SUE GIBSON BIOGRAPHY
After graduating from the National Film School in 1981, Sue became a Director of Photography and began her career in TV commercials. During the 1980s she worked in LA, New York, Paris, London, South Africa and Russia, receiving recognition for her work from the British Television Advertising Awards, the Designers & Art Directors Association and the Cannes Festival.
Her first Feature Film was “Hear My Song” directed by Peter Chelsom in 1989 followed by “Secret Friends” in 1990, the last film directed by Dennis Potter, which won her an Evening Standard Film award in 1992. Since then she has photographed several more features including Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Hardy in“Mrs Dalloway”; Mariel Hemingway and Colin Firth in “Londinium”, Alan Rickman and Juliette Stevenson in“The Search for John Gissing”, Pauline Collins in “Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War”, and also worked on “Resident Evil” and “Alien versus Predator”.
Her TV credits include “Amongst Women” which won the Irish Film and TV Academy award for best Craft contribution, “The Forsyte Saga”, several Agatha Christie dramas including Poirot and Miss Marple, and set the style for the successful BBC series “Spooks” for Kudos Films. She continues to work both in TV Drama and Feature Films.
In 1992 The British Society of Cinematographers made her its first woman member since its foundation in 1949, and she is now President of the Society.
Sue Gibson – Director of Photography
Director: John Strickland. Producer: Matthew Read.
Starring Geraldine McEwan, Zoe Wanamaker and Alexander Armstrong.
LWT
ALIEN Vs. PREDATOR
2nd unit. Director: Bharat Nalluri (1st unit Director: Paul Anderson).
Producers: John Davis, Walter Hill and Joel Silver.
Starring Raoul Bova, Colin Salmon and Lance Henrikson.
20th Century Fox.
SPOOKS - Series I, II & III
Directors: Bharat Nalluri, Andy Wilson, Sam Miller, Justin Chadwick and Bill Anderson. Producers: Jane Featherstone, Simon Crawford Collins and Andrew Woodhead. Starring Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes. Kudos Productions.
Broadcast Award for Best Television Series.
RTS Award for Best Drama Series
RESIDENT EVIL
2nd unit. Director: Bharat Nalluri.
Producers: Jeremy Bolt, Paul Anderson (also 1st unit Director),
Samuel Hadida and Bernd Eichinger.
Starring Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez,
Eric Mabius and James Purefoy.
Impact Pictures / Constantin Film.
MRS CALDICOT'S CABBAGE WAR
Director: Ian Sharpe. Producer: Andy Birmingham.
Starring Pauline Collins, Peter Capaldi and John Alderton.
Cabbage Films.
THE SEARCH FOR JOHN GISSING
Director: Mike Binder. Producer: Jack Binder.
Starring Mike Binder, Alan Rickman, Janeane Garofalow,
Frank Harper and James Lance.
Dyno-B Productions.
LONDINIUM
Director: Mike Binder. Producer: Jack Binder.
Starring Mariel Hemmingway, Colin Firth,
Irene Jacob, Mike Binder and Stephen Fry.
Sunlite Pictures.
TUBE TALES
Directors: Bob Hoskins, Jude Law and Amy Jenkins.
Producers: Richard Jobson and Tony Thompson.
Horsepower Films for Sky.
PURE WICKEDNESS
Director: Harry Hook. Producer: Joy Spink.
Starring Kevin Whately, Orla Brady
and David Morrisey.
Four Parter for BBC 1.
AMONGST WOMEN
Director: Tom Cairns. Producer: Colin Tucker.
Executive Producers: Robert Cooper (BBC N.I.)
and Alan Maloney (Parallel Films).
Starring Tony Doyle and Ger Ryan.
Curlew Film Productions.
IRISH FILM & TELEVISION ACADEMY TELEVISION CRAFT AWARD.
BRIGHT HAIR
Director: Chris Menaul. Producer: Eileen Quinn.
Starring Amelia Fox,
James Purefoy and John Bowe.
Monogram Productions.
MRS DALLOWAY
Director: Marlene Gorris.
Producers: Steven Bayley & Lisa Katselas Pare.
Executive Producer: Bill Shepherd.
Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Rupert Graves,
Natascha McElhone and Michael Kitchen.
Elpich Ltd.
SECRET FRIENDS
Director: Dennis Potter. Producer: Rosemarie Whitman.
Starring Alan Bates and Gina Bellman.
Whistling Gypsy Productions.
Evening Standard British Film Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement.
HEAR MY SONG
Director: Peter Chelsom. Producer: Alison Owen.
Starring Ned Beatty, William Hootkins, Shirley Ann Field and Adrian Dunbar. Limelight Films.
Evening Standard British Film Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement.
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
Director: Patrick Garland.
Producer: Bill Shepherd.
Starring Eileen Atkins.
ELIZA
A pilot for Michael Palin and Channel Four.
THE NEW LOOK
An eleven minute drama for Channel Four.
Director: Chris Fallon. Producer: Jason Burrows.
SUE GIBSON graduated from the Newport College of Art with a BA Hons Fine Art Degree in Photography and is a Graduate of the National Film School. Whilst there she photographed three drama films: "SLEEPWALKING", "COASTERS" and 'JOHN LOVE" - nominated for Best Short Film BAFTA. Women in Film, London Chapter - first recipient of Technical Achievement Award. First lady member of the BSC.