Helen Carter
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20022023

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Helen Carter is an award-winning, cinematographer with 20 years' experience in the film and television industry. She has been recognised by her peers, winning eight awards from the Australian Cinematographers Society as well as numerous awards from the AFTRS, Kodak and the Sydney Film Critics Circle. Helen began her film career as a clapper loader on television series and went on to work on many documentaries, commercials, short dramas and feature length films. She is a graduate from the AFTRS, receiving the highest achievement in her year and in 2024 compelted her PhD. Helen shot her first feature film, Double Happiness Uranium in 2011. Helen teaches Screen, Film and Television in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. 

Research Interests

Publication: the Transition by Emerging Filmmakers From the Short Film to the Longer Format Feature Film or TV Project (2017) in Arts and Humanities as Higher Education. http://www.artsandhumanities.org/journal/the-transition-by-emerging-filmmakers-from-the-short-film-to-the-longer-format-feature-film-or-tv-project/

Discovering Agnes Varda; published by AFC website, Senses of Cinema online journal http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/varda.html

Gillian Armstrong; published by AFC website, Senses of Cinema online journal http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/armstrong.html

Screen and Shipwrecks: Bridging the Divide. Paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage in Manilla. Refereed conference proceedings published by the Museum of Underwater Arcaheology at http://www.uri.edu/mua/

Our World War 1: remembering Mitcham Camp - Trove

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/209459107?selectedversion=NBD57679786

The Climate Reality Project

https://www.24hoursofreality.org/

Australia: Unlikely Activists - Cinematographer

Link to AFTRS films

http://www.aftrs.edu.au/showcase/students-and-films/students/2002/helen-carter

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Recognising cinematography: the industrial, technical and aesthetic role of the cinematographer with reference to films directed by Gillian Armstrong, Flinders University

Award Date: 18 Jun 2024

Master of Arts, Cinematographer of the Year 2002, Australian Film Television & Radio School

Award Date: 20 Mar 2003

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