Geoffrey Hall

Geoffrey Hall is an Australian cinematographer, known his work on such films Chopper and Red Dog (2011). More recently, he worked on Paramount+ series NCIS: Sydney (2024).

Early life and education Geoffrey Hall grew up in Melbourne, Victoria. He started taking an interest in photography when he was eight, when his father took him to his workplace, a film lab in Malvern.

Hall studied art and design at Prahran College in Melbourne, where he was inspired by his photographic lecturer Athol Shmith as well as filmmaker Paul Cox. He then went on to study film and television at the Swinburne Film and TV School. Other films include Chopper (2000), Red Dog (2011) Australia Day (2017), and Escape from Pretoria (2020).

For the ABC/Netflix spy-thriller series Pine Gap (2018), Hall worked closely with director, Mat King, and production designer Scott Bird, to create the look and feel of the secretive joint Australian-US military facility known as Pine Gap, in the Northern Territory. He had previously worked with Bird on Anzac Girls (2014). Tim Crosby of Rising Sun Pictures provided the backdrop of the facility. Hall also requested Maxx Corkindale as his B-camera operator, as they work well together, and there were challenges of shooting in the location near Alice Springs.

He worked on the Stan Original science fiction series Bloom in 2018,

In 2020, Hall was cinematographer for Halifax: Retribution, a reboot of the crime drama series, Halifax f.p. that 20 years earlier (1994-2001) on Channel Nine. Speaking about the shoot, in which a sniper was positioned somewhere in Melbourne city centre, Hall said "With lots of night and low light scenes I chose to shoot full-frame to make the most of the Cooke T2 S7/i lenses enabling him to capture a true, big cinematic look with Bokeh influence".

He has also been cinematographer for the TV series The Tourist, Human Error, North Shore, and The Messenger, among others.

Recognition and awards Hall became an member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) in 1993, becoming accredited in 1998.

His awards and nominations include:

AFI Awards for Best Cinematography 2002: Nominated, for Dirty Deeds