David Parker
In 1984 Parker shot his first low budget feature
Mr B Says No, which won a Golden Camera Award at the Chicago Film Festival.
Malcolm was the first feature film realized with director Nadia Tass, winning eight Australian Film Institute awards and the Premier’s Literary Award in NSW as well as the Australian Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. Following the success of
Malcolm, he wrote and filmed
Rikky and Pete with Nadia Tass in 1987 and, in 1989, he shot
The Outsiders for Francis Ford Coppola. He then wrote, produced and shot
The Big Steal with Tass winning local audiences and nine Australian Film Institute nominations, and was awarded for Best Screenplay. In 1991 his first feature
Pure Luck for Universal Studios is produced, followed by
Stark for BBC which won him the Australian Cinematographer’s Society Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography. David Parker shot Nadia Tass’
Mr Reliable in late 1995 for which he also gained a gold ACS award. He has directed two feature films,
Hercules Returns in 1993 and
Diana and Me in 1996. More recently Parker produced
Irresistible (2005), starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill and Emily Blunt;
The Gates of Hell (2007); and
Matching Jack (2009). He directs commercials, among them the AFL campaign with Ray Charles, Shaquille O’Neill, Elton John & Christy Turlington. He currently continues to shoot movies for Nadia Tass as well as producing movies under the Cascade banner.
