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Sydney, Australia. Thursday 26th April 2012. The Australian Cinematographers Society National President, Ron Johanson ACS announced in Sydney today that renowned cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki ASC AMC is the recipient of the 2012 ACS International Award for Cinematography for his work on the Terrence Malick film, “The Tree of Life”. This is the second time Lubezki [...]
Continue Reading →NZCS Chairperson Simon Riera has offered up this interesting link to a page in development offering a “Virtual Lighting Studio”. It is certainly worth a visit if even for discussion starter on how this technology can be applied to our own work in the future.
Continue Reading →NZCS Committee member Marc Swadel reports back from his latest shoot – “Don’t Think” a concert feature for The Chemical Brothers in Japan from UK production company RSA (Ridley Scott & Associates) Films/Black Dog.
Continue Reading →NZCS Committee member Dale McCready works hard at keeping the online presence of NZCS current and relevant to our wider membership. He would never post this himself – but I will. Some of you may know that Dale is now based in the UK shooting the highly successful BBC show “Merlin”. Here is a link [...]
Continue Reading →I had the pleasure recently of checking out the Aaton Penelope 35mm/digital camera in London. The same week I got an invite to head out to the famous Pinewood Studios in North West London to talk to Alan Piper at Red Europe and get my eager mitts on the new Red Epic 5K camera.
Continue Reading →Way back in November last year NZCS members were hosted by PRP VFX for an enlightening evening’s discussion on all matters pertaining to getting better results for the VFX team and ultimately your production. George Ritchie who led us through the evening had kindly prepped some notes for those who could not attend off the back of some questions I sent him.
Continue Reading →NZCS member Andrew Commis ACS and associate member Grant Adams (Camera Operator) have just started production in Melbourne on the ABC Series “The Slap” Andrew is shooting on Alexa camera’s with Jessica Hobbs directing the first episode. For behind the scenes footage got to this link for Hopscotch films The Slap
Continue Reading →To explain some of the features that make the Phantom Flex versatile, AbleCine put together a short video featuring their Phantom specialists.
Continue Reading →The phone call to set up a meeting came completely out of the blue for cinematographer & NZCS member Andrew Commis ACS. The director was Rachel Ward, the project was Beautiful Kate, and the award that Commis picked up as a result, was the prestigious Milli 2010 Australian Cinematographer of the Year award.
Continue Reading →“It was like entering an Italian Cinema Heaven. Cinecitta Studios was where the 2 day general assembly for IMAGO took place and was hosted by the Association of Italian Cinematographers (AIC). These studios were the base for Fellini’s films plus many American productions from the early 60′s right up to Scorsese’s “The Gangs of New York”…”
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