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A handful of Sundance alumni, including Local 600 Director of Photography Tim Orr, gather to contemporize a classic figure of American letters. by Valentina Valentini / Photos by Michael Parmalee   Four out of the five directors and the cinematographer for...

Guild cinematographer Yorick Le Saux captures the “big dreams/big world” of Greta Gerwig’s new version of Little Women – a radical take on the classic novel. By Elle Schneider  / Photos by Wilson Webb, SMPSP   Fresh off the Oscar-nominated coming-of-age phenomenon Lady Bird,...

Check out the biggest, baddest (and safest) reality competition show to ever hit the small screen. by David Geffner / Photos by Daniel McFadden / Courtesy of Netflix   How best to describe Hyperdrive to a reality TV fan? Imagining an unlikely (but spectacular) amalgam...

Lawrence Sher, ASC, re-teams with The Hangover’s Todd Phillips to spin a new kind of origin tale. By Kevin Martin / Photos by Niko Tavernise   While Batman’s origins are better known to some fans than their own genealogies, the beginnings...

FX’s hit series sashays into Season 2 with more than just creative momentum – it’s become a life-changing experience for the many Local 600 members behind the lens. by Margot Carmichael Lester   You could look at the FX hit Pose,...

Jon Favreau and VFX Supervisor Rob Legato, ASC, revisit (a virtual) Africa for another Disney classic, The Lion King, shot by Caleb Deschanel, ASC. by Kevin H. Martin   Walt Disney Feature Animation’s The Lion King was among the early...

Meet the Union Workers Who Are Creating a Culture of Safer Sets Every Single Day. by Pauline Rogers   Experts agree on this point: when it comes to safety, the film and TV industry has been complacent for too long....

Guild DP Jim Frohna and director Andrea Arnold probe “what lies beneath,” for Season 2 of HBO’s runaway hit, Big Little Lies. by Matt Hurwitz   Jim Frohna emerges from the bedroom of Celeste Wright (Nicole Kidman), having just captured...

CBS TV’s new drama, The Red Line, shot by Kira Kelly, visualizes the impact of a police shooting on three different American families. by Pauline Rogers   Bringing their play, A Twist of Water, to an episodic series was an...

CBS TV’s reboot of the classic 1980s crime series Magnum P.I. provides plenty of thrills, chills (in the water) and near-spills for its Hawaii-based Guild camera team. Photos by Karen Neal Fans of 80’s TV will recall, with some wistfulness, the...

Ben Davis, BSC, helps debut a pre-Avengers super-heroine as Captain Marvel takes flight Early press for Captain Marvel included a remark from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige indicating that the film’s titular character (played by Brie Larson) is the most powerful hero in...