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ELIZABETH REIGNS
Remi Adefarasin was named winner of the 1999 BSC Best Cinematography Award for his work on Elizabeth. Unable to attend the presentation at the Society’s annual Operators’ Night, he received the award later in Chicago on the set of Unconditional Love. Adefarasin’s trophy was collected on an early December night at Pinewood by his operator, Philip Sindall, who also picked up the Guild of British Camera Technicians’ Operator’s Award for both Elizabeth and Shakespeare In Love.
The David Lenham Award went to Joe Dunton for services to the indus- try while Frank Elliot turned out to be inaugural winner of the GBCT’s new award for focus pullers. The remaining
WINNING WAYS
Cinematographers have been cel- ebrated in various corners of the globe over the past few months. Sue Gibson (pictured right) received the Television Cinematography Award for Amongst Women at the first-ever Irish Film & Television Awards last December. John Downer’s (pictured far right) BBC series Super Natural won two Royal Television Society Awards, for Graphics and Design & Craft Innovation. At the Camerimage
SUITS ALL SCREENS
Lit by Dean Semler ASC with “additional photography by Tony Pierce Roberts BSC”, The Bone Collector, a US box office hit, is currently on release in the UK. The mystery-thriller, directed by Philip Noyce, was shot entirely on Fujifilm Super-F series negative, the lab work was done using Fujicolor Intermediate film and the release prints worldwide were made on Fujicolor HC Positive film.
Also on general release is Body Shots, spectacularly photographed on Fuji by Rodrigo Garcia (Danzon, Ma Vida Loca), son of Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One of the techniques used in this roller- coaster tale of eight twentysomethings in Los Angeles was to shoot some scenes at three to six frames per sec- ond and step print them down to 24 fps. The result is to make the models
two BSC awards, The Arri John Alcott Memorial Award and Bert Easey Technical Award, were received, respectively, by Robin Vidgeon - “for his enormous contribution to the aims and ideals of the Society” - and Laurie Frost, “for the development of remote control heads.”
Presided over by BSC President Freddie Francis with guest-of-honour director Karel Reisz alongside, the evening’s raffle raised over £3700. Part of that will go towards an electric wheelchair for ex-President, governor and member Paul Beeson with the rest being donated to the Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund and Great Ormond St Hospital. ■
Festival In Poland, cameraman Dick Pope and director Mike Leigh lifted the Duo Award for their fine teamwork (including Secrets And Lies). ■
The titles mentioned
were all originated on Fujicolor Motion Picture Negative
and objects that are moving in the frame appear very fast, causing them to blur around the character who is almost motionless.
Meanwhile, enjoying a six week run on the ITV network, is the prime- time Yorkshire TV drama At Home With the Braithwaites, starring Amanda Redman as a Leeds housewife who scoops £38 million on the Euro- Lottery... but doesn’t tell her deeply dysfunctional family. Directed by Robin Sheppard and Andy de Emmony, the series was shot on 16mm Fuji stock by Doug Hallows. ■
Photos above from left: The Bone Collector with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, Tara Reid and Amanda Peet in Body Shots; Amanda Redman in At Home With The Braithwaites
Photos from left: Freddie Francis and
Philip Sindall with Remi Adefarasin’s (inset) Best Cinematography Award; Karel Reisz with Joe Dunton; Freddie Francis and Karel Reisz; Winners line-up (l-r): Frank Elliot, Philip Sindall, Laurie Frost, Joe Dunton and Robin Vidgeon
CORRECTION
We have been asked to make it
clear that Tom Pollock of Outlaw Films conceived and directed Alfie In The Underworld (EXPOSURE, Autumn 1999).
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