David Brill

David Brill (born 1944) is an Australian cinematographer and journalist.

In 1966 Brill joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Hobart as a cameraman,

He accompanied Mike Willesee on an assignment to Vietnam and Cambodia for Four Corners in the early 1970s. He returned to Saigon for the evacuation of Australian personnel and was one of the last passengers on the last RAAF plane out of South Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon. He returned to Asia as a freelancer in the 1990s, based in Hong Kong.

He did much work for the SBS program Dateline in the period 2006–2016.

In the mid-1960s Brill and Peter Donnelly joined the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS), founding the Tasmanian branch of the society. In 2008, he was inducted into the ACS Hall of Fame.

An interview with Phillip Adams, broadcast on Radio National Late Night Live on 16 June 2003, is available as podcast.

He was the subject of the book The Man Who Saw Too Much: David Brill, Combat Cameraman by John Little; Hachette Australia (2010) ISBN 978-0733627477

He was the subject of a documentary film David Brill's Story On the Frontlines (2021), available to watch via Freeview.