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Henry Braham BSC has won this year’s Primetime Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Best Cinematography for his work on the mini- series Shackleton, which he shot on Fuji.
The citation specified the concluding second part of
the £10m period drama
which dramatically recreated
the icy leg of the explorer’s ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole and his epic journey to bring home safely his 28-man crew.
Braham is currently working on Bright Young Things, Stephen Fry’s directing debut, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s biting satire, Vile Bodies, co-starring Emily Mortimer Michael Sheen Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Simon Callow, Stockard Channing, and Richard E Grant. It is also originated on Fuji.
Elsewhere in the Emmys, two other Fuji-filmed productions received awards: The Gathering Storm, which earned Albert Finney, Best Actor, and Hugh Whitemore, Best Writing; and Dinotopia, named for its Outstanding Special Visual Effects.
Band Of Brothers, partly originated on Fuji, won four awards, including Outstanding Miniseries and Best Direction (Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special).
Meanwhile... at this year’s British Independent Film Awards, cinematog- rapher Alwin Kuchler earned Best Technical Achievement for his work on Morvern Callar, which was partly originated on Fuji.
And at the Chichester Film Festival, Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War, shot on Fuji by Sue Gibson BSC, won the prestigious Audience Award. Starring Pauline Collins, John Alderton, Peter Capaldi and Paul Freeman, will be released theatrically in the UK early next year. ■
ALL ABOUT AWARDS
Photos clockwise from top left: Emmy Award winner DP Henry Braham BSC behind the camera on location and, third from left, with the crew of Shackleton; Albert Finney as Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm; Pauline Collins in Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War; A scene from Morvern Callar
The chalk giant on a hill near the sleepy Dorset town of Cerne Abbas is popularly believed to be a potent source of fertility for would-be parents. So it’s an appropriate setting for the saucily comic Fertile Ground, from co- writer/director Keir Alexander who won the DM Davies Award at the
International Film Festival of Wales in Cardiff two years ago
for his earlier short Blue Kenny.
Using his prize of Fuji
stock, Alexander linked up with producer John Wilkins and
Cardiff-based pro- duction company CF1 together with veteran cinematog-
rapher Peter Thornton to make Fertile Ground.
The film, co-starring Phillip How, Donna Edwards, Nicki Rainsford and Matt Morgan, features the misadven- tures of two very different couples trying to attempt a rather hazardous hilly conception.
Except, in this case, the Caerphilly Mountain and some judicious art direction proved a more than able Welsh stand-in for the real thing.
Said Wilkins: “It’s meant to be set in a beautiful twilight on Midsummer’s Eve. We shot for three days in March so we’ve had to cheat quite a bit. A lot was done in the grading.”
Fertile Ground was, in the tradition of previous DM Davies Award winners, opening film at this year’s International Film Festival of Wales, held from November 21-27.
And Fujifilm was, once again, one of the sponsors for the 14th annual Festival’s prestigious short film award. It’s presented to a director of Welsh origin or who has lived in Wales for two years or more. ■
MADE IN WALES
Photos from top: A scene from Fertile Ground; Co-writer/Director Keir Alexander and DP Peter Thornton on location during filming
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