JohnToon
- Cinematographer
John Toon's globetrotting award-winning career as a cinematographer encompasses documentary, shorts, TV drama (The Governor) and feature films — Rain, Mr Pip, Kingpin and Sunshine Cleaning among them. He has also shot and directed many commercials.
Biography
John Toon began his movie career at primary school, with an 8mm remake of D-Day epic The Longest Day, filmed in a Canterbury pond. After working in a Dunedin photographic lab on a school holiday job, Toon joined the NZ Broadcasting Corporation as a trainee editor. He soon segued into newsreel camera work, where his interests lay.
Screenography
Awards
2014 Australian Cinematographers Society Awards
Cinematographer of the Year: for Mr Pip
2005 Australian Cinematographers Society Awards
Award of Distinction - Feature Films: for Sylvia
“He’s really risky and he doesn’t waste time ... there’s not a lot of people that will light the film, plus operate the camera, plus hand-hold the camera on their shoulder all day; it’s quite a tough job.”