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 – for the short 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
Submissions for the Emerging Cinematographer Awards are open to Local 600 members who are not yet classified as directors of photography in the union. Projects submitted are short films, under 30 minutes in length. The nominated films are selected by a panel of established ICG members from across the country.
Many ECA honorees from years past moved up the ranks to directors of photography, crediting the ICG’s ECA event as the boost they needed to advance their careers.
Panavision Family of Companies holds the top sponsorship position as the Premier level sponsor. Other sponsors include: Silver: Creamsource, Universal Production Services; Bronze: ARRI, Hawk Anamorphic Los Angeles LP; J.L. Fisher, Inc.; Additional partners include: American Society of Cinematographers, ICG Magazine; and Picture Shop. Sponsor proceeds go towards the ICG Scholarship & Preservation Fund, Inc. which offers educational scholarships for Local 600 members and their eligible family members and dependents.
“The ECA’s are unique because Local 600 is the only organization that honors our newest talent,” said Steven Poster, ASC, chair of the ECA committee. “We’re thrilled to give our members what is often the first recognition they will receive in their likely long and storied cinematography careers!”
Jimmy Matlosz, co-chair of the Guild’s ECA committee says, “After honoring well over 200 aspiring cinematographers for the past 25 years, the ECA’s continue to support and showcase the talent within the union for their excellence in cinematography.”
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults โ two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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