Ray Argall

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Full Name	Ray Argall
Occupation	Film
Date Of Birth	May 31, 1957(1957-05-31)
Age	67
Birthplace	Box Hill
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Gemini

Ray Argall Biography

Ray Argall is one of the most popular and richest Film who was born on May 31, 1957 in Box Hill, Australia.

Raymond Charles Argall AM (born 31 May 1957) is best known as a cinematographer and director for both film and television. He has also worked as an editor. His multi-award-winning feature film Return Home (1990) is regarded by many critics as an Australian cinema classic. Argall served on the Board of the Australian Directors Guild (ADG) for sixteen years, holding the position of president from 2006 to 2015 and secretary from 2015 to 2017. In 2016, Argall launched a business restoring archival films through his production company Piccolo Films. In 2018 the ADG presented him with its prestigious Cecil Holmes Award.

In 1979 Argall received a Diploma in Editing from Sydney’s Australian Film & Television School (later the Australian Film Television and Radio School), and in 1980 returned to Melbourne to join the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a sound editor. A year later, he left the ABC to form Musical Films with fellow film school graduate, producer John Cruthers. Encompassing a group of young Melbourne filmmakers, including Elisa Argenzio, Cristina Pozzan, and Daniel Scharf, Musical Films concentrated on the Australian music video scene which in this era became a fertile ground for visual experimentation as well as a way for young filmmakers to earn a living.

Ray Argall Net Worth

Ray Argall is one of the richest Film from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ray Argall 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ray Argall was born on 31 May 1957, at Box Hill District Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. His parents were both musicians: violinist Barbara Argall and clarinetist John Argall who was with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. His sister Janet Argall has had a long career as a television director with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. As a teenager Argall attended the state- run alternative high school Brinsley Road Community School in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. There he became involved in photography and super-8 filmmaking and in 1975 received support for his first 16mm short film entitled Morning Rite from the Australian Film Institute’s Experimental Film and Television Fund. He continued making short films, including Coma (1975) and Parnassus (1977), while working as a boom swinger and assistant on other film productions and TV commercials. At this time, he also became a member of the Melbourne Filmmakers Cooperative.

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On its release in 1990, Return Home was met with widespread critical acclaim, receiving that year’s Best Director award from the Australian Film Institute and the awards for Best Director and Best Film from the Film Critics Circle of Australia. It screened at Berlin, Edinburgh, Seattle and other international Festivals. Return Home which was dubbed a “gem” of the Australian cinema was remastered in 2002 for the National Film & Sound Archive’s Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection of Australian classics. It was the first feature photographed by 25 year-old cinematographer Mandy Walker ACS ASC who had been assisting and operating for Argall and working as Director of Photography on his shorter directing projects. Exceptionally, this film had four other women heads of department along with Walker: production designer, costume designer, sound and producer.

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During Argall’s nine-year presidency and two-years as secretary of the Australian Directors Guild, he was deeply involved in its registration as an Australian trade union under the Fair Work (registered Organisations) Act 2009, a goal finally achieved in 2015 after several years of effort. In line with the ADG’s understanding of the increasing impact on Australian screen of globalisation, Argall officially represented Australia in the founding of the International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity in Seville in 2007 and became the Asia Pacific member of the Federation Board. During Argall’s presidency the ADG maintained relationships with overseas directors’ organisations, notably through the International Association of English Speaking Directors Organisations (IAESDO). These organisations included, among others, the Directors Guild of America , the Directors Guild of Canada , and the Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand. Discussions about collaborations and events were also held with European guilds and the Federation of European Film Directors(FERA but the ADG came to believe that it did not have the resources to realise these ambitions.