Anna Howard

Películas

Araatika: Rise Up!
Cinematography
For Indigenous Australian rugby league players, a pre-game ‘unity dance’ is an important step towards celebrating their cultures and combating entrenched racism.
Girls Can't Surf
Director of Photography
It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluorescent colors, peroxide hair and radical male egos. "Girls Can't Surf" follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, "Girls Can't Surf" is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.
Brazen Hussies
Director of Photography
BRAZEN HUSSIES reveals for the first time, an exciting and revolutionary chapter in Australian history, the Women’s Liberation Movement (1965 -1975). Interweaving freshly uncovered archival footage, personal photographs, memorabilia and lively personal accounts from activists all around Australia, BRAZEN HUSSIES shows us how a daring and diverse group of women joined forces to defy the status quo, demand equality and create profound social change. These women defined one of the greatest social movements of the 20th Century, at times at great personal cost. This documentary is full of the raw energy and determination that fueled feminism for the next 50 years.
Risen
Director of Photography
A young teen struggles to navigate the floating drug world of the west, haunted by a familial past and an unknown future. A lone wolf comes to his defence, but it will take more than friendship to survive.
Machine
Cinematography
If machines can be smarter than people, is humanity really anything special?
Rabbit
Cinematography
A year after her identical twin's disappearance, Maude Ashton is still haunted by visions of her sister's violent abduction. Convinced she is still alive, Maude follows the clues to a derelict caravan park.
Birdie
Cinematography
A casual gesture of friendliness quickly spirals into a paralysing moment for a woman on a train.
Nan and a Whole Lot of Trouble
Cinematography
All the trouble that Nan has come to blows over, may be the same trouble that brings the family together.
Las mujeres que desnudó
Cinematography
Largometraje biográfico sobre el diseñador de vestuario australiano Orry-Kelly, ganador de tres Oscars de la Academia por Con faldas y a lo loco, de Billy Wilder, Un americano en Paris, de Vincente Minelli y Las Girls, de George Cukor.
Errors of the Human Body
Cinematography
Buscando un nuevo laboratorio donde llevar a cabo una polémica investigación genética, el Dr. Geoff Burton encuentra un lugar en el reputado Institute for Molecular Cell Biology
South Solitary
Director of Photography
Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.
Saved
Director of Photography
The advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention. Amir Ali claims to be an Iranian student persecuted by the government but the Department of Immigration dispute his identity. When Julia meets Amir, he is severely depressed and close to deportation. Julia throws herself obsessively into Amir's case, causing friction between Julia and her husband, Peter. Julia eventually frees Amir and the young Iranian man moves in with Peter and Julia. As Julia helps Amir adjust to ordinary life, she finds herself increasingly attracted to this handsome, damaged young man. But she also starts to see the subtle cracks in Amir's story. Is he really who he claims he is? Or does he have a darker, more dangerous history?
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
Director of Photography
This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni.., the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes away from her ordinary life and leaves behind her malfunctioning Jewish family to hang out with Sunni's far breezier and super-hip single mom Mary and attend Sunni's forbidden public school as a Swedish exchange student.
What Grown-Ups Know
Director of Photography
Teenage boy Roy and his ailing mother Elizabeth live an aimless life on the road, shuttling between gas stations, temp jobs and cheap motels. When they end up at a desolate caravan park, fractures begin to appear in Roy's relationship with his mother as he starts to fall head over heels for park manager Maurice.
Gate
Director of Photography
A whodunnit on a sheepstation.
Erskineville Kings
Camera Operator
Barky, un chico de 25 años, vuelve de los campos australianos de cañas de azúcar a su ciudad natal, la ciudad interior de Erskineville. Barky se fue hace dos años para escapar de su alcohólico y abusivo padre, dejando atrás todo lo que le importaba en el mundo. Su hermano, Wace. Su novia, Lanny. Su vida. Ahora que su padre ha muerto, cree que es seguro volver a casa, pero Barky pronto descubre que si marcharse fue difícil, volver es aún más duro. Wace es frío. Barky huyó como había huido su madre. Wace consiguó superarlo, y permaneció junto a su moribundo padre. Después de dos años sin explicación alguna, ¿podrá Lanny volver con Barky?
The Wiggles Movie
Focus Puller
As the Wiggles prepare a surprise party for their friend Dorothy the Dinosaur, she goes after a magician who has stolen Greg's magic wand.
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Additional Camera
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy. The plot then splits into a series of parallels, flash forwards and flashbacks. One depicts Ralph’s imprisonment after being framed for drug trafficking. The other follows the dramatic ascent of his career to hype status and the pairing between the dynamic Patsy and himself.
Más allá de Rangún
First Assistant "B" Camera
Birmania, agosto de 1988. Después de la trágica muerte de su marido y su hijo, Laura Bowman (Arquette) viaja con su hermana (McDormand) a Birmania. En Rangún, asiste conmovida a una manifestación popular contra la dictadura militar que oprime al país. A partir de ese momento, su vida adquiere un nuevo sentido.
En el corazón de la jungla
First Assistant "B" Camera
Transcurre en la jungla panameña y narra la acción de un grupo de especialistas contra los rebeldes que quieren derrocar el régimen democrático.
El manto negro
First Assistant Camera
A mediados del siglo XVII, un sacerdote jesuita francés, el padre Laforque, emprende un peligroso viaje hacia lo que luego sería conocido como el norte de Canadá, y que en esa época era una tierra salvaje dominada por los indios hurones e iroqueses. Junto a un joven local que será su intérprete, Laforque aprenderá algo sobre aquellos a quienes pretende evangelizar, poseedores de sus propios valores espirituales, y también aprenderá algo sobre esa fe interna que él veía como algo inconmovible
Shadows of the Peacock
Focus Puller
The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.