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Craig Wrobleski
Craig Wrobleski is a Canadian cinematographer, best known for his work on the television series Fargo, Legion and The Umbrella Academy. Career After graduating from the Broadcasting Program at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Craig Wrobleski started working as a studio cameraman at CFCN Television. After leaving CFCN, he worked on many independent productions, often volunteering his time to learn about the world of dramatic production and build relationships. This led to opportunities to get behind the camera for documentaries. Craig's documentary work took him all over North America and Europe for films including Chrome Dreams (a 4-part history of the automobile), The Geometry of Love (based on the book by Margaret Visser and shot in Rome and Toronto), God's Explorers (a feature length doc about Jesuit missionaries in Northern Canada) and Hitman Hart; Wrestling with Shadows. Wrobleski also served as a camera operator for the cycling events at the 1994 Commonwealth Games i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera and light crews working on such projects and would normally be responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image and for selecting the camera, film stock, lenses, filters, etc. The study and practice of this field is referred to as cinematography. The cinematographer is a subordinate of the director, tasked with capturing a scene in accordance with director’s vision. Relations between the cinematographer and director vary. In some instances, the director will allow the cinematographer complete independence, while in others, the director allows little to none, even going so far as to specify exact camera placement and lens selection. Such a level of involvement is less common when the direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Gonzales
Dana W. Gonzales (born November 18, 1963) is an American director and cinematographer from Los Angeles, California. Career Dana is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, the Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences, and the Television Academy. A regular cinematographer on ''Fargo'', he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie for the episode " Waiting for Dutch". Filmography Feature films * ''Man in the Chair'' (2007) * ''Felon'' (2008) * '' Down for Life'' (2009) * ''Empire State'' (2013) * ''Snitch'' (2013) * ''Criminal'' (2016) * ''Incarnate'' (2016) * '' Shot Caller'' (2017) * ''Greenland'' (2020) * ''The Toxic Avenger'' (2023) * ''Centurion'' (2023) irector Television series * ''Pretty Little Liars'' (2010-2012) lso director* '' Southland'' (2010-2013) * ''Longmire'' (2013-2016) * ''Fargo'' (2014-2020) lso director* ''Legion'' (2017-2019) lso director* '' Chambers'' (2019) lso director* ''Hanna'' (2019) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiro Murai
Hiro Murai (born 1983) is a Japanese-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His most notable works include internationally successful music videos for artists such as Childish Gambino, Earl Sweatshirt, Chet Faker, Flying Lotus, David Guetta, St. Vincent, The Shins, The Fray, Bloc Party, Queens of the Stone Age, and FKA Twigs. He received a Grammy Award in 2019 for Best Music Video for " This is America" with Childish Gambino. He also received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the FX series ''Atlanta'' (2016–present), and the HBO limited series ''Station Eleven'' (2022). He is a frequent director of Bill Hader's HBO series ''Barry'' (2018-present) and executive produces the Hulu series '' The Bear'' (2022-present). Early life and education Murai was born to Japanese popular music composer Kunihiko Murai. He moved to Los Angeles when he was nine years old. He graduated with a degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. After graduation, Murai turned to freelance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larysa Kondracki
Larysa Kondracki is a Canadian producer, director and screenwriter. Her debut feature film, '' The Whistleblower'', was released in 2011 and received nominations for six Genies at the 32nd Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. She has received international accolades for reporting true stories of victims of trafficking in the former Yugoslavia. Life Kondracki was originally from Toronto; she studied English literature and theatre at McGill University, graduating in 1999. She later completed a second BA in film directing at Columbia University, graduating in 2001. She also studied at the MFA in film program at Columbia University School of the Arts until 2006. Based in Los Angeles, Kondracki has written projects for Focus Features, HBO Films, Participant Media, and Showtime Entertainment, among others. Work Kondracki's career kicked off with her breakout short film, "Viko," about a seventeen-year-old boy in Yugoslavia, who, struggling to earn money for a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoo (TV Series)
''Zoo'' is an American drama television series based on the 2012 novel of the same name by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, the former also serving as an executive producer for the series, which stars James Wolk, Kristen Connolly, Nonso Anozie, Nora Arnezeder and Billy Burke as a group of varied professionals who investigate the mysterious outbreak of violent animal attacks upon humans all over the world. ''Zoo'' premiered on June 30, 2015, on CBS. CBS renewed the series for a third season in August 2016, which aired between June 29 and September 21, 2017. On October 23, 2017, CBS announced the series had been cancelled after three seasons. Premise Violent animal attacks upon humans are occurring all over the world. Jackson Oz, an American zoologist and his Kenyan friend, Abraham Kenyatta, a safari guide, as well as Jamie Campbell, a Los Angeles reporter, Mitch Morgan, a quirky veterinary pathologist, and a French intelligence agent, Chloe Tousignant, all seek to inve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Barker (director)
Mike Barker (born 29 November 1965) is a British film director. His 2003 film '' To Kill a King'' was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. Filmography *'' The Sandman'' (2022) *'' Luckiest Girl Alive'' (2022) *'' Hit & Run'' (TV series) (2021) *''The Handmaid's Tale'' TV series, seasons 1–5 (2017–22) *''Fargo'' TV series, season 3 (2017) *''Versailles'' TV series (2017) *'' The Tunnel'' TV series (2016) *''Broadchurch'' TV series (2015) *'' Outlander'' TV series, seasons 1–2 (2014–16) *''Rogue'' TV series (2014) *'' The Smoke'' TV series (2014) *''Silent Witness'' TV series (2013) *''Moby Dick'' TV miniseries (2011) *'' Sea Wolf'' TV miniseries (2009) *''Butterfly on a Wheel'' (2007) *'' A Good Woman'' (2004) *'' To Kill a King'' (2003) *''Lorna Doone'' TV mini series (2000) *'' Best Laid Plans'' (1999) *''The James Gang'' (1997) *'' The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' TV miniseries (1996) *''Silent Witness ''Silent Witness'' is a British crime dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Gordon
Keith Gordon (born February 3, 1961) is an American actor and film director. Early life Gordon was born in New York City, the son of Mark, an actor and stage director, and Barbara Gordon. He grew up in an atheist Jewish family. Gordon was inspired to become an actor at the age of twelve, after seeing James Earl Jones in a Broadway production of ''Of Mice and Men''. Career As an actor, Gordon's first feature film role was that of class clown Doug in ''Jaws 2'' (the 1978 sequel to the blockbuster hit '' Jaws''). In 1979 Gordon appeared in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical '' All That Jazz'' as the teenage version of the film's protagonist Joe Gideon (played by Gordon's ''Jaws 2'' co-star Roy Scheider). Gordon then appeared in two films by Brian De Palma: as a film student in '' Home Movies'' (1979) and in the 1980 erotic thriller '' Dressed to Kill'' as the son of Angie Dickinson's character. Gordon played Arnie Cunningham, the main character (who buys the titular car Christin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Uppendahl
Michael Uppendahl is an American television and film director. He is well known for his work on the AMC period drama ''Mad Men''; the FX shows ''American Horror Story'', ''Fargo'', and ''Legion''; and the Fox musical/dramedy ''Glee''. Career His first television credit came from directing 4 episodes of the CBS sitcom '' Becker'', from 2003-2004. He wrote, directed and produced the 2009 short film ''A Hundred & Forty-Six Questions'', starring Jamie Anne Allman. Since 2008, Uppendahl has directed 7 hours of the AMC drama ''Mad Men'', for which he has received critical acclaim. In 2011 and 2012, Uppendahl joined the crews of Fox's ''Glee'' and FX's ''American Horror Story'', directing 2 episodes of the former and 3 of the latter. In 2013, Uppendahl made his feature film directorial debut with ''Grounded'' (formerly under the working title, ''Quad''), a drama about a salesman that becomes a quadriplegic. It was co-written by Michael Burke, Mike Young, Robin Veith, and Brett Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Talalay
Rachel Talalay (born July 16, 1958) is a British-American film and television director and producer. She is also a University of British Columbia film professor. Early life and education Talalay was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father Paul Talalay was a pharmacologist, born in Berlin to a Russian Jewish family, and her mother Pamela is an English biochemist. She has two sisters and a brother. She was raised mostly in Baltimore, Maryland, with two years of her childhood in Britain. Talalay attended Yale, where she majored in mathematics, graduating in 1980. She also ran the Yale Film Society. Career Talalay worked in a number of different capacities in filmmaking before making her directorial debut with the film '' Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' (1991). Talalay also worked on the first four ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' films. Her work with the earlier ''Nightmare'' films utilized her computer skills and finding ways to create better special effects while still keeping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam Christiansen
Cam Christiansen is an award winning Canadian filmmaker, most noted for his 2017 feature documentary film ''Wall''.Eric Volmers"Cam Christiansen, David Hare and the NFB break down barriers with animated 'essay' Wall" ''Calgary Herald'', September 15, 2017. and the 2023 feature documentar''Echo of Everything'' Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, he studied painting and animation at the Alberta College of Art and Design.Eric Volmers"Alberta filmmaker highlights controversial barrier in animated documentary, Wall" ''Edmonton Journal'', September 14, 2018. Cam Christiansen’s films have screened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival and Toronto International film festivals, and twice made the latter’s Top Ten list of Canadian short films. Wall (Annecy, Copenhagen); The Real Place (Sundance, TIFF Top 10); I Have Seen the Future (Sundance, TIFF Top 10) Wall written and starred two time Oscar nominee David Hare. His current feature ''Echo of Everything'' will have its World Premier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Held Hostage
''Held Hostage'' is a Lifetime Movie starring Julie Benz that aired on July 19, 2009. It is based on the true story of Michelle Renee Ramskill-Estey who also wrote the novel. Hal Foxton Beckett was nominated for a Leo Award for the music featured in the movie. Plot Michelle Ramskill-Estey (Julie Benz), a single mother, is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to save her only child's life while they are both wired to explode. Actual events In November 2000, Michelle Ramskill-Estey and her 7-year-old daughter Breea Ramskill returned to their Needles, California home, only to find 4 men, armed with guns. They strapped fake bombs to the two and ordered Ramskill-Estey to drive to a Bank of America location, where she worked, and give them the $360,000 in the vault. Three people were charged, two men and one woman. The two men were convicted and the woman was acquitted of all charges. The story was shown on '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Dale
Holly Dale (born December 23, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and television director. Over the course of her career, Dale has worked in the Canadian film and television industry as a director, producer, writer, and editor. Although she has completed solo projects, the majority of Dale's work has been in collaboration with her former classmate, Janis Cole. ''The Thin Line'' (1977), '' P4W: Prison for Women'' (1981), and ''Hookers on Davie'' (1984) are some of their most recognized projects. Dale's work has been featured in festivals around the world including North America, Europe, and Australia. She has also received award nominations and wins, including a Gemini Award in 1982 for the Best Theatrical Documentary for ''P4W: Prison for Women''. Early life and education Dale was raised in a low-income household in Toronto, Ontario. However, she decided to leave home as a teenager due to ongoing family conflict. During this time, she worked in non-therapeutic massage parlors in dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
