both felt that Arricam LT's and Arriflex 235's were ideal for our productions. We needed packages that would crossover from large handheld battle sequences to lavish studio sets. I wanted excellent glass on the front, but it also needed to be lightweight. For this reason both of us chose Zeiss Ultra Primes.' |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
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1988 |
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy [Chris Thomson; 2-part tvm] c.op; ph: Andrew Lesnie |
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1988 |
The Rescue [Ferdinand Fairfax] c.op 2u; ph: Russell Boyd |
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2015 |
Full Throttle [dir] pre-production (in development since 1999); scheduled to start filming in 2016; ph: ? |
