Glenn Hanns ACS
Director of Photography, Sydney
Glenn Hanns ACS is a Sydney-based Director of Photography known for intimate, visually rich storytelling across feature drama, television, and documentary. He's lensed features, television series, documentary, short film, music video and commercial work, with well over 150 projects to his name. Recent credits include the psychological creature feature The Room Below (dir. Kurt Martin, starring Alyssa Sutherland and Jonathan Rhys Meyers). For a full list of credits, visit IMDb.
His AFTRS film Bleeders was nominated for Best Cinematography at Camerimage, Poland in the Student Etudes category, and screened at Festival de Cannes (des Antipodes). An accredited ACS cinematographer and AACTA member, his films have screened internationally — from Camerimage, Cannes and Zurich to Beijing, Schlingel, Cinemagic, San Sebastian and the Adelaide Film Festival — and have collected multiple Gold ACS Awards at State and National level, IF Awards and an AACTA nomination for Best Cinematography. Works have been distributed worldwide on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Foxtel, Binge, SBS, ABC, Lionsgate and Discovery Channel.
"There's no denying the passion I feel for the moving image. The magic generated when all the elements of film-making come together, creating an engaging cohesive story that transports the audience's reality — that is what I live for."
Based in Sydney. Available across Australia and internationally for features, television, documentary, commercials and music video.
Awards, Press & News
- 2026MiMic wins and places at international short film festivals — Facebook
- 2026Uncork'd Entertainment takes North American rights to The Room Below — IF Magazine
- 2026Filmmakers Soar at Creative Wollongong Short Film Festival — Wollongong City Council
- 2025Advanced Lighting Workshop with Glenn Hanns — Screen Illawarra
- 2024The Room Below begins shooting in Sydney — IF Magazine
- 2024Cameras roll on Kurt Martin's psychological creature feature, The Room Below — Cinema Australia
- 2024From Childhood Homemade Films to National Cinematography Honour — Illawarra Mercury
- 2023Gold ACS Award NSW & ACT — Ron Iddles: The Good Cop — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2022ACS National Award of Distinction — Moon Rock for Monday — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2021Glenn Hanns ACS takes Gold — Best Indie Feature Film, Moon Rock for Monday — Moon Rock For Monday
- 2021AACTA Nominee — Best Cinematography, Moon Rock for Monday — AACTA
- 2021Gold ACS Award NSW & ACT — Moon Rock for Monday — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2020SCHLiNGEL SLM Top Award — Best International Feature Film, Moon Rock for Monday — International Film Festival for Children SCHLiNGEL
- 2020ASIN Award — Best Feature Film, Moon Rock for Monday — ASIN
- 2019Silver Logie — Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program, Ron Iddles — TV Week Logies
- 2014Film Critics Circle Award — Best Feature Documentary, Persons of Interest — TV Tonight
- 2013Bronze ACS Award NSW & ACT — Forbidden Ground — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2013Walkley Award — Outstanding Journalism, Persons of Interest — SBS
- 2011Bronze ACS Award NSW & ACT — Dramatised Documentaries, Love Gone Wrong — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2010Silver ACS Award NSW & ACT — Dramatised Documentaries, Dangerous Liaisons — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2009Official Selection — San Sebastian Film Festival, Bleeders — San Sebastian Film Festival
- 2009Gold ACS Award NSW & ACT — Music Clips, Birds of Tokyo 'Wild Eyed Boy' — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2009Silver ACS Award NSW & ACT — Music Clips, Angus and Julia Stone 'Babylon' — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2009Silver ACS Award NSW & ACT — Fiction Drama Shorts, Bleeders — Australian Cinematographers Society
- 2008Golden Tadpole Nomination — Student Etudes, Bleeders — Camerimage, Poland
- 2008Official Selection — Festival de Cannes (des Antipodes), Bleeders — Festival de Cannes