Dan Macarthur is an Australian film director and director of photography and founder of 18° Entertainment.

Career

In 2014 Macarthur shot ''Yennai Arindhaal'' starring Ajith Kumar Directed by Gautham Menon which was released in over 1000 cinemas worldwide and was received very highly by audiences and critics with Macarthur's cinematography praised for bringing a Hollywood look to Tamil cinema. In 2013 Macarthur wrote and directed gangster comedy feature film '' Nice Package'', about a wannabe professional thief, his gay best friend, a sexy hostage and a package everybody wants. The film stars '' The Tribe'' heart throb

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, funny man Leon Cain and Australian actress Isabella Tannock. ''Nice Package'' was produced by Macarthur and

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, co-founder of 18° Entertainment. As a Director of Photography, Macarthur has received highly acclaimed awards for his work on a number of feature films, most notably 2013 action thriller film ''Absolute Deception'' starring Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr., directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith who described Macarthur as being "up there with the best DOP's I have ever worked with." In 2011, Macarthur shot Bollywood hit '' Go Goa Gone'' starring

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, India's first zombie comedy. Macarthur was also DOP on 2013 psychological thriller ''The Suicide Theory'' starring Steve Mousakis ''

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''; Australian gangster action film ''Blood Money'' starring

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and KungFu legend

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and 2009 thriller ''

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''. During the years 2003 and 2005, Macarthur was also Director of Photography for

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's band

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, shooting three of their music videos and an international tour documentary. Macarthur also shot an Oprah Winfry segment at Russell's Farm. Macarthur's early career also included a string of successes shooting music videos for big name Australian Bands like

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, Killing Heidi, John Butler Trio and many more. In 2014, he started working on a Tamil movie ''

Yennai Arindhaal ''Yennai Arindhaal'' () is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film co-written and directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon, and produced by A. M. Rathnam. The film stars Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Anushka Shetty and Arun Vijay and revol ...

'' starring

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which was directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon. It released on 5 February 2015, to generally positive reviews. Dan's work received high acclaim, for bringing a noir-like look to the story, in sync with the tone of the film. He also shot Gautham Menon's ''

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''. Gautham Vasudev Menon mentioned in one of his interviews that he is willing to work with him for more than 10 films in a row.

Awards

In 2015, Macarthur was awarded a Bronze Award for Cinematography for ''Go Goa gone'' at the Australian Cinematography Awards (Qld). In 2012, Macarthur won Gold for Best Cinematography in a Feature Film at the Australian Cinematography Society's Awards (QLD). In 2000 Macarthur shot the award-winning short film ''Stop'', which was accepted into the

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, the only Australian short to be accepted that year. Macarthur's music clips also received many awards for Best Cinematography including the National ACS Golden Tripod Award for the Best Cinematography for a Music Video for

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macarthur, Dan Australian film directors Australian cinematographers Living people 1970 births