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The American Society of Cinematographers was founded in Hollywood in 1919 with the purpose of advancing the art and science of cinematography and bringing cinematographers together to exchange ideas, discuss techniques and promote the motion picture as an art form — a mission that continues today.
Industry Publications
American Cinematographer is a magazine[1][2][3] published monthly by the American Society of Cinematographers. It focuses on the art and craft of cinematography, covering domestic and foreign feature productions, television productions, short films, music videos and commercials.
The emphasis is on interviews with cinematographers, but directors and other filmmakers are often featured as well. Articles include technical how-to pieces, discussions of tools and technologies that affect cinematography, and historical features.
Cinematography World celebrates the people and organisations making moving images. Supporting, inspiring and empowering visual storytelling.
- by Cinematography WorldOUR MAN IN LA Cinematographer Spotlight By Iain Blair Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw ASC and director Gia Coppola go way back. Coppola hired her to shoot Palo Alto, the 2013 indie-drama and festival favourite, before they then reteamed on the love-triangle drama Mainstream (2020). Their latest collaboration is The Last Showgirl, a poignant drama about […] The post Autumn Durald Arkapaw ASC on The Last Showgirl appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Cinematography WorldAt this year’s BSC Expo, Motion Impossible is teaming up with big names like Fujifilm (Stand 121), Camera Revolution (Stand 248) and Brownian Motion (244) to showcase its technology – not in isolation, but as part of these partners’ exhibits. By doing this, the company aims to highlight how its camera movement and stabilisation systems […] The post Motion Impossible joins industry heavyweights to showcase game-changing solutions for film, broadcast & VFX appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Cinematography WorldEach year, the Festival de Cannes brings together and explores a diverse array of nationalities, cinematographies, sensibilities, genres, and themes. This spirit of artistic curiosity has also defined the career of Juliette Binoche, who has appeared in around 70 films over 40 years. Her breakthrough role in André Téchiné’s Rendez-vous, which premiered at Cannes in […] The post Festival de Cannes honours Juliette Binoche’s four-decade career appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Cinematography WorldThe European Film Academy is introducing specialised chapters for its members working in key filmmaking disciplines, including casting direction, cinematography, composition, costume design, editing, make-up and hair artistry, production design, and sound design. Academy members in these fields will now be automatically assigned to their respective chapters. This initiative is designed to enrich the Academy’s […] The post European Film Academy launches member chapters for filmmaking arts and crafts appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Kirsty HazlewoodLol Crawley BSC has won the Best Cinematography In A Feature Film Award for his photography of the film The Brutalist A24). In the Television Drama (UK Terrestrial) category, Jody Lee Lipes ASC won for his work on the BBC drama The Listeners, Mr Lipes’ was the winner in 2023 and becomes the first Cinematographer […] The post Lol Crawley BSC wins the 69th BSC Awards for The Brutalist appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Kirsty HazlewoodA brand-new series of hit comedy-drama Boarders arrives on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three on Monday 3rd February, after filming last year at The Bottle Yard Studios and on location in Bristol with support from the city’s Film Office. Created and written by the BAFTA-nominated Daniel Lawrence Taylor, who also co-stars in the series as […] The post Series 2 of BBC Three comedy drama Boarders begins 3rd Feb appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Kirsty HazlewoodPinewood Group has announced a public consultation on the expansion of Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, recently described by the Prime Minister as ‘the spiritual home of the British film industry’. The expansion and investment would incorporate additional film stages and production facilities alongside the development of a data centre. This mixed-use development project provides a […] The post Pinewood Group announces public consultation on new expansion plans appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Kirsty HazlewoodEastbrook Studios, London’s largest film and TV studio campus, has opened its doors and is welcoming an inaugural wave of production to its stages. Created by film and television facilities specialists The MBS Group and Hackman Capital Partners, the brand new 21.5-acre campus is home to 12 soundstages ranging in size from 16,000 square feet […] The post London’s Largest Film and Television Campus opens for production appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Kirsty HazlewoodA Cinematographer’s Life Beyond The Shadows is an upcoming book by DP Roy H Wagner ASC. Named by Kodak as among the “100 Top Cinematographers in the World,” Roy H. Wagner has produced some of the most striking and unique photography on American film and TV screens of the past forty years. Mentored by legendary […] The post Roy H. Wagner ASC releases book appeared first on Cinematography World.
- by Kirsty HazlewoodBFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund is awarding £192,500 to King’s College London to support the development of Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives, a project that will explore how UK moving image archives could creatively explore emerging artificial intelligence technologies (AI) in meeting the challenges and the opportunities presented for the archives and their collections. […] The post BFI awards funding for project with King’s College London on AI innovation appeared first on Cinematography World.
Filmmaker is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Karol Martesko-Fenster, Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis. The magazine is now published by the IFP, which acts in the independent film community.
- by Nicolas RapoldSundance is capable of showing some fairly excruciating and/or formulaic comedy, but one alternative this year was the shaggy DIY delight of Endless Cookie. Tucked away in the World Cinema Documentary Competition, this Canadian animation from half-brothers Seth and Pete Scriver (who are white and indigenous, respectively) daisy-chains stories about their family history, from the far-flung Shamattawa First Nation community in Manitoba (where Pete lives) to 1980s downtown Toronto (where they logged time together). Stories from the past blur with the constant activity of the house and environs where Pete’s children and dogs live as Seth visits to record people’s […]
- by Peter RinaldiIn movies like Million Dollar Baby, August: Osage County, Blow The Man Down, and series like The Americans, Justified, and Sneaky Pete, “esteemed character actress Margo Martindale” loves to play people much different from herself. And she’s been so good at it for so long that she only started to get truly recognized for her work in her 60s. Three Emmys later, she’s able to pick and choose what she wants to do. Her latest, the Amazon series The Sticky, finds her number one on the call sheet and having a blast playing the bombastic maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry. […]
- by Pamela CohnGerman philosopher Ernst Bloch was noted for his introspection and study around what he termed the “utopian imagination.” He put forth the concept of simultaneous non-simultaneity: the possibility that people could live in different temporalities while inhabiting the same place at the same time. Moving image work, by its very nature, can illustrate this idea like no other art form can – even without special effects or CGI. From frame to frame, sequence to sequence, a collection of purpose-built images and sounds floats through their own unique space-time continuum, evoking an awakening, a recognition, creating a genre-defying ode to staying […]
- by Scott MacaulayHailey Gates’s war-training satire Atropia won today the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Brittany Shyne’s Seeds, about Black farmers in Georgia and their relationship to both the land and U.S. agricultural policy, won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary. In the international categories, the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic went to Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s UK/India/Canada production about a Western India urbanite grieving the loss of his father. Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears). Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار), Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s documentary about the feminist teachings of a councilwoman in a small Iranian […]
- by Tomris LafflyA family of four—an unnamed Dad (John Magaro), his children Ella and Charlie (Molly Belle Wright and Wyatt Solis), and their Golden Retriever—hit the road at the start of Omaha, towards Nebraska. We don’t get to know too much about them at first—just that they have an old car that needs a little push, and they’ve been evicted from their home, forced to collect their most treasured possessions quickly, like they are saving memorabilia during a fire. We don’t even know why they are heading there. Cole Webley’s deeply compassionate gut-punch of a movie, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic […]
- by Lilly HuOne night in the summer of 2022, I received a text message from a producer to whom I had sent the script for 1 Girl Infinite, hoping she might help me make the film. Her message read: “I love the script. But I won’t be able to do it because it’s dangerous.” I was not surprised by her comment. In China, filmmakers must pass the bureau censorship to release their work. I was acutely aware of the fact that the details of my film had no chance of approval for a domestic theatrical release in China, despite it being a […]
- by Tyler CoatesEvery Tuesday Tyler Coates publishes his new Filmmaker newsletter, Considerations, devoted to the awards race. To receive it early and in your in-box, subscribe here. It rained in Los Angeles this weekend, and the way the phrase “we needed this” became a meme felt like a collective awkward laugh followed by a sigh of relief. For the past few weeks almost everyone has been on edge, many mourning massive losses from the fires in the Palisades and Altadena. Wind advisories meant our go-backs were still packed, phones facing up in case of Watch Duty notifications. (Oh, and a lot of […]
- by Scott MacaulayAmong the features premiering this year at the Sundance Film Festival, there are none — on paper — simpler than Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day. Arriving just two years after he premiered his Passages at the festival, Sachs reunites with actor Ben Whishaw for a picture that’s one 76-minute dialogue between two friends in a New York apartment in 1974. What’s more, that dialogue is not some dramatically sculptured theatrical two-hander building to third act epiphanies but, rather, a transcription of an actual conversation between art photographer Hujar and artist Linda Rosenkrantz, who was conducting interviews for a book in […]
- by Tomris LafflyFor Jesus Camp and Detropia directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, a film can be born from the most inconspicuous of things, like something they have overheard, or a phrase that stayed with them. Folktales, their stunning documentary set in a folk school in the snow-clad Northern Norway, was no exception. During the early days of Covid, Ewing was catching the end of a podcast when American dog sledder Blair Braverman was talking about her vocation, as well as what happens to your mind when you’re alone for 12 days with a pack of dogs. As a dog and nature […]
- by Filmmaker StaffMad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) is director Joel Alfonso Vargas’s feature adaptation of his short film May it Go Beautifully for You, Rico. The film follows Rico, his family and his girlfriend as they adjust to the latter’s new pregnancy. The film is a 2025 Sundance Film Festival NEXT selection and was shot by Rufai Ajala, who also served as DP on the original short. Below, Ajala discusses translating New York’s summer heat into visuals and the advantages of shooting in New York City. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer […]
- by Filmmaker StaffJoel Alfonso Vargas has adapted his short May It Go Beautifully for You, Rico into the feature-length Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo), part of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT section. The film follows the carefree Rico as he attempts to get his life together when his girlfriend gets pregnant. Editor Irfan Van Tuijl, who edited May It Go Beautifully for You, Rico reprised his roll for Mad Bills to Pay. Below, he explains what it’s like to cut a film that is composed entirely of master shots and what kind of material was left […]
- by Ritesh MehtaThree weeks before the Sundance Midnight Madness premiere of her zombie dramedy Didn’t Die, director Meera Menon (whose credits appositely include episodes of The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead) and her partner Paul Gleason (who co-wrote and shot the film) lost their home in the Eaton fire that devastated Altadena, Los Angeles. Not only that, the film’s producer Erica Fishman and her partner Geoff Boothby, who edited the film, also lost their home in the fire. The irony is that Didn’t Die centers on a group of five in the zombie apocalypse, trying desperately to hang on to their […]
- by Scott MacaulayRashad Frett arrives at Sundance with his debut feature, Ricky, following work as a combat medic, a stint in business school, and directing an independent TV pilot he called “a Connecticut version of The Wire.” Along the way, he heard the stories of peers who cycled in and out of the criminal justice system system. So, when enrolled at NYU Tisch Graduate Film School, he used those stories as inspiration for his thesis short, Ricky. “We had ex-offenders, police officers, parole officers, judges and family members of the incarcerated all involved and consulting on the script,” Frett told Filmmaker when […]
- by Filmmaker StaffIn Meera Menon’s Sundance Midnights selection Didn’t Die, a podcast host in a post-apocalyptic finds herself faced by challenges both familial and professional. Didn’t Die was produced by Menon; her husband, co-writer, VFX supervisor and DP Paul Gleason; Erica Fishman; Luke Patton; and Joe Camerota. Camerota and Patton are both first-time producers, and below, they talk about the beauty of making small art with friends and the value in pressing on until you find solutions. See all responses to our annual Sundance first-time producer interviews here. Filmmaker: How did you connect with this filmmaker and wind up producing the film? Camerota: I met […]
- by Filmmaker StaffMeera Menon’s 2025 Sundance Film Festival Midnights selection follows Vinita, a snarky podcast host in a post-apocalyptic world dealing with a philandering ex, traumatized siblings, and a dwindling audience. The film is a low-budget, black-and-white homage to George Romero updated for contemporary anxieties. Geoff Boothby served as the film’s editor. Below, he talks about cutting in placeholders that allowed for future shoots to be carefully designed and how choices of what equipment to use in the shoot reverberate in the edit. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the […]
- by Filmmaker StaffIn Didn’t Die, the host of a podcast continues broadcasting even after the apocalypse, using irony to mask her fear. The 2025 Sundance Film Festival Midnights selection contrasts her podcast demeanor with her family life and takes inspiration from George Romero and Post-Impressionism. Paul Gleason wore many hats for the production of Didn’t Die. Below, he answers questions in his capacity as DP, elucidating how to navigate budgetary limitations with carefully chosen equipment and connecting the effect budget has on aesthetic to film noir and horror films. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did […]
- by Lauren WissotSara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s Cutting Through Rocks follows Sara Shahverdi, a middle-aged divorcee in a remote and extremely conservative region of the Islamic Republic of Iran. What makes the scenario rather remarkable that Shahverdi is neither pariah nor wallflower in her tiny town. On the contrary, the onetime midwife, who quite literally brought an entire generation of her village into the world, is also a loud motorcycle-riding rebel who ran for a seat at the government table and won. And now, as the first elected councilwoman, a woman who finds herself at the center of an incompetent bureaucracy, one […]
- by Filmmaker StaffBuck County, USA observes both adults and teenagers in the eponymous location, one of Pennsylvania’s pivotal counties for national and state elections. The series, directed and produced by Robert May and Barry Levinson, focuses on the political battles as seen through teens, looking at conflicts from the eyes of students across the political spectrum. Hannah Gabriel, Rubin Daniels Jr., Leslie Simmer and Elise Ahrens all served as editors on the series. Below, they discuss how the project showed them the common ground in viewpoints they would have otherwise dismissed and the challenges of telling a story that weaves together ten separate […]
- by Filmmaker StaffFilms are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, production or post do you think you’ll view as the most significant and why? The most significant day on this film’s journey was our shoot in Joshua Tree. It was 115 degrees at its peak, and Paul, the cinematographer, nearly collapsed from heat stroke with the weight of the camera rig, which was apt for a film about survival. We were really out of money at this point […]
- by Filmmaker StaffBucks County, USA, directed and produced by Robert May (Kids for Cash) and Barry Levinson (Rain Man; Good Morning, Vietnam) follows a pair of teenage girls, best friends with opposing political views, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, one of the swingiest counties in a crucial swing state. The series, part of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s Episodics section, follows the political battles in the county through the perspective of its young protagonists. Below, Bucks County, USA DPs Antonio Rossi and Ben Bloodwell talk about what drew them to such a political project, matching two different cameras in post, and overcoming the […]
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