Visionary filmmaker J.J. Abrams will receive the Cinema Audio Society’s Filmmaker of the Year honour at the 60th CAS Awards on Saturday, 2 March 2024 at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. “It is our honour to bestow the 2024 CAS Filmmaker Award to esteemed multi-hyphenate, J.J. Abrams,” said CAS President Peter Kurland. “Recognised … Read more
Space is the place Dan Mindel ASC BSC / Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens Space is the place Dan Mindel ASC BSC / Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens When director JJ Abrams and cinematographer Dan Mindel ASC BSC approached Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, they weren’t just facing an extraordinarily complex … Read more
Hard Light Larry Fong / Super 8 Hard Light Larry Fong / Super 8 At the recent Cine Gear industry confab, held on the backlot at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, a screening of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) was followed by a discussion with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond ASC, who won an Oscar for … Read more
