Brian Tufano is one of the UK's leading Directors of Photography with
a remarkable career spanning film and television. Tufano's early work
was with the BBC, including Stephen Frears
Three Men in a Boat (1975), and Alan Parker's
The Evacuees (1975). In the 1992, Tufano was introduced to Danny Boyle
by the producer John Chapman and was recruited in order to work with
them on the BBC series Mr. Wroe's Virgins. Boyle continued to work with
Tufano on his debut film,
Shallow Grave (1994), and subsequent features Trainspotting
(1996), Life Less
Ordinary (1997), and Alien Love Triangle (2002).
His other work for television has comprised of such popular series
as Silent Witness, Middlemarch, The Choir and Common as Much. Further
film credits include Quadrophenia
(1979), East is East
(1999), Billy Elliot
(2000), and Last
Orders (2002). In 2001, Brian won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Film and Television.