Cinematographer Donald Duncan has worked underwater, on snow, in non-fiction and in Narnia. Raised on a Waikato farm, Duncan trained in sound, then moved into camerawork. The early nineties saw him shooting comedy User Friendly, swim drama Alex, gothic fantasy Jack Be Nimble and acclaimed short Lovelock. After helping set the style of Xena: Warrior Princess, Duncan won a NZ cinematography award for road movie Snakeskin. Since then he has worked on a number of US tele-movies shooting down under.
Just leave me with the camera assistant, the camera and the actors and on the way back to lunch we’ll shoot some stuff.
– On executing one of his favourite shots, in Snakeskin