Get to know the latest projects that DPs and camera operators from around the world have been prepping, shooting and grading.
NB: This feature normally appears in the print edition of British Cinematographer, but due to sensitivities surrounding the present industrial action we have made the decision to move it online. In its place in our September/October print issue you’ll find a special report on the strikes.
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Catharine Brown GBCT Assoc. ACO has finished as B-camera operator on S4 of All Creatures Great & Small with DP Ian Adrian and director Jordan Hogg for Playground.
Amanda McAllister Personal Management
James Moss GBCT is filming with Kate Saxon on Grace S4. Kelvin Richard BSC is grading Grime Kids and is starting shooting Hidden Heroes in the US (dir. George Amponsah/October Films). Sean Van Hales is back in Malta with Dermot Boyd filming The Madame Blanc Mysteries S3.
Berlin Associates
Neil Oseman has recently wrapped season two of the short-form fantasy-adventure series Ren: The Girl with the Mark, working with directors Kate Madison, Christopher Dane, Jonnie Howard and Sophie Black.
GBCT
Christopher TJ McGuire GBCT is working on Bad Boys 4 with DP Robrecht Heyvaert. Paul Mortlock GBCT recently shot the World War II short film Daylight Follows.
Helicopter Film Services
Jeremy Braben Assoc. BSC is currently working on House of the Dragon S2 and How to Train your Dragon.
Iconic
Martin Ahlgren ASC just wrapped production on Old Guy (dir. Simon West). He also shot three episodes of the upcoming Netflix series 3 Body Problem. Pat Aldinger recently wrapped on Bang Bang (dir. Vincent Grashaw). Ayinde Anderson’s work on Cinnamon (dir. Bryan Keith Montgomery Jr.) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Kate Arizmendi shot four episodes of the latest season of Succession and her work on National Anthem (dir. Luke Gilford) premiered at SXSW Film Festival. Christophe Collette CSC served as the second unit DP on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (dir. Steven Caple Jr.). Benoît Delhomme AFC wrapped directing and shooting Mother’s Instinct (dir. Benoît Delhomme). Michał Dymek PSC is gearing up to shoot A Real Pain (dir. Jesse Eisenberg) and The Little Seamstress (dir. Magnus von Horn). Michael Cambio Fernandez lensed The Accidental Getaway Driver (dir. Sing J. Lee), which premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Matt Flannery wrapped shooting on Havoc (dir. Gareth Evans). Guillermo Garza recently wrapped production on The Thicket (dir. Elliott Lester) and is colour grading Desert Warrior (dir. Rupert Wyatt).
Zach Kuperstein wrapped production on Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut The Dating Game and is finishing up his last few days on Don’t Move (dir. Brian Netto & Adam Schindler). Dustin Lane’s recent work on Sometimes I Think About Dying (dir. Rachel Lambert) premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Pedro Luque SCU is colour grading Society of Snow (dir. J.A. Bayona) and directed the splinter unit shooting of Alien: Romulus (dir. Fede Alvarez). Peter Menzies ACS is currently shooting The Yellow Tie (dir. Serge Ioan Celebidachi). Oliver Millar recently wrapped Cold Wallet (dir. Cutter Hodierne). Claudio Miranda ASC ACC is currently colour grading Nyad (dir. Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) and shooting Formula 1 (dir. Joseph Kosinski). Khalid Mohtaseb recently lensed “The Singularity” commercial for Squarespace, which was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Commercial. Andrew Droz Palermo ASC is currently shooting Mother Mary (dir. David Lowery). Evan Prosofsky CSC recently finished colour grading The Legend of Ochi (dir. Isaiah Saxon). Robert Richardson ASC ACK is currently colour grading and doing reshoots on The Equalizer 3 (dir. Antoine Fuqua).
Pat Scola recently wrapped production on A Quiet Place: Day One (dir. Michael Sarnoski). Ben Seresin ASC BSC’s recent work on The Mother (Niki Caro) held the top spot on Netflix’s global Top 10 list for multiple weeks. Karina Silva recently wrapped production on Which Brings Me to You (dir. Peter Hutchings). Jeremy Snell is currently colour grading The Sand Castle (dir. Matty Brown). Laurent Tangy AFC’s recent work on Just the Two of Us (dir. Valérie Donzelli) was an official selection at Cannes Film Festival. Corey Walter just wrapped production on S2 of the HBO series Tokyo Vice. Dariusz Wolski ASC is colour grading Project Artemis (dir. Greg Berlanti), and his work on Napoleon (dir. Ridley Scott) is set to release this November. Rina Yang BSC recently wrapped production on O’Dessa (dir. Geremy Jasper) and Flint Strong (dir. Rachel Morrison).
Independent
Rick Joaquim SASC is currently working on feature film Take Cover.
Intrinsic
Gareth Munden has been lighting the delayed Italian extravaganza The Opera. Malcolm McLean has been operating on See No Evil. James Mather ISC has been shooting Trad in Ireland where Philip Blake has also been shooting Ready or Not. Bebe Dierken finished the Brian Epstein biopic Midas Man in Liverpool.
In TV drama Michal Sobocinski PSC has been in shooting The Serpent Queen. David Liddell has been lighting the “Blue Unit” on Band of Spies in Hungary and Malta. Rasmus Arrildt DFF took an unnamed Danish drama after he finished A Thousand Blows where Gabi Norland has also been operating. Tom Hines started his block of Beyond Paradise after some Midsomer Murders. Andrew Johnson has been back at Casualty. Nic Lawson has been shooting Vigil. Bebe Dierken BVK returned to Germany to shoot the Iraq War drama The Second Attack.
Simon Hawken FNF, Gabi Norland, Martin Roach, and Lynda Hall have all been busy with commercials, trailers, idents and corporate films.
Lisa Richards Creatives
Patrick Jordan ISC has now wrapped on Faithless (Grand Pictures/ Media Musketeers, dir. Declan Recks). Angus Mitchell ISC wraps on McDonald & Dodds S4 (ITV/Mammoth Screen, dir. Samantha Harrie) at the end of August.
Llewellyn Associates
Graham Boonzaaier has started shooting a UK TV eight-part series in Italy for Ricochet, World’s Most Dangerous Roads (dir. Sean McDonnell). Alasdair K Boyce has just finished shooting Shetland S8 as director of photography for Block 2 for ITV Studios (Silverprint Pictures) for BBC1 (dir. Giulia Gandini) in Glasgow and Shetland. Sebastian Cort recently wrapped shooting an untitled music documentary with director Toby L. The documentary is an Up The Game production, produced by Josh Connolly, with production assistance from Katie Cooper. Prior to this Cort shot a comedy, crime, drama, feature film and did the cinematography for Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire (dir. Michael Head). Tom Doran is shooting a three-part Mindhouse drama-documentary, 2nd unit and B-roll camera (series dir. Liza Williams and dir. Tash Gaunt). Keith Gubbins recently shot Lewis Capaldi music video “Wish You The Best” (dir. Jim Wilmot), produced by Amelia Studios. Magda Kowalczyk has started filming a documentary that’s in development (dir. Waad Al-Kateab/Docsville).
Jack Mealing has been operating C-camera on Paramount miniseries Knuckles (cin. Brandon Trost, dir. Jeff Fowler). Tamás Apor Meder shot film The Bull in Belgium with director Victor Nauwynck and has started prep on short Praeis (dir. Dovydas Draksas) in Lithuania. Samira Oberberg has been doing additional photography for feature documentary My Extinction (dir. David Proud and Paul Viragh), produced by Lindsey Dryden, co-produced by Samantha Steele and supported by the BFI Doc Society Fund. It explores the scientific future of disability. Annette Remler has finished shooting an untitled music documentary as 2nd unit DP with director Toby. The documentary is an Up The Game production, produced by Josh Connolly, with production assistance from Katie Cooper.
Candida Richardson is collaborating with artist/director and filmmaker Caitlin Yardley and is shooting the second part of her most recent film, Aalto and Woolf. Richardson recently collaborated with other female DPs to shoot a one-off theatre performance piece The Second Woman (working title) at the Young Vic, and is also continuing to shoot a dance installation piece with William Bracewell, “States of Being in a Small Space”, commissioned by Clare Farrow Studio and filmed at the Royal Opera House. Robert Shacklady has been shooting as 2nd unit DP on Sherwood S2 (dir. Clio Barnard/House Productions).
McKinney Macartney
Ben Butler has been shooting commercials. Denis Crossan BSC is shooting series 2 of The Rig for Amazon. Jean Philippe Gossart AFC is filming series 3 ofWheel of Time for Amazon. Dale Elena McCready BSC NZCS is about to start prepping Day of the Jackal for Sky Studios. Richard Stoddard is shooting The Red King for ITV. Alessandra Scherillo has been shooting commercials. Gavin Finney BSC is about to begin early prep on Wolf Hall series 2 for BBC 2. Mick Coulter is prepping A Scottish Love Scheme (w/t) for Hallmark. Steve Lawes has recently finished working on Partygate for Channel 4. Richard Mott is filming The Gathering for Channel 4. Robin Whenary will soon begin filming Storyland for RTE.
Murtha Skouras
Aaron Morton is currently shooting the upcoming Untitled Thriller directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett for Universal Pictures.
PlanB
Beatriz Sastre has finished shooting the film Pequeños calvarios directed by Hermanos Polo and produced by Japonica Films. Daniela Cajías is preparing the film Los destellos directed by Pilar Palomero. Constanza Sandoval is grading the film El llanto directed by Pedro Martín Calero and produced by Caballo Films. Rita Noriega is grading the film La ermita directed by Carlota Pereda and produced by Bixagu Entertainment, Castelao Productions, and Filmax. Álex de Pablo is shooting the Netflix TV Series Clanes directed by Roger Gual and produced by Vaca Films. Takuro Takeuchi has finished shooting Segundo premio, directed by Isaki Lacuesta & Pol Rodriguez and produced by La Terraza Films, Áralan Films, Ikiru Films & Capricci Films. Josep M Civit is shooting in Dominican Republic for the TV series Hotel Cocaine directed by Guillermo Navarro.
PrinceStone
Junior Agyeman ACO, camera and Steadicam operator has been shooting dailies as camera operator on series Mary and George for Hera Pictures (cin. Alexander Dynan, dir. Oliver Hermanus). He was also filming on Vera and on Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2 with DP Haris Zambarloukos BSC GSC. Simon Baker ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, has just finished shooting the final series of The Crown as A camera and Steadicam operator with directors Christian Schwochow, Alex Gabassi and Stephen Daldry and DPs Adriano Goldman ASC BSC ABC and Sophia Olsson for Left Bank Pictures and Netflix. He is now filming in Paris and the UK for a Hilton commercial with DP Adriano Goldman ASC BSC ABC. Michael Carstensen ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, is currently shooting A camera and Steadicam on season two of House of The Dragon, starring Matt Smith, Graham McTavish and Eve Best among others. Rob Hart ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, is currently filming as A camera and Steadicam operator on Sleepover, a five-part suspense drama produced by Quay Street Productions for Disney+ with director Eva Husson, DP Mattias Troelstrup, and starring Denise Gough and Ambika Mod.
Tony Jackson ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, has just finished filming A camera out in Bucharest and Spain on 20th Television miniseries for Hulu We Were The Lucky Ones with director Thomas Kail and DPs Tim Ives ASC and David Pimm, starring Joey King, Logan Lerman and Robin Weigert. Tony Kay ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, has been shooting dailies as Steadicam operator on the new series of Rebus with DP Simon Archer, as well as camera/Steadicam and Trinity operator on Mary and George series for Hera Pictures. Kay also shot camera dailies on The Radleys with director Euros Lyn starring Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald, and he filmed as Steadicam operator on Speak No Evil with DP Nanu Segal BSC. Nic Milner ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, has just returned from Turkey, where he was shooting The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a war feature for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, with director Guy Ritchie and DP Ed Wild BSC, starring Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson and Eliza Gonzalez. Dan Nightingale ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, is about to finish shooting as the A-camera operator and Steadicam operator on the new series of Sherwood with DP Simon Tindall and directed by Clio Barnard. He is then scheduled to start prepping as B-camera operator on a live-action feature How to Train Your Dragon shooting in Titanic Studios in Belfast, with director Dean Blois and DP Bill Pope ASC.
Peter Robertson Assoc. BSC ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, has just finished filming A camera/Steadicam on M. Son of the Century, a Mussolini biopic, at Cinecittà studios in Rome with director Joe Wright and DP Seamus McGarvey BSC ASC ISC. This is an eight-part series for Sky Studios. Joe Russell ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, is still in Spain filming A camera and Steadicam on Andor S2 with DPs Christophe Nuyens SBC, Mark Patten BSC and Damián Garcia, and directors Ariel Kleiman, Janus Metz and Alonso Ruizpalacios. DP Diego Rodriguez is currently filming a feature film for Astronaut Films about Jamaican women’s soccer team The Reggae Girlz, with director Sharmeen Obaid Shinoy. He is also filming Poised, a feature-length documentary about Steven France, ex-MMA champion, directed by Toby Robson for Two Yanks and a Brit UK. Rodriguez is also involved in project Compass for Empress Films, a three-part documentary directed by Marcus Plowright. Sean Savage Assoc. BSC ACO SOC, camera operator, is filming A camera with the Fire Unit on the second series of House of the Dragon for HBO, starring Matt Smith and Graham McTavish among others. He is working with directors Alan Taylor and Andrej Pakereh and DP Alejandro Martinez.
Fabrizio Sciarra SOC Assoc. BSC GBCT ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, has been shooting the Tim Burton feature Beetlejuice 2 with DP Haris Zambarloukos BSC GSC, starring Michael Keaton, Monica Bellucci and Jenna Ortega. Also recently he has been working on the feature Speak No Evil with James McAvoy and Mackenzie Davis for director James Watkins and DP Tim Maurice-Jones BSC. Peter Wignall ACO, camera and Steadicam operator, has just finished shooting in London and Turkey as A Camera/Steadicam operator on The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guy Ritchie’s new World War II drama feature for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, with DP Ed Wild BSC. He is now about to start prepping for the new Arnold Schwarzenegger feature Breakout, shooting in Budapest with director Scott Waugh and DP Christian ‘Tico’ Herrera CCR.
The Characters
Among other projects Toby Gorman has been shooting the noir thriller Deadly Midwife for streaming service Tubi. Gorman was tasked with bringing a heightened stylisation to bring out the tension between an expectant mother and her new midwife, under the guiding hand of her increasingly suspicious husband.
Vision Artists
Anna MacDonald’s feature documentary Asog premiered at the Marché Du Film at Cannes Film Festival as well as screening at Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The unique docu-drama hybrid was directed by Sean Devlin and executive produced by Adam McKay and Alan Cumming, and follows Rey, a non-binary Filipino school teacher, on a road trip to compete in a drag pageant. Nick Morris has begun prep on Sweetpea with See-Saw Films. Directed by Ella Jones, the series is based on the ‘serial killer with a twist’ book from C.J. Kuse. Benedict Spence BSC is currently grading new Netflix series Eric with Benedict Cumberbatch. The series is produced by Sister Pictures and directed by Ben’s long term collaborator Lucy Forbes. Jaime Feliu-Torres is grading the tests for BFI feature film Free. Directed by David Alexander and produced by Yaw Basoah for Dark Pictures.
Jonas Mortensen shot the TV special of Merman’s There She Goes starring David Tennant and directed by Toby Trackman. In addition, Mortensen has also been shooting an exciting comedy pilot with Catherine Morshead at Fudge Park. Kia Fern Little shot short film Good Vibes Only. The story follows an affable radio DJ who after his friend dies by suicide, broadcasts a show in his memory. The short was produced by Milo Beyts through Primary Colour Pictures and directed by Christopher Rogers. Will Hanke has now wrapped a new comedy pilot for Avalon Television, produced by Avalon for the BBC and directed by Alice Sneddon. Lorena Pagès saw the release of her 2nd unit work on The Greatest Days. The Take That inspired musical was directed by Coky Giedroyc and is now released theatrically worldwide. Stephen Dunn saw the release of short documentary Out There on online platform Nowness. The pieces focuses on the real stories and testimony of youths who were used and trafficked as part of county lines drug gangs.
Courtney Bennett premiered his short music film Dirt in the Diamond at Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The Renee Maria Osubu-directed film was produced by Somesuch and nominated for the Tribeca X Award. Eoin McLoughlin’s short film Two for the Road won best short and best cinematography at Galway Film Festival, directed by Locky McKenna and produced by Screen Ireland. Ryan Eddleston has been shooting 2nd unit on the new series of Doctor Who in Wales. Rhys Warren has been part of a longform documentary for Britpop band Blur, directed by Simon Lane. Arthur Loveday has been shooting sports content for Adidas. Ian Murray has been lighting promos for Raye with Otis Dominique at Kode Films. James Watson has been working with VCCP spots for Tango, with regular collaborator Ben Tonge. Jim Jolliffe has been lighting for Rogue Films and Max Fisher on a piece for the Royal Marines. Jack Wilkinson has been shooting Coop spots with Charlotte Regan. James Blann teamed up with Hauke Hilberg again to shoot for Czar films in Germany. Luke C. Harper has been shooting sports promo for Riff Raff Films. Moritz Moessinger has been lighting gin commercials for Mert Alas with January Productions. Luke Scott reteamed with advertising partners Hogarth to shoot content for Soap and Glory. Martin Hill continues to shoot food and supermarket pieces for Rattling Stick. Spike Morris has been lensing fashion spots for LuluLemon and Hugo Boss and Tim Fok has been lighting a range of food with Greenroom and Agile.
Undercranked Agents
Adam Prosser is now represented by Kirsten Beith at Undercranked Agents and shooting commercial work for More Than Insurance and Govia Thameslink Railway.
