Industry & Labor

Ellen Kuras will become the first woman recipient of the American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award, which she will accept at the ASC’s 36th annual awards, March 20 at the ASC Clubhouse in Hollywood.

When cinematographer Janusz Kaminski was approached for West Side Story, he was “extremely excited and enthusiastic,” given the fact that his longtime collaborator Steven Spielberg had always wanted to make a musical, and was finally going to be able to bring his “dream project” to fruition.

IndieWire reached out to the cinematographers behind the scripted narrative features premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival to find out which cameras, lenses, and formats they used, and why they chose them to create the looks and meet the production demands of their films. Here are their responses.

The entertainment industry’s top guilds and studios have again extended their COVID-19 return-to-work agreement, the Directors Guild recently told members amid a nationwide omicron surge.

Television, obviously, is a medium of pictures. Yet for many, many years, owing to technical, practical and economic reasons, the pictures were not much to look at: flatly lighted, stolidly framed, fashioned to convey dialogue, broad action and necessary information but rarely to communicate mood or tell their own sort of story.

In the mid-1990s, soon after making his Spanish-language debut “Cronos,” director Guillermo del Toro tried his monster-friendly hand at an American studio film for the first time. But working with Miramax on “Mimic,” a sci-fi horror movie about a plague of cockroaches in Manhattan, left behind a bitter first taste of Hollywood for the burgeoning Mexican auteur.

The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has announced its final list of award nominations for the 59th Annual ICG Publicists Awards, honoring individual publicists, unit still photographers and entertainment journalists that bring motion picture and television publicity campaigns to life.

In January 2021, following the inauguration of President Biden and the release of his COVID-19 vaccination plan, the union facilitated a letter to President Biden and the White Houses’ COVID task force offering the IA’s infrastructure and labor to build field vaccination sites.

Nominations are now open for the 2022 Young Workers Committee Conference! After this unprecedented year for our union, we anticipate more interest than ever for Local Unions to nominate Young Workers to attend our 2022 Young Workers Committee Conference (YWCC)

IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose films are in awards contention and are among the most critically acclaimed films of the year to find out which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why these were the right tools to create the visual language of their respective films.

Lana Wachowski is embracing quantum magic moments now. In the past, "The Matrix Resurrections" director wanted to control the image and the light as much as possible.