Jay Topping

An agile storyteller and cinematographer with outstanding post knowledge, Jay is known for his solutions focus and thinking fast on his feet. He creates beautiful imagery via his love affair with the lens and has a passion for developing characters, deriving subtle and authentic performances. Jay graduated from Griffith Film School in Brisbane before being snapped up by Cutting Edge where he worked as an offline editor. He quickly moved into shooting and directing TVC’s locally and overseas. This experience gained from filming live action and VFX TVC’s allowed Topping to become hugely versatile in his shooting and directing style, instinctively knowing the best way to achieve the shot. ‍ ‍ Eventually relocating to Sydney for the superior Ramen noodles, Jay began working at one of Australia’s top creative agencies The Monkeys as their in-house Director/DOP, which gave him the opportunity to work closely with some of the biggest names on the Sydney creative scene. With multiple ACS awards already under his belt, Jay is a versatile director with a wicked sense of humour and a self-assured calmness that can be strangely unnerving (but not in a serial killer kind of way). ‍