Graeme Beck is a highly awarded, Sydney-based director and cinematographer whose career spans television, documentaries, and commercials. His career started at ABCTV's film department as an assistant cameraman before moving to the Cairns/Townsville market, where he produced numerous television commercials. After several years there, he settled in Perth for over a decade, making television commercials and industrial documentaries. Back in Sydney now, he specializes in producing industrial and time-lapse videos.

Over his career, he has won 14 Australian Cinematography Society (ACS) Awards and two International Cinematography awards.

Beck has significant experience capturing large-scale infrastructure, resources, and corporate operations. His extensive portfolio includes the Mt Keith Nickel Mine, BP Refinery, Harvey Dam Construction, and the 128km Pipeline to Perth. He has filmed a host of other corporate and industrial documentaries for clients including:

Alcoa, American Insurance (Singapore), Ampolex, Austal Ships, Australian Wheat Board, BHP, Boddington Gold Mine, Border Gold, Bronze Wing & Great Central Mines, Chamber of Mines, Coca-Cola Wholesalers, Cockburn Cement, Cognis Australia, Constitutional Centre, Crommelins Chemicals, Department of Education, Department of Main Roads, Eagle X Aircraft, Ernst & Young, Glaxo Singapore, Gogo Station, Goninan Engineering, Holocaust Institute, Indofood Indonesia, Kalgoorlie Gas Pipeline, Kalgoorlie 'Hall of Fame', KCGM Kalgoorlie, Kids Helpline, King Edward Hospital, McKinsey & Company, Mt. Edon Mines, Mt. Elizabeth Hospital (Singapore), Multiplex, Princess Margaret Hospital, TAFE, The Ascot Hotel (Bangkok, Singapore, and London), Transfield, Tulk Engineering, WA Football Commission, Water Corporation of Western Australia, West Australian Ballet, Wesfarmers, WMC, as well as media training for Clayton Utz and WA Government Ministers, and municipal projects for the Perth, Blacktown, Parramatta, Canning, and Northern Beaches City Councils.

His portfolio includes camera work for a diverse array of television programs across Australian and international networks, including ITV and Channel Four in the UK, ESPN and PBS in the USA, and Channel Nine, Channel Ten, ABC, SBS, and Foxtel in Australia. He has filmed segments for 60 Minutes, A Current Affair, The Biggest Loser, The Garden Gurus, The Movie Show, and SBS Imagine.

He has filmed hundreds of commercials for a variety of retail, automotive, and fashion brands. Notable clients include: Auto Masters, Bedshed, Big Man Clothing, Bunnings, Bob Jane T-Marts, Cash Converters, Hyundai, 3M Window Tinting, Ron Bennett Clothing, Ford, Toyota, Jag Clothing, Peter Morrissey, Tyrepower, and Newspower.

Beck has served as the Director of Photography for several short dramatic films. His work on 'Fragments' earned a Best Cinematography award at the New York Film & Video Festival.

• New York Film & Video Festival: Best Cinematography – 'Fragments' (Short Drama)
• "Time-lapse Cinematography Specialist of the Year 2026" – Build Magazine Construction and Engineering Awards


• Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Awards:
• ACS Gold Award: Goldfields House Demolition
• ACS Gold Award: 'Whipchecks' (Industrial)
• ACS Silver Award: 'Bonaire' (TVC)
• ACS Silver Award: 'Princess Margaret Hospital' (Corporate)
• ACS Silver Award: 'The Prospectors' (Dramatised Documentary)
• ACS Award: 'Zip Heaters' (Industrial)
• ACS Award: 'Ironstone' (TVC)
• ACS Award: 'The Westralian' (Corporate)
• ACS Award: 'Harvey Dam' (Industrial)


• TVB Retail Advertising Award: Carmichael Ford – Best of all Regions (National)
• TVB Retail Advertising Award: Mission Beach Resort – Best of Region

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The first feature film (commercially made
film over 1 hour in length) was the 1906
Australian film "The Story of the Kelly Gang."

The largest number of cameras used
in a single scene to date was
48 for the sea battle in Ben Hur.

42 Cameras were used in the Chariot Race
shooting 53,000 feet of film in a single day.

The most film shot on a Feature Film to date was
Howard Hughes' "Hell's Angels" which consumed
2,254,750 feet of film with a continuous running
time of 23 days.

The greatest number of known retakes was 342 for
the blind flower girl scene in Chaplin's "City Lights."
(He was in Love with the young Actress.)

(Chaplin directing the scene)

Marilyn Monroe did 59 takes in "Some Like it Hot"
in which her only line was 'Where's the bourbon.'

The shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho involved 70
set ups over seven days for 45 seconds of edited footage.

The most costly news story ever to date was the
Centenary Air Race in Melbourne which was
transmitted to Britain over 68 hours at a cost
of US $30,000 in 1934. ($534,000 2015)
It was shown in 1500 cinemas within 48 hours.

"Jurassic Park" cost $90 million dollars to make and
$98 million dollars was spent in publicity.

The funeral scene in "Gandhi" contained around 300,000
extras, 94,560 contracted and over 200,000 volunteers.