JULIA LEIGH had never been behind a camera before but that has not stopped her debut feature, Sleeping Beauty, being selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Nor had the Sydney author made so much as a short film. ”No, nothing at all. No Tropfest,” said Leigh, who has won literary prizes and nominations for her novels, The Hunter and Disquiet.
”I had to prove to a lot of people that I had a definite vision and I did an amazing amount of preparation. I read film scripts, went to an actors’ workshop and observed a friend on a TV set. I watched a lot of films that I loved with the sound turned down. I would ask myself, ‘Where is the camera?”’

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Larry Fong – The Man Behind the Camera of ‘Sucker Punch’
Neonpunch talks with the cinematographer behind our favorite movies.

If you’ve seen Sucker Punch, Watchmen or 300 – then you’ve seen the incredible work of Larry Fong. As a cinematographer his job is to work with director’s like Zack Snyder and bring the vision to life.

We were fortunate enough to get a chance to speak with the man Variety named as one of the Top 10 Cinematographers to watch, to discuss his career, how he met Zack Snyder and his thoughts on cutting the giant squid out of the end of Watchmen.

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