Two additional prizes were given out at the International Cinematographers Guild’s Emerging Cinematographer Awards Sunday evening. A group of top directors of photography judged Absaroka and String Theory the best films of the evening. Stefan Tarzan, cinematographer of the western Absaroka, was given an Arri Alexa rental package and Steve Romano, cinematographer of String Theory, received a Panavision camera package. The value of these packages is sufficient to photograph their next projects.
Tarzan and Romano were among the eight honorees whose films were screened before a packed audience at the Director Guild of America Theatre in Los Angeles.
Bruce Davis, former executive director of the Motion Picture Academy, jokingly advised the honorees on how to accept awards. “I have a lot of experience in that area,” he said.
Steven Poster, ASC. president of the ICG, and Jim Matlosz, chairman of the ECA committee, presided over the event.
Earlier, three awards were handed out at a luncheon the ICG held at the offices of the American Society of Cinematographers. Multiple Emmy® winner Robert Primes received the Deluxe Bud Stone Award for cinematography education. The Kodak Award for mentorship went to veteran cinematographer John Bailey, while the Technicolor Billy Fraker Award for cinematography journalism was won by Carolyn Giardina, the Hollywood Reporter’s contributing editor, tech.
A special screening of the ECA films will be held at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York this coming Sunday, October 2.
ECA sponsors this year are Kodak, Tiffen, Arri, Panavision, Sony, Deluxe, LaserPacific, Continental Color Craft, Assimilate, Rosco, Technicolor, 3Ality Digital, Canon, Carl Zeiss, K5600, AbelCine, Band Bro, The Camera House, Clairmont Camera, JL Fisher, KinoFlo, O’Connor (A Vitec Group), Birns & Sawyer, Chimera, Cinematography Electronics, Illumination Dynamics, Preston Cinema Systems, The Rag Place, Sekonic, Matthews Studio Equipment, Creative Handbook, American Society of Cinematographers, Creatasphere, NAB Expo, Plus Cameraimage, Production Hub, Cinegear, Animation World Network, SHOOT Magazine, Mill Valley Film Festival, DV Magazine, The Wrap, Film Independent, LA Short Fest, and Big Bear Lake Intl Film Festival, Baseline.
About the International Cinematographers Guild:
The International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600) represents approximately 6,600 members who work in film and television as Directors of Photography, Camera Operators, Visual Effects Supervisors, Still Photographers, Publicists and all members of camera crews. The first cinematographers union was established in New York in 1926, followed by unions in Los Angeles and Chicago, but it wasn’t until 1996 that Local 600 was born as a national guild. ICG’s ongoing activities include the Emerging Cinematographer Awards and the Publicists Awards Luncheon. The Guild also publishes ICG magazine and the Camera Angles newsletter. www.cameraguild.com.
Full photo caption and credit: Honorees at the Emerging Cinematographer Awards held at the DGA theater on Sunday, with Steven Poster, ASC, president of the International Cinematographers Guild. l. to r. Brian O’Carroll (honorable mention), Alison Kelly, Stefan Tarzan, Michael Nie, Yueni Zander, Steven Poster, Joseph Arena, Steve Romano, David Mahlman, Gregory Wilson. Photo by Craig T. Mathew/Mathew Imaging.
