Andrew de Groot is a graduate of the Swinburne Film and Television School in Melbourne. His first major work was with fellow ex-student, Richard Lowenstein in 1983, on the feature Strikebound.
He has continued to work with Richard on subsequent feature films White City ([a cinema music/drama featurette for Pete Townsend), and Dogs In Space. He was also cinematographer for Scott Murray's 1989 feature, 'Devil In The Flesh', and has collaborated with him on three completed screenplays. His cinematography on Lynn-Maree Milburn's multi-award winning cinema docu/drama featurette Memories And Dreams has been widely acclaimed. For this film Andrew designed and constructed an Animation/FX Rostrum, which was used to re-animate the hand tinted sequences as well as create the film's haunting special optical effects.
His drama credit as cinematographer has been on John Hillcoat's cinema featureTo Have & ToHold', set in New Guinea. Since then he has been collaborating with the director John Hillcoat on a number of scripts in development. Other cinematography credits include the documentaries The Image Makers and The New Settlers and numerous music videos. He also co-produced the documentary Chasing Buddha.
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