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Despite a global pandemic tearing the film festival circuit apart, Sundance 2021 (and Local 600 Sundance filmmakers) stay relevant \u2013 and entertaining \u2013 with a dynamic slate of new independent content.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

by David Geffner \/ Photos Courtesy of Sundance Institute Unless Otherwise Noted<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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When the film world spun off its axis in March 2020, due to the first global pandemic in more than a century, not only did film and TV sets go dark, but the many film festivals around the world that support Local 600-created content came to a grinding halt. That meant festival planners, even as far out as Sundance 2021, more than nine months away, had to consider alternative plans to keep the independent film community connected.<\/p>\n

The Sundance Institute, the umbrella organization that hosts the center of the independent film world every year in Park City, UT, responded immediately. Led by Executive Director Keri Putnam; Founding Director, Feature Film Program Michelle Satter; and incoming Sundance Film Festival Director Tabitha Jackson; the organization created a $1 million emergency relief fund to support Sundance Institute-curated artists and the wider community of independent artists (deployed in conjunction with Sundance nonprofit partner organizations). As the Institute\u2019s press release, dated just one month after COVID-19 began its deadly journey, stated: \u201cWhen history looks back, this will either be the moment when we invested in artists, making it possible to turn what we\u2019re feeling during these scary and surreal times into powerful and lasting, creative work \u2013\u00a0or it will be the moment we lost a generation of art and artists because we failed to support them when and how they most needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flash-forward nearly a year, and while many Local 600 members have returned to COVID-19-safe sets, live event gatherings haven\u2019t fared as well; to hang onto a new generation of independent filmmakers, Sundance 2021 was reimagined for a virtual audience. This year\u2019s festival, which runs from January 28 to February 3 and is centered around an online platform, was teased late last year in this trailer<\/a>. Of course,\u00a0ICG Magazine<\/em>\u00a0will deeply miss the benefits of being in Park City (not the least of which has been our annual Snowdance\u00a0<\/em>party \u2013 the 2020 event had nearly 200 ICG members, colleagues, vendors, and industry friends gather on Main Street to swap indie production stories and mentor new Local 600 members (as well as those eager to become IATSE craft persons). And while there\u2019s no doubt the number of films (and filmmakers) has been scaled back at Sundance 2021, one read of the listing below confirms the quality has not been compromised.<\/p>\n

Sundance graduates, like Directors of Photography Bobby Bukowski (Land<\/em>), Paula Huidobro (CODA<\/em>), Sam Levy (Mayday<\/em>), and Eduard Grau (Passing<\/em>), are all back in force, with each Guild member presenting work that may well be the most adventurous of their careers. On the other side of the spectrum are new-to-Local 600 members like Ryan Jackson-Healy (only one year removed from AFI\u2019s graduate film program), presenting the micro-budget Premieres-section film Mass<\/em>; and Nanu Segal, whose Premieres-section film Marvelous and the Black Hole<\/em> daringly jumps between anamorphic and spherical lensing to visualize its narrator\u2019s unique story.<\/p>\n

Other Guild filmmakers, including Frank Barrera (Together Together<\/em>), Jake Polonsky (The Sparks Brothers<\/em>), and PJ L\u00f3pez, SPC (Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It<\/em>), who are all having their first Sundance premieres, offer further proof that festival organizers siphoned off the cream of the 2021 independent film crop, despite the virtual screening mandate. Polonsky (who shot his Premieres-section documentary for Edgar Wright \u2013 ICG Magazine June 2017<\/a>) says that while nothing can replace an in-person experience, he’s still “thrilled” to be making his Sundance debut with a film so close to his heart. The Puerto Rico-based L\u00f3pez calls it an “honor” to be selected by Sundance (virtual or otherwise). “I’m a\u00a0second-generation cinematographer, so on a personal \u2013 and collective \u2013 level, I understand<\/span>\u00a0the sacrifice and dedication of those who love Puerto Rican cinema have made. It’s an incredible honor to be here, with\u00a0this\u00a0<\/em>film.”<\/p>\n

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(Note: this article was compiled with information supplied by Local 600 members before the start of the festival. We are not responsible for the omission of films and crewmember names not provided to www.icgmagazine.com by posting date.)<\/p>\n

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U.S. Dramatic Competition<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Emilia Jones as “Ruby” in CODA<\/em>, shot by Paula Huidrobro \/ Photo by Seacia Pavao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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CODA\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Director\/Screenwriter Si\u00e2n Heder returns to Sundance, working once again with Director of Photography Paula Huidobro, who shot Heder\u2019s Sundance entry Tallulah<\/em>. The story centers on Ruby, who is the only hearing person in her deaf family, aka a CODA<\/em> \u2013 child of deaf adults. When the family\u2019s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.\u00a0Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin stars and produces. Local 600 crewmembers in the project included A-Camera Operator\/Steadicam Alec Jarnigan, A-Camera 1st AC Christian Hollyer, A-Camera 2nd AC Chuck Moya, B-Camera Operator Scott Lebeda, B-Camera 1st AC Nolan Ball,\u00a0B-Camera 2nd AC Felix Giuffrida,\u00a0DIT Leonard Mazzone,\u00a0Loader Chris Malenfant, and Unit Still Photographer Seacia Pavao.<\/p>\n

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Director of Photography Paul \u00d6zg\u00fcr shot this unique coming-of-age story,\u00a0John and the Hole<\/em>, in open gate\/ARRI RAW, and a\u00a01.33.1 aspect ratio. \/ Photo Courtesy of Sundance Institute \/\u00a0Paul \u00d6zg\u00fcr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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John and the Hole<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Local 600 Director of Photography Paul \u00d6zg\u00fcr\u00a0(making his debut in the Dramatic Competition category) shot this nontraditional coming-of-age story about 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell), who, while exploring the neighboring woods, discovers an unfinished bunker \u2013 a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, John drugs his affluent parents (Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle) and older sister (Taissa Farmiga) and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants. \u00d6zg\u00fcr says he and director Pascual Sisto, a visual artist making his film debut, \u201cwere on the same page from the moment we started working together, and it was great to develop the cinematic language together during prep. We tried to\u00a0reflect John\u2019s\u00a0view on the\u00a0world through our\u00a0lensing. We shot ARRI LF [large format] in open gate\/ARRI RAW, which would not only give us a more suitable\u00a0depth of field \u2013 either minimum or maximum \u2013 but also a\u00a0square shooting format (1.33.1),\u201d \u00d6zg\u00fcr adds. Production took place in Boston during the fall, which \u201cended up being a huge challenge as the film was supposed to take place during the summer only,\u201d \u00d6zg\u00fcr shares. \u201cWe were not fans of the orange leaves, so the joke on the set was, \u2018Avoid those trees!\u2019\u201d Parts of the bunker were built on stage, \u201cwhich made me a bit nervous regarding matching the lighting from the exteriors,\u201d \u00d6zg\u00fcr says. \u201cBut thanks to my fantastic gaffer, Ben Heald [IATSE Local 481], and his crew, we managed to match the lighting seamlessly between the exteriors and the studio shots. My [Boston-based] focus puller, Felix Giuffrida, and his team did an incredible job! Special thanks to [Local 600] AC\u2019s Chris Malenfant and Cheyenne Capri for handling the huge amounts of data with our long takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Local 600 Director of Photography Sam Levy describes Mayday <\/em>as the \u201cthe most intoxicatingly visual script” he’d ever read. \/\u00a0Courtesy of Sundance Institute\/ Tja\u0161a Kalkan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mayday<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Sundance veteran Sam Levy (Ladybird<\/em>, Frances Ha<\/em>, Wendy<\/em> and Lucy<\/em>) shot this feature debut for writer\/director Karen Cinorre that follows Ana (Grace Van Patten) through a dreamlike and dangerous land. Ana is part of an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coastline. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, Ana comes to realize she\u2019s not the killer they want her to be. Levy describes Mayday<\/em> as \u201cthe most intoxicatingly visual script I\u2019ve ever read. To me it was obvious that Karen had written a masterpiece that I simply had to help bring to fruition,\u201d he shares. Levy calls Cinorre\u2019s singular cinematic creation \u201ca cinematographer\u2019s dream. It\u2019s a combination of action, surrealism, and piercing dialogue,\u201d he continues. \u201cAnd producing while simultaneously photographing Mayday<\/em> has been without question the most exhilarating challenge of my professional life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On the Count of Three<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Director of Photography Marshall Adams, ASC, shot this indie feature (with a full Guild camera team) for Director\/Star Jerrod Carmichael that\u2019s described as: \u201cTwo guns. Two best friends. And a pact to end their lives when the day is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Director of Photography Edu Grau returns to Sundance with\u00a0Passing<\/em>, a story about race and gender in 1920’s New York City. Supported by a large Local 600 camera team, Grau\u00a0shot black and white, 4:3 aspect ratio, using anamorphic LOMO lenses for a painterly quality. \/ Photo by Emily Aragones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Passing<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Five-time Camerimage Nominee Eduard Grau lensed this indie feature for Writer\/Director Rebecca Hall and Producer Forest Whitaker about two African-American women who \u201cpass\u201d as white and choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in New York City, circa 1929. Based on the novella by Nella Larsen, <\/em>the film is an exploration of racial and gender identity, performance, obsession, and repression. Grau shot in black and white, 4:3 aspect ratio, using anamorphic LOMO lenses for a painterly quality. \u201cWe played with a contrasty, grainy look that plays a role in the narrative of the film, as light and shadows are important in a movie that is about racism, class, and being a woman in 1920s upper-class Harlem,\u201d Grau explains. \u201cWe created some very frontal frames so the movie could at times feel two-dimensional, only to find the third dimension for an emotional purpose.\u201d The full complement of Guild camera members included A-Camera\/Steadicam Operator Aaron Brown, A-Camera 1st AC Bayley Sweitzer, A-Camera 2nd AC Rachel Fedorkova, B-Camera Operator Derek Means, B-Camera 1st AC Dj Carroll, B-Camera 2nd AC Cheryn Park, DIT Zack Sainz, Still Photographer Emily Aragones, and Camera Production Assistant Stephanie Bongiovi.<\/p>\n

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Frank Barerra lensed the off-beat love story, Together Together<\/em>, in and around Los Angeles. Barerra used Zeiss Super Speeds and Tiffen Black Pro-Mist for a “warm and inviting” image that would offer a \u00a0“timeless quality.”\u00a0\/ Photo by Tiffany Roohani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Together Together<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Shot by Guild Director of Photography Frank Barrera for Writer\/Director Nikole Beckwith, this quirky love story centers on young loner Anna (Patti Harrison), who is hired as the surrogate for Matt (Ed Helms), a single man in his 40s. The two strangers come to realize their unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries, and the particulars of love. Barrera says he wanted the film to have a \u201csoft, warm and inviting quality,\u201d so he used Zeiss Super Speeds and Tiffen Black Pro-Mist \u201cto give a timeless feeling to this dramatic comedy,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt\u2019s an intimate film that explores two people and their unlikely friendship. Eighty percent of the film is just the two actors talking to each other, so we took great care to have a consistent yet subtle dynamic that would add a layer of visual interest in support of their performances. Although the film\u2019s story takes place in San Francisco, we only shot there for two days. The rest of the film was shot in and around Los Angeles. Barrera\u2019s full complement of Local 600 members included A-Camera 1st\u00a0AC Alex Brunelle, A-Camera 2nd\u00a0ACs Melissa Kirchhoff and Matt Emmanuel, B-Camera Operators Bobby Lam and Raquel Gallego,\u00a0B-Camera 1st\u00a0AC\u2019s Benjamin Steen and Tania Espinosa, DIT Wiley Schott, and Unit Still Photographer Tiffany Roohani.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Documentary Competition<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This documentary about one of Puerto Rico’s most famous exports, Emmy-Grammy-Tony-Oscar-winning performer Rita Moreno, was lensed by Puerto Rico-based Guild Director of Photography PJ L\u00f3pez, SPC, who says he was “deeply honored” to bring a film about the Latina icon to Sundance. \/ Courtesy of PJ L\u00f3pez, SPC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Guild Director of Photography PJ L\u00f3pez, SPC, shot this feature documentary for Director Mariem P\u00e9rez Riera about the legendary entertainer, Rita Moreno, who defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism from others to become one of a select group of artists to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. The Puerto Rican-born and -raised L\u00f3pez says that since he was first contacted to shoot the film, he felt honored for so many reasons. \u201cIt was a great opportunity to tell a story through my eyes,\u201d L\u00f3pez describes, \u201cinspired by the glamorous wide screen of [Moreno\u2019s] Technicolor era. And it\u2019s not just any story, but one about such an important figure of Puerto Rican history \u2013 our own Rita Moreno. Rita\u2019s life and work were those of transcendence, not just Puerto Rican history, but women in our industry and Latin performers. She refused to be pigeonholed into one-dimensional stereotypes.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>L\u00f3pez was supported by Local 600 1st AC Juli Silver.<\/p>\n

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Shawn Peters lensed this nonfiction feature about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. \/ Courtesy of Sundance Institute \/ Mass Distraction Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Recording star Ahmir-Khalib \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson directs this documentary, shot by Guild Director of Photography Shawn Peters, about the Harlem Cultural Festival, which took place the same summer as Woodstock\u2019s historic music festival, drew some 300,000 people celebrating African American music and culture, and promoted Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen, for more than 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America\u2019s history lost \u2013 until now.\u00a0 DAY ONE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bennett Cerf shot this innovative feature \u00a0that “lives somewhere between narrative and documentary.” Cerf lensed the project on RED GEMINI at\u00a0T1.3 using ARRI Master Primes, which Cerf says, “are precise and sharp, with a focus roll-off that is organic, and flares that have a pleasing pastel color palette.” \/ Courtesy of Sundance Institute \/ Natalia Almada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Users<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This U.S.\/Mexico feature, shot by Bennett Cerf for director Natalia Almada, lives in a world between narrative and documentary. Cerf describes it as an \u201cessay film, which presented challenges I have never\u00a0faced before as a DP. The film aims to question whether technological progress is the same as human progress. Put a different way: What is the effect of surrounding ourselves with devices and screens that compete for our attention and subvert our human connection, and what will be the long-term effects on us as a culture or even a species?\u201d Cerf says Almada wanted the film to be \u201ctimeless, so one of our first creative challenges was to figure out how to show the effect of screens on people without showing the screen itself,\u201d he continues. \u201cWe wanted to photograph the effect of using a phone or computer, but we didn\u2019t want to shoot any specific device because the phone or computer you film today will become an anachronism by tomorrow. We decided that we needed to get between the user and the screen. We bought a teleprompter for what we called \u2018screen portraits\u2019 and would have my nephews watch certain movies that were colorful or significant. The teleprompter would allow us to film them looking directly into the screen and the camera while watching the films.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almada also wanted to follow a rigid set of rules that included no panning, no tilting, no moving of the camera. \u201cI\u2019ve made my career moving the camera to help emphasize moments and keep up with characters in my narrative and commercial work, so this was a true challenge,\u201d Cerf adds. \u201cWe wanted a large-format feel as well, and yet, I needed to keep our camera package as small and light as possible because I wasn\u2019t sure I\u2019d have an assistant all the time, and I wanted to be able to utilize my gimbal, whether it be the Ronin 2 or the M\u014dviPro.\u201d Cerf says a RED GEMINI became an option via Simplemente, the film\u2019s sponsor in Mexico. \u201cThe GEMINI is lightweight, high resolution, and less noisy than the RED MONSTRO,\u201d he details. \u201cI shot at a T1.3 to give us the feel of a larger format, using ARRI Master Primes because they are precise and sharp, and the focus roll-off is organic, with flares that have a pleasing pastel color palette. I knew we would be getting close and intimate with many subjects, and the Master Primes treat faces very well. As a union member since 2003, I\u2019m generally used to working on a big crew, and I love that. However, Natalia is accustomed to shooting her films by herself, so staying small helped her feel more\u00a0comfortable as a director. Documentary filmmaking is often more about discovery than design, and creative decisions may happen very last minute. Fewer decision-makers can make for a streamlined decision-making process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shane Kelly shot this visually compelling drama for writer\/director Carlson Young, who also stars. \/ Courtesy of Sundance Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Blazing World<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Guild Director of Photography Shane Kelly shot this drama for writer\/director Carlson Young, who also stars. Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive.\u00a0The cast includes Udo Kier and Dermot Mulroney.<\/p>\n

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Premieres (Narrative and Documentary)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Shot by Sean Bobbitt, BSC, this true-life story stars Sundance alum, LaKeith Stanfield, as an FBI informant who infiltrates the Black Panther Party. \/ Photo by Glen Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Judas and the Black Messiah<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Guild member Sean Bobbitt, BSC, shot this indie drama for Writer\/Director Shaka King about FBI informant William O\u2019Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), who infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther party because of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s fears that the group\u2019s charismatic leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) would emerge as a Black Messiah. O\u2019Neal lives in fear of discovery and cannot escape the deadly trajectory of his betrayal. The large Local 600 camera team included A-Camera 1st AC Greg Williams, A-Camera 2nd AC Rochelle Brown, B-Camera\/Steadicam Operator Marcis Cole, B-Camera 1st AC Deb Peterson, B-Camera 2nd AC Josh Quiros, DIT Mark Wilenkin, Loader Clark Birchmeier, Unit Still Photographer Glen Wilson, and Unit Publicist Sheryl Main.<\/p>\n

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Bobby Bukowski shot the compelling narrative\u00a0Land\u00a0<\/em>for\u00a0Robin Wright, who stars and makes her directorial debut. The crew footprint, including Guild\u00a01st AC Lila Byall and Guild 2nd AC Carrie Lazar, was\u00a0minimal by design, allowing Bukowski\u2019s handheld camera to follow Wright\u2019s character 360-degrees. \/ Photo by Daniel Power \/ Focus Features<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Land\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Longtime Sundance filmmaker Bobby Bukowski shot this feature for Director Robin Wright, which tells the story of one woman\u2019s search (Wright\u2019s) for meaning, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, in a vast and harsh wilderness.\u00a0Shot at 8,000-foot elevation in the Canadian Rockies, Bukowski says they needed to capture all four seasons, occurring over two-and-a-half years, in a short window of time \u2013 early fall leading into winter. \u201cShooting in the mountains means being extremely flexible,\u201d he shares. \u201cIf we got a call snow was coming, we\u2019d shoot a winter scene; if it was rain, we\u2019d shoot spring or fall. I slept in the cabin that was constructed at a lower elevation and assembled up on the mountain. I wanted to get atmospheric shots \u2013 moonlight, sunrise, icicles melting, et cetera<\/em>, without the crew around.\u201d Because Wright\u2019s character is \u201coff the grid,\u201d Bukowski says night light was only shot with candles and firelight. \u201cI did have a small lighting package \u2013 an ARRI M40, a Leeko, and a few LED panels to ameliorate some of the fire lanterns,\u201d he adds. \u201cAnd I used large, eight-by black or white cards outside to capitalize on the available light. But it got so windy at times that we could only shoot inside the cabin with available light through the windows \u2013 anything outside would get picked up and blown down into the valley.\u201d The crew footprint was minimal by design to allow Bukowski\u2019s handheld camera to follow Wright\u2019s character in a 360-degree fashion, inside and outside the cabin. \u201cWhen the natural world, in its most pristine state, is driving the cinematography, it\u2019s very hard not to capture something special and beautiful,\u201d Bukowski describes. \u201cI could literally drop the camera on the ground and capture an amazing frame, so it\u2019s hard to take much personal credit. It was also the first film I graded remotely [with Senior Colorist Joe Gawler at Harbor Picture Company in New York], using a calibrated iPad. I found myself shooting a lot of still frames \u2013 static landscapes where I would need to create dynamic changes in the grading. For example, the highlights of a 30-second frame of a mountain might change from a cool tone to much warmer, and while not obvious, it created a feeling something was changing in the frame. I\u2019d never played so much with contrast and tonality before this project.\u201d Guild members joining Bukowski on the shoot included 1st AC Lila Byall and 2nd AC Carrie Lazar.<\/p>\n

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Nanu Segal shot this unlikely friendship story about a girl and a magician switching between anamorphic and spherical lenses. The former to achieve a heightened naturalism that would mirror the main character’s alienation; the latter to convey the “real world Sammy has created within her imagination,” Segal shares. \/ Photo Courtesy of Sundance Institute\/Nanu Segal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Marvelous and The Black Hole<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Guild DP Nanu Segal shot this coming-of-age comedy that touches on unlikely friendships, grief, and finding hope in the darkest moments. Writer\/Director Kate Tsang weaves a tale about a teenage delinquent who befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight-of-hand magic. Segal, who shot with an ARRI ALEXA Mini using Cooke Xtal Express anamorphic lenses and Panavision Super Speed lenses, was joined by Local 600 1st AC Lauren Peele, SOC; 2nd AC Minmin Tsai; and Local 728 Chief Lighting Technician Armando Ballesteros. Segal says the approach to the shoot was very much character-driven. \u201cWe needed to find a way to differentiate between our heroine Sammy\u2019s actual life and what is going on inside her head, which we see in her dreams and fantasies,\u201d she relates. \u201cThe director, Kate Tsang, and I opted to shoot the \u2018real\u2019 world in anamorphic (Cooke Xtal Express from Panavision), aiming for a heightened, stylized naturalism that would mirror Sammy\u2019s alienation from the world around her. When we enter Sammy\u2019s imagined world, we switched to spherical lenses (Panavision Super Speeds) to give the images a less painterly and \u2018truer\u2019 quality, to reflect that Sammy has created a real and vivid world inside her imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brand-new Local 600 member Ryan Jackson-Healy shot the micro-budget indie\u00a0Mass\u00a0<\/em>in a small-town Idaho church, making, as Jackson-Healy notes, “workhorses out of a trio of ARRI SkyPanels and some ARRI M-40s, along with the available light.” \/ Courtesy of Sundance Institute \/ Ryan Jackson-Healy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mass<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Newly minted Local 600 Director of Photography Ryan Jackson-Healy was one year removed from the Graduate Program at AFI (using most of his fellow students as department keys) when he shot this micro-budget indie in Idaho for actor-turned-writer\/director Fran Kranz. The film, which centers on the parents of a shooting victim who meet the perpetrator face-to-face, takes place almost entirely in a conference room at a small-town church. Jackson-Healy says he lit mostly from the church\u2019s exterior, with few supplemental lights inside, as framing often saw a good deal of the room. \u201cI felt it was important to have the windows open, and we shot in the winter, so it was a bit of a challenge on that end,\u201d he observes. \u201cFran was great to work with and wanted to know everything we had available with movement and lensing, to tell the story in a unique and bold way. We shot on ALEXA MINI with TLS Cooke Panchros and Kowa anamorphics, all from Alternative Rentals in Los Angeles. Our B-camera and lighting and grip all came from Redman in Salt Lake City. I made workhorses out of a trio of ARRI SkyPanels and some ARRI M-40s, along with the available light. Color and DCP was done at HQ post in LA based on a LUT I had put together in preproduction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jake Polonsky, BSC, lensed this feature documentary about Sparks (the first the band has ever allowed) for director Edgar Wright (pictured above with the brothers Mael). ”As Edgar\u00a0wanted the interviews to have the look of Richard Avedon\u2019s famous cover photo from Sparks’ ‘Big Beat’ album, circa 1976, which was shot on large-format black and white,” Polonsky shares, “I was able to source a monochrome RED MONSTRO camera to try and reproduce that large-format look.\u201d \/ Courtesy of Jake Polonsky, BSC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Sparks Brothers<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 ICG Director of Photography Jake Polonsky, BSC, says it was in April 2018 that his longtime friend and colleague, director Edgar Wright, posted a picture of himself with Ron and Russell Mael of the famously influential (and underrated) rock band Sparks. \u201cBeing a huge Sparks fan, I immediately sent Edgar a message asking if he\u2019d really met them,\u201d Polonsky recounts. \u201cHe responded immediately \u2013 not only had he met them, but they\u2019d agreed to make a documentary about themselves with him, and he wanted me to shoot it. I didn\u2019t need to be asked twice. The following month we put together a multi-camera shoot at the Forum in London and filmed the first of several live shows recorded for the documentary.\u201d The project allowed Polonsky to meet a who\u2019s who of musicians, comedians, and writers \u2013 from Duran Duran to Franz Ferdinand to Neil Gaiman to Mike Myers, who all wanted to talk about Sparks. \u201cEdgar said he wanted the interviews to have the look of Richard Avedon\u2019s picture of the band on the cover of their \u201cBig Beat\u201d album from 1976, which was shot on large-format black and white,\u201d Polonsky continues. \u201cSo I went to David Webb at RED in London to discuss whether they might be able to let us take a look at a monochrome RED MONSTRO camera \u2013 to try and reproduce that large-format look. I shot some tests and was very impressed with the image quality and feel of the camera.\u201d Polonsky and Wright created a repeatable two camera workflow \u201cso that all the interviews matched no matter where we filmed them, which ended up comprising a mixture of shoots in L.A., New York, and London,\u201d he adds. \u201cThrough the support of RED and Panavision, we were able to source mono cameras and Primo Artiste lenses for almost<\/em>\u00a0all the shoots. It was so inspiring to hear Ron and Russell\u2019s story and to see them still playing live shows and recording new music well into their 70s!\u201d Polonsky was supported by 1st AC Vincent Carnevale in New York, and 1st AC Jacques Lorch in L.A.<\/p>\n

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Emerging Cinematographer Award (ECA) honoree Geoff George says he and writer\/director Julian Doan were inspired by the “quiet, minimalist” style of European cinema for this short film about a son’s farewell to his deceased father. \/ Courtesy of Geoff George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Raspberry<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0\u2013 This short film, written and directed by Julian Doan and shot by Emerging Cinematographer Award (ECA) recipient Geoff George, follows a family saying their final farewells to their dead father as undertakers remove his body from their home. The film focuses on the struggles of one son in this final moment and is inspired by Doan\u2019s own experience with losing his father to brain cancer. Using an ALEXA Classic in ARRIRAW, with Zeiss Super Speeds, George and Doan were inspired by the quiet, minimalist style of European cinema. Framed in Academy ratio and lit with soft light and pastel hues, the images attempt to portray the uncomfortable (and sometimes comedic) process of losing a loved one. Local 600 1st AC Litong Zhen pulled focus and was assisted by 2nd AC Jiyoung Park. George notes that \u201cwith a largely Asian-American cast and crew, Raspberry <\/em>proudly joins one of the most diverse groups of Sundance filmmakers to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

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