Carmageddon

Sporting a distinctive visual aesthetic established by Guild Director of Photography Jay Hunter, NBC’s American Auto roars off in high gear for Season 2. by Kevin Martin / Photos by Greg Gayne/NBC   Showrunner /EP/Writer Justin Spitzer developed the initial...

All Things Go

Guild Lighting Designer Tom Sutherland on crafting the look for Nicki Minaj’s 2022 VMA performance. by Pauline Rogers / Photos Courtesy of MTV/Paramount Global   It’s a 10-minute television extravaganza highlighting MTV’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award winner Nicki Minaj,...

Stars of Comedy

Sitcom specialists talk about how much the genre has changed in recent years.  by Pauline Rogers   When Donald A. Morgan, ASC, first started to shoot sitcoms at Metromedia (Good Times and The Jeffersons), they were stage-bound with old Norelco...

ECA 2022 Honorees

With COVID (hopefully) in the rear-view mirror, the only awards event devoted to new cinematographers returns to an in-person gathering.  by Margot Lester / Framegrabs Courtesy of Local 600 members/ECAs   It’s been a minute since ICG’s annual Emerging Cinematographer...

Skin Deep

Andrew Dominik waited 14 years to get Blonde made; his new Netflix feature, shot by Chayse Irvin ASC, CSC, renders Hollywood’s most famous starlet from the inside out.      by Valentina Valentini / Photos by Matt Kennedy, SMPSP / Netflix...

Child’s Play

Director of Photography Matthew Williams leans into his long-time filmmaking partners to visualize the new Apple TV+ series, Amber Brown. by Margot Lester / Photos by James Daniel Nell / Apple TV+   “My mom always told me there’s a...

Primary Colors

Michael J. Pepin and his Guild Camera Team head back to school for ABC’TV’s smash comedy hit, Abbott Elementary  by Margot Lester / Photos Courtesy of Warner Bros Television / ABC   “The mockumentary…is generally seen as subversive, in that...

Getting Better All The Time

Local 600 Publicists Return to an In-Person Awards Show is a Smashing Success. by Pauline Rogers / Photos by Trae Patton & Evans Vestal Ward   Those most gregarious of industry craftspeople, for whom face-to-face interaction is a large component...

Born To Lead

Union leader and Emmy-winner George Spiro Dibie, ASC, leaves behind a legacy of compassion and labor triumphs that forever changed the entertainment industry. by Pauline Rogers / Photos Courtesy of the ASC   It was 1970. Cinematographer Harry Stradling Sr.,...

Pill Happy

Hulu’s new series, Dopesick, reteams Checco Varese, ASC, and Director Patricia Riggen for a searing look inside America’s opioid crisis.  by Margot Carmichael Lester / Photos by Gene Page & Anthony Platt / Hulu   Some projects you do for...

Prince Darkness

ECA Honoree Karina Silva taps into her “inner Gordon Willis” for the dark psychological thriller No Man of God by Margot Carmichael Lester / Photos Courtesy of Karina Silva/RLJE Films   The True Crime genre is having a moment. Viewers’...

Coming (Out) of Age Story

JP Wakayama’s first network series, Love, Victor, is top-in-class with the help of Guild mentor Yasu Tanida and a think-on-the-fly production team.  by Pauline Rogers / Photos Courtesy of Hulu   Season 2 of the Hulu original series Love, Victor...