A DP’s Basic Instinct
Cinematographer Steve Mason on film and family
By Jennifer M. Wood
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/cinematography/article/a_dps_basic_instinct_2618/
Who you know might be the first step to success in Hollywood, but the Australian film community plays by a different set of rules. Even with a successful producer dad—and frequent dinner guests such as Peter Weir and Philip Noyce—Steve Mason had to work his way into the industry. As he wrapped shooting on Luke and Andrew Wilson’s The Wendell Baker Story, Mason took time to rap with MM on his more than two decades behind the camera.