Nationality New Zealand Occupation Cinematographer | Name Leon Narbey Role Cinematographer | |
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Born 2 August 1947 (age 76) ( 1947-08-02 ) Helensville, New Zealand Movies Whale Rider, The Dead Lands, The Orator, Dean Spanley, Desperate Remedies Similar People Glenn Standring, Toa Fraser, Matthew Metcalfe, Merata Mita, Tusi Tamasese | ||
Leon Gordon Alexander Narbey (born 2 August 1947) is a New Zealand cinematographer.
Born in Helensville, Narbey was educated at the Elam School of Fine Arts, specialising in sculpture. He lectured at the University of Canterbury in 1972, before joining the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation as a news cameraman. In the mid-1970s, he shot the Geoff Steven documentary Te Matakite o Aotearoa, about the 1975 Māori land march. He continued his partnership with Steven on two documentaries shot in China in 1979: Gung Ho (about Rewi Alley) and The Humble Force.
He co-wrote and directed two films, Illustrious Energy and The Footstep Man, in 1987 and 1992 respectively. In 1990, he shot the comedy-drama Ruby and Rata for Gaylene Preston. In 1993, he was director of photography on the feature film Desperate Remedies, for which he won the Best Cinematography award at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards in 1994.
His recent work includes the 2000 romantic drama The Price of Milk, the 2002 drama Whale Rider, No. 2 (2006), the 2007 vampire film Perfect Creature, 2008's Dean Spanley and Rain of the Children, the 2009 Topp Twins documentary Untouchable Girls, the 2011 Samoan film The Orator, the 2013 drama Giselle, The Dead Lands in 2014 and the 2016 film One Thousand Ropes.