From the moment Joel discovered video cameras he started documenting the crazy adventures he and his friends encountered. As a teenager he started compiling this footage into a public access show, eventually shooting and editing a feature length film that became quite popular in the local community. Setting off across the country, he next combined his love of videography and dangerous antics by filming extreme sporting events for XSTV. Joel Hodge and Evan Glodell met while working at Internet start-up company STIM TV, quickly becoming best friends and creative collaborators. They teamed up on many projects, from concept to completion, such as the web-based sitcom Boss of the Glory, Easter A.D and Cursive's "Let Me Up" music video. The duo also worked on the award-winning short film SAVANNA and the feature-length horror movie Placebo. Joel prides himself on mastering any new Coatwolf camera constructed by Glodell, a task which is very challenging and unconventional. It has become a long-standing dare for Glodell to create something that Joel can't handle. Bellflower marks Joel's debut as Director of Photography on a feature film.
Born in the United States, Jeffrey spent his formative years around the world, living in seven cities in four countries on three continents before the end of high school. At a young age, he developed a serious interest in both stop-motion animation and photography—interests that persist in informing his professional work today. His fascination with cinematography and eagerness to pursue a career in filmmaking earned him a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California's Cinema-Television Production program and an MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute Conservatory. Garnering two Best Cinematography awards at international festivals for his AFI thesis film, Jeffrey dove into the freelance world, shooting features, short films, commercials, music videos and documentaries.
His feature film work includes The Dynamiter, an Official Selection of both the Berlin and Los Angeles Film Festivals, lauded by critics as "beautifully lensed" (LA WEEKLY) and "well-shot, a beautiful work of cinema," (GIANT ROBOT), and Searching for Sonny, starring Friday Night Lights‘ Minka Kelly and Heroes‘ Masi Oka, the original trailer for which won him an interview in Popular Photography and coverage in Filmmaker Magazine.
His documentary work has brought him around the world, from Haiti to Colombia to Rwanda and his directorial debut, Loy Krathong, for which he also composed the score, won Best Short Documentary at two international festivals: "the gorgeous cinematography translates the whole experience as an explosion of colors. Jeffrey Waldron's saturated and luscious travelogue could entice anyone to visit Thailand and linger," (JACKSON FREE PRESS). He has photographed national commercials, music videos featured on MTV, BET and Fuse, and interview segments with pop culture's biggest celebrities including Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Jodie Foster and William Shatner.
Jeffrey is also a multi-instrumental musician and stop-motion animator, but his greatest passion lies in the creation of evocative imagery to tell stories, long and short, fiction and fact.
The Artist is Guillaume Schiffman's 25th film as a director of photography, and his third collaboration with writer/director Michel Hazanavicius, following the hit comedies OSS 117 Cairo: Nest of Spies and OSS 117 – Lost in Rio. He has shot films for a variety of acclaimed directors, among them Catherine Breillat, Albert Dupontel and Xavier Durringer.
The son of famed screenwriter Isabelle Schiffman, Schiffman began his career as an assistant operator for cinematographer Dominique Chapuis. His first credit as director of photography was in 1992 on Bruno Herbulot's Juste Avant Orage. The following year he began a collaboration with director Claude Miller that included the 1994's The Smile (Le Sourire) and 1998's The Class Trip (La Classe de Neige) in 1998.
Academy Award-nominated Darious Khondji, (A.S.C., A.F.C) was educated at New York University Film School and ICP (International Center of 29Photography). He shot his first film as director of photography while continuing to work in commercials, collaborating with such directors David Fincher, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Chris Cunningham, Lars von Trier and William Klein, among others.
For his work on Alan Parker's Evita, Khondji was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 69th Annual Academy Awards®, Best Cinematography at the 1997 BAFTA Film Awards, and Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography at the ASC Awards.
Khondji's other feature credits include Woody Allen's Anything Else; David Fincher's The Panic Room and Se7en (Chicago Film Critics Award winner, ASC-nominated); Danny Boyle's The Beach; Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate; Neil Jordan's In Dreams; Philippe Parreno's Zidane a Portrait of the 21st Century; Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection; Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (nominated for best cinematography at the Donatello Awards); Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The City of Lost Children and Delicatessen (both César-nominated for Best Cinematography); Michael Haneke's Funny Games; Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights, and Stephen Frears' Cheri.
Ben has shot a large number of recent festival favorites, including Humpday, The Freebie, Scout's Honor, Brand Upon the Brain! and Megan's own short film Eros. Ben and Megan have been working together in the Seattle film community for nearly a decade. In addition to The Off Hours, Ben also shot two other 2011 Sundance festival selections: The Catechism Cataclysm and The Lie.
Garfunkel and Oates probably aren’t what you expected when you first heard the band name. Instead of ’70s singer/songwriters, the duo are Los Angeles-based comedy-folk singers Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel) and Kate Micucci (Oates) who perform “Flight of the Conchords”-esque material to a growing fanbase. For their appearance on the Spirit Award stage, the pair went…
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