Cinematographer Germain McMicking has won a prestigious prize at the Sundance Film Festival for the new Australian psychological thriller Partisan.
The Australian director of photography, who has recently been shooting the film Holding The Man, won the special award for cinematography in the world cinema dramatic competition. His previous films include Not Quite Hollywood, Dead Europe and a segment in The Turning.
Directed by Ariel Kleiman, Partisan stars French actor Vincent Cassel as a father who has raised his son, played by newcomer Jeremy Chabriel, as an assassin.
The world cinema dramatic competition was won by the US-British-New Zealand film Slow West, co-produced by Emile Sherman, who won the best picture Oscar for The King's Speech in 2011.
A western directed by Scottish filmmaker John Maclean, it stars Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
As the awards were announced at the end of the festival in Park City, Utah, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's comic drama Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won both the US dramatic competition and the audience award.
