ABC camera operators Michael Franchi and Tom Hancock have won esteemed Gold Tripod awards at the 2024 ACS National Awards for Cinematography, which were held in Brisbane on Saturday night.
Franchi, a camera operator and photographer with ABC News in Darwin, took home Gold in the National News category for his work on ‘One of a Kind: Outback Amateur Races’.
Foreign Correspondent camera operator Hancock was awarded Gold in Current Affairs for ‘Fighting Back’, in which he and reporter Steve Cannane travelled to northern Ukraine to meet the people freed from Russian occupation. Read his Backstory about the experience here.
Also in the National News category, Jordan Young of ABC Tasmania was acknowledged with a distinction for ‘Harness Racing Investigation’.
Distinctions also went to Mitch Woolnough in the International News category for the report ‘Kinmen Island’ and Cameron Schwarz in Current Affairs for his work on Four Corners’ ‘Fox and the Big Lie‘.
Freelance camera operator Ben Cunningham received a distinction in the Entertainment & TV Magazine category for the Back Roads episode about Marrawah in Tasmania’s north-west.
