Geoff Burton

Películas

After The Credits
Cinematography
We've seen it a hundred times before - boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back, and they live happily ever after. Until the credits roll. And after that, it's a completely different story.
Lost in Flanders
Director
Ninety years after the last shots were fired, two young Australian historians embark on an emotional journey to the battlefields of the First World War on the infamous Western Front.
Lucky Miles
Cinematography
It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to escape arrest, begin an epic journey into the heart of Australia.
Hell Has Harbour Views
Director of Photography
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
After the Deluge
Director of Photography
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
Sydney: A Story of a City
Director
Virginia, a young and adventurous woman, travels from England to Sydney, Australia, in search of her Australian ancestors.
Zarpas
Director of Photography
Un chico de 14 años se hace cargo de un perro que parece abandonado. Pero el animal esconde un gran secreto...
Vivo o muerto
Director of Photography
Jay es un joven coreano que está viviendo en Sydney, y que aspira a convertirse en una estrella del cine. Y además, es idéntico físicamenta a Sunny Chow, un gángster que acaba de organizar una matanza a gran escala de varios miembros del hampa. Para avanzar en sus investigaciones, la policía decide montar un reality-show televisivo, aunque necesita un actor protagonista. Jay es el elegido...
Reprisal
Director of Photography
Sixteen years after returning home, three disillusioned Australian Vietnam conscripts use their army skills to plan and execute the country's biggest bank robbery. And they get away with it. Seven years pass and a petty criminal convicted as the driver in the heist is released from gaol. When his body is fished out of the harbour the grim murder reignites the case.
Whipping Boy
Director of Photography
A female lawyer heads a government taskforce investigating a suspected paedophile racket in Sydney. Based on the novel by Gabrielle Lord.
Brilliant Lies
Director of Photography
Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00.
Hotel Sorrento
Director of Photography
Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir in Sorrento and in her family when it is supected that the book is not as fictional as she claims.
Nosotros dos
Cinematography
En Sydney, Harry Mitchell trabaja como conductor de un transbordador, es viudo y un empedernido bebedor de cerveza. Su única preocupación es encontrar una mujer para acabar definitivamente con su soledad. Su hijo Jeff es fontanero, jugador de rugby, también bebedor de cerveza y gay. Los dos buscan el amor por caminos diferentes.
Nosotros dos
Director
En Sydney, Harry Mitchell trabaja como conductor de un transbordador, es viudo y un empedernido bebedor de cerveza. Su única preocupación es encontrar una mujer para acabar definitivamente con su soledad. Su hijo Jeff es fontanero, jugador de rugby, también bebedor de cerveza y gay. Los dos buscan el amor por caminos diferentes.
Sirenas
Director of Photography
A principios de los 30, en Sidney, la jerarquía eclesiástica se escandaliza ante un grabado del célebre y libertino pintor Norman Lindsay, que muestra a una voluptuosa mujer en inequívoca postura sobre una cruz. Anthony Campion, un joven clérigo recién llegado de Inglaterra con su esposa, es el encargado de convencer a Lindsay para que no exhiba esa obra en una próxima exposición en Londres. Convertidos en huéspedes del pintor, pronto el reverendo Campion y su mujer se verán envueltos en el clima provocador y erótico que impera en el lugar.
The Nostradamus Kid
Director of Photography
The spiritual and sexual coming of age of a Seventh-Day Adventist boy in 1950s Australia. Ken Elkin is a "randy young man" who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there's only one goal Ken wants to accomplish: bedding the love of his life, who just happens to be the local pastor's daughter.
Bedevil
Director of Photography
Three stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick, an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years
Los impostores
Director of Photography
El investigador de seguros Roland Copping (Phil Collins) manipula y estafa sin pudor incluso a sus familiares y amigos. Pero un día sufre la venganza de una pareja que presenta una inusual reclamación.
El gran mar de los Sargazos
Director of Photography
1840. Una jóven propietaria de tierras en Jamaica se casa con un inglés recien llegado para no perder su propiedad. Todo parece ser perfecto, el amor surge, y la felicidad está en camino, pero ella esconde un antiguo secreto sobre su infancia y su madre. Poco a poco, este secreto comienza a erosionar la relación perfecta y, quizás, la historia de su madre empezará de nuevo... con ella.
Garbo
Director of Photography
Comedy about two Australian garbage collectors starring Los Trios Ringbarkus.
Aya
Director of Photography
Aya, a young Japanese war bride, arrives in a small Australian town during the 1950s. She and her husband, Frank, are very much in love. Yet somehow Aya still feels more comfortable with the Japanese-speaking Mac, a close friend of Frank's, whose wartime experiences left him with a deep regard for Japanese culture. But Frank wants Aya to forget her Japanese past. Aya finds work in a Japanese restaurant and has a short affair with an Australian-Japanese businessman. With her marriage falling apart, Aya leaves Frank.
The Last Crop
Director of Photography
Ann (Kerry Walker) cleans for a living. She confronts problems like a vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt from the carpet. She shares everything she has with her two moody children (Noah Taylor, Sarah Hooper) and her equally erratic neighbours. She also shares everything her rich and constantly out-of-town employers have. While Ann vacuums her clients’ penthouses, her friends enjoy the million dollar views, luxury appointments, home gyms, cocktails by the pool - the things they have always wanted, but could never in their wildest dreams afford.
La primera experiencia
Director of Photography
Australia, años sesenta. Danny Embling es un joven estudiante interno en una escuela privada para chicos que se enamora de Thandiwe, una alumna de raza negra hija de un diplomático de Uganda. El problema es que la timidez de Danny le impide mostrarle sus sentimientos.
Romero
Director of Photography
Narra la historia del arzobispo salvadoreño Oscar Romero, que desde su importante cargo eclesiástico se dedicó sin temor a criticar la desigualdad social y la represión del gobierno de El Salvador, y que murió asesinado en el año 1980, en los comienzos de lo que sería la Guerra Civil Salvadoreña.
El guerrero del cuarto milenio
Director of Photography
Corre el año 4039, la Tierra se ha convertido en un desolado campo de batalla. Hordas de robots asesinos creados por el hombre, tratan de imponer su particular reino del terror, destruyendo todo a su paso y amenazando con llevar a la humanidad a la extinción total. Como otras veces, la ciudad que guarda el arcano el tiempo, inicia un viaje al pasado en busca de una época segura. Esta vez, Ballard, el guardián del tiempo, es enviado a reconocer el terreno a finales del siglo XX. En pleno outback australiano conoce a la geóloga Annie Lassiter y juntos se embarcan en una desesperada lucha contra el reloj. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Year My Voice Broke
Director of Photography
Australia, 1962. Un niño ve cómo su amiga de toda la vida, hasta hace poco compañera inseparable de juegos, se está haciendo una mujercita que se enamora de un jugador de rugby.
Vietnam
Director of Photography
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
The Boy Who Had Everything
Director of Photography
In '60's-era Australia, a college freshman must navigate freshman hazing, a distant mother, and a shaky relationship with his girlfriend.
The Winds of Jarrah
Director of Photography
Australia 1946. A young woman escapes from an unhappy affair to become tutor to three children who are being raised by their uncle.
Midnite Spares
Director of Photography
Después de descubrir que un grupo de ladrones de autos puede tener algo que ver con la muerte prematura de su padre, Steve persigue a los criminales e intenta capturarlos, así como demostrar su destreza como piloto de carreras.
Stir
Director of Photography
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
The Last Tasmanian
Director of Photography
The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.
Nacido para ganar
Director of Photography
Es la historia de un joven en Australia que ama el deporte de las carreras de caballos del arnés, que comparte con su abuelo. El abuelo tiene una granja, pero está perdiendo dinero en él cuando encuentra un caballo joven que podría ser un gran ganador. Ellos entrenan al caballo juntos y aprender algunas lecciones en el camino.
Storm Boy
Director of Photography
Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
The Picture Show Man
Director of Photography
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
The Fourth Wish
Director of Photography
The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Sunday Too Far Away
Director of Photography
A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
Sons of Namatjira
Director of Photography
One of Curtis Levy’s finest documentaries, Sons of Namatjira, follows Keith and his wife, Isabel, and other relatives, in their interactions with the wider world including art galleries in town and bus-loads of middle-aged tourists from the big cities. The film highlights communication difficulties between black and white, and in Levy’s terms, becomes “a parable of black-white relations in Australia”.
I Own the Racecourse
Cinematography
A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic Australian novel of the same name by Patricia Wrightson.