biography
Nicola Daley is an award-winning Cinematographer.
In 2008 Nicola won the FujiFilm Flickerfest Award for Best Cinematography for the AFC short film ‘Play’. In 2006 Nicola was awarded the Best Student Cinematography Award at the National Australian Cinematographers’ Society Awards for the short film ‘Debut’. She worked on the 2007 Oscar nominated film ‘The Saviour’.
In 2005 she was awarded the AFTRS High Achievement Award in Cinematography and she shot the 2005 Tropfest winning film 'Australian Summer'. Nicola has won a Gold NSW ACS Award for the short films 'Late Shift', 'Crooked Mick' and 'Debut'. 'Debut' was also invited to be screened at the prestigious 2005 Camerimage Film festival in Poland.
Nicola moved from England to Sydney in 1999. Since then she has worked at rental house ‘Lemac Film and Video’ for three years, where she was involved with the technical side of cameras. She was accepted into the prestigious Australian Film, TV and Radio School to study Cinematography in 2003. Nicola has experience with film, video, and HD and in all areas, from music videos to drama to documentary.
Most recently she has worked with some of Australia’s most talented Documentarians including Curtis Levy, Ruth Cullen, and Jessica Douglas-Henry.
