Oscar-winning cinematographer John Seale has been behind the lens on scores of critically acclaimed movies, including Dead Poet's Society, Witness, The English Patient, Rain Man and Mad Max: Fury Road.
What many people don't know is that he underwent "the apprenticeship of his career" in the early 1970s on a series called Castaway, which aired on ABC TV and was largely filmed at Port Macquarie in northern NSW.
