Many are calling HPA 2015 the best ever, with even more growth on the horizon. By Debra Kaufman. All Photos Courtesy of Hollywood Post Alliance. While NAB, CES, and CineGear draw more overall eyeballs each year, it’s the HPA (Hollywood Post Alliance)...
Bottom Row from left to right Ruben Avendano – C-Cam Gretchen Warthen – B-Cam Stephen Coleman – A-Cam Top Row from left to right Joe Solar C-Cam – 1st AC Dan Zimbald – DIT Aaron Tichenor – 2nd AC Peter...
Amazon’s Golden Globe–winning streaming series, Transparent, has changed the face of television When NetFlix’s original streaming series, House of Cards, received 23 Primetime Emmy nominations in its first two seasons (2013/2014), Hollywood experienced a seismic shift in the future of...
HBO’s Game of Thrones demands (and delivers) VFX spectacle beyond other small-screen fare A Song of Ice and Fire is the title of novelist George R. R. Martin’s series of runaway successes in fantasy fiction, one that for many seems...
Local 600 Cinematographer Sonny Miller’s Legacy Washes Over the Industry in Waves of Talent and Respect. By David William McDonald. All photos Courtesy of David William McDonald. Anyone who loves action cinematography – in the water, on concrete, or waist deep in...
Chalk talk with a class full of Local 600 cinema grads. By Pauline Rogers. Today there isn’t anything you can’t learn about the newest in movie-making equipment on the Internet. So why go to film school, when high bandwidth and a...
Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC, peels back the veil on the most provocative book-to-screen adaptation since 9 ½ Weeks Shooting a film like Fifty Shades of Grey comes with challenges that go well beyond camera choice, lighting, location and all the...
More than 50 new films shot by Local 600 members set to debut at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “Me against the world” is a proper theme for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, unspooling January 22...
Stuart Dryburgh, ASC, helps navigate a dark cyber underworld in Michael Mann’s new techno thriller, Blackhat In the byzantine digital world of computer programming, there are “white hats” and “black hats”: the former, security experts trying to prevent the latter,...
Lovers of the art of cinematography will find a kindred soul in Angelina Jolie. That was obvious three years ago when the Oscar-winning actress presented Dean Semler, ACS, ASC, with an ASC Lifetime Achievement Award. Jolie lauded Semler’s impact on...
– Large 10-inch screen folds out for full-resolution HD monitoring with wide viewing angle and high brightness – Features three separate built-in LCD monitors for camera settings and metadata entry – Record RAW or ProRes with built-in dual CFast 2.0...
The filmmaking team behind the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club goes even deeper into the backcountry of indie production with the raw and gorgeous Wild. In 1995, a young woman named Cheryl Strayed set out to hike a large portion of...
