Ross W. Clarkson

Ross W. Clarkson is an Australian cinematographer and film director. He has also been credited as Ross Clarkson, Ross William Clarkson, Law Sez or Law Shut. Film director Isaac Florentine endorsed him as "an amazing DP (director of photography) and camera operator" who had enabled him to "come up with long takes" of fight scenes.

Career Clarkson started as a cinematographer for feature films in Hong Kong. Ringo Lam hired him originally for underwater photography and employed him then for following movies. Later, he worked on US-American action films in Bulgaria, but he frequently returned to Asia. 2019 saw him on the other side of the camera, playing an Australian doctor in Thai feature film The Cave. In the same year, he directed Captured, a film about domestic violence based on his own script. For her role in the film, female lead Sara Malakul Lane was elected "Artist of the Year" at the International Film Festival of Ahmednagar in India. The film harvested additional awards at independent film festivals. In 2023, he co-wrote and directed the Kickstarter-financed German-American martial arts film The Last Kumite.

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