Tom Spark is an award winning director and cinematographer. A talented painter from a young age, it’s been Tom's love of movies, cameras and the process of making films however, that has combined his technical, physical and creative sensibilities. Tom's approach to direction is characterised by naturalistic performances, emotive perspectives, and a slightly darker cinematic sensiblity. With experience in commercials, branded content, music video, drama, corporate and documentary, depending on the brief, he can comfortably take a designed approach to an idea or one that is more freestyle, working with either big or small crews.
Tom also produces, writes, edits, colour grades and knows his way around capturing sound.
Tom also produces, writes, edits, colour grades and knows his way around capturing sound.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you are good. Its the thing you do that makes you good.
Malcom Gladwell
Isn’t life but a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life
Oscar Wilde
Chance favours only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Its not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
Although a sometimes cruel mistress, I love making films because she is the culmination of so many disciplines; requiring co-operation, collaboration, balance and interaction, always requiring that the whole package take precedence over the sum of her parts, whilst still understanding she needs great parts. Making an engaging film is like magic; preparation is mandatory, the process personal, the strings well hidden, understanding optional, and the result always remaining elusive until you arrive at the climax; allowing space for improvisation, room for the unexpected, whilst commanding enough control over her wicked ways to ensure the audience gets off.
Born, raised and currently based in Sydney, Australia, my strengths lie in being a hands on film-maker, with a strong understanding of the technical and an intuitive sense for the creative and a lover of movies.
I love to read novels and graphic novels. My classic sensibilities are balanced by my desire to keep it fresh, embrace technology and see our world from inspired perspectives. Inspiration drives my quest for great moving pictures, compelling stories and the right execution of ideas; memorable experiences distilled in time; life captured for a screen, stories and imagery bursting out or threatening to suck you in.
-Tom Spark