About me
Damian Fasolo is a lecturer and researcher in the Screen Production programme at Murdoch Univeristy, and a multi-award winning cinematographer and filmmaker. He has worked on numerous music videos, TVCs, documentaries and television productions for clients including BBC UK, BBC Australia, Seven Perth, ABC, FFC, Invasion Films, Market United, Sonshine, Black Russian Productions, Ribosome, the Dirty Secrets, the Fergusons, McDonalds, the Cancer Foundation and Homestart.
His short film work has earned him numerous awards including 4 ACS Awards and 4 WASA nominations; and his 16mm short film ‘The Road Not Taken’ has played in nine festivals worldwide and received an honorary special mention at the Clare Valley film festival and a second place at the Texas International film festival. On the basis of his film, he was invited to Oxford University, where he delivered a paper on the representation of adolescence and adaptations of works of art in contemporary film.
Damian has also collaborated and authored a number of feature stories as a video journalist for BBC News, London where his research into video journalism and its links to cinematic aesthetics has led to the publication of his second paper.
Damian recently completed his PhD in the field of independent low budget film, where he investigated the democratisation of filmmaking and constraint based practices. Based on this research, Damian wrote, directed, produced and shot a feature film, “Broken” on a minuscule $15,000 budget. The film won a coveted Australian Cinematographers Award.
Industry Awards
'Jadai: The Broome Brawler’ Short Film (Cinematographer)
- Silver ACS Award for Best Cinematography
'Broken’ Feature Film (Writer/Director/Producer/Cinematographer)
- Silver ACS Award for Best Cinematography
‘Sol Bunker’ Short Film (Cinematographer)
- Gold ACS Award for Best Cinematography
- Gold ACS Cliff Ellis Award for Member with most potential
- WA Screen Awards, Best Cinematography Nominee
‘The Road Not Taken’ Short Film (Prod/Dir/Cinematographer)
- Screenwest, Short Film Low Budget Feature Marketing Grant
- Clare Valley Film Festival, Special Mention
- Texas International Film Festival, Second Place
- WA Screen Awards, Best Cinematography Nominee
- Australian Film Festival, Top Finalist
‘The Swimmer’ Short Film (Prod/Cinematographer)
- Harmony Film Festival, Best Film
- St Kilda Film Festival, Top Finalist
- WA Screen Awards, Best Cinematography nominee
‘Colors – Seven Years of Bad Luck’ Music Video (Cinematographer)
- Sound Kilda Film Festival, Top Finalist
‘Wraith’ Short Film (Cinematographer)
- WA Screen Awards, Best Cinematography nominee
‘Enashell’ Short Film (Cinematographer)
- Side-On Film Festival, Best Cinematography nominee