25th Emerging Cinematographer Awards Honorees Announced

17 July 2023

The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has named eight honorees for its 25th Annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA).

Celebrating the talent of promising cinematographers, while providing crucial exposure needed to become successful filmmakers, the ECAs are the only awards event in the industry to celebrate and nurture the careers of emerging directors of photography.

The collection of eight selected short films will be showcased at the ECA event on Sunday, October 1, 2023, at the Wolf Theater in the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center, with a reception to follow.

The eight winning filmmakers, selected from 106 nationwide submissions, are:

Petros Antoniadis, Camera Operator (Flickering Souls Set Alight)
Connor Van Bodell, Film Loader (Nisei)
Drew Dawson, Camera Operator (For Those Who Don’t Know How)
Edward Guinn, Camera Operator (TORN)
Brook Lee Karner, Digital Utility (The Coop)
Grant MacAllister, Camera Operator (Blood Positive)
Sarah Anne Pierpont, Camera Operator (Juliet)
Yusuke Sato, 1st Assistant (White Now Please)

Read the full press release.

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