SimonBaumfield
- Cinematographer
Simon Baumfield is a multi-award-winning cinematographer, whose work includes adventure tale Shackleton's Captain, Sundance success The Six Dollar Fifty Man, ensemble TV series Insiders Guide to Love, and a host of gigs under the water and in the sky.
Screenography
After the Party
2023 Underwater Cinematographer Series
New Zealand By Train
2022 Cinematographer Series
2021 Additional Camera Operator Film
Daniel
2019 Cinematographer Short film
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
2018 Cinematographer Series
Biography
Cinematographer Simon Baumfield learnt his craft on music videos. He has gone on to shoot two feature films and a variety of TV dramas and commercials, as well as directing segments for arts show The Living Room.
Awards
2015 Show Me Shorts Film Festival (New Zealand)
Best Cinematographer: for Feeder
2012 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Cinematography - Documentary/Factual: for Shackleton's Captain
“My break came the first time someone took me seriously.”
— Simon Baumfield
Related images
The Children of the Migration crew with Tana Umaga. Back row Left to Right is: Chris Hiles (sound), Maurice Newport (research), Tana Umaga (hero), Michelle Turner (producer), David Sa'ena (presenter/research) and Lala Rolls (director). Front Row from left is: Simon Baumfield (camera) and Vela Manusaute (presenter/research).
Photographer: Emily Mowbray. Kindly supplied by Lala Rolls.
Simon Baumfield films Eddie Tongalahi in Children of the Migration.
Photographer: Emily Mowbray. Kindly supplied by Lala Rolls.