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FESTIVALS & EVENTS
AWARDSWINNERTHEHURTLOCKER
head of its theatrical release in A2009, Kathryn Bigelow’s The
Hurt Locker, photographed by Barry Ackroyd BSC, has been scooping up various festival
awards and plaudits.
At Venice, the story of an elite
US Army Explosive Ordnance Dis- posal team in Iraq, won the Signis Award, as well as the Arca Cinema- giovani Award (Arca Young Cinema Award) for Best Film Venezia 65 (chosen by an international youth jury), the Human Rights Film Net- work Award, and the La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award.
This film was also featured at Toronto, where it was listed as being among the “top six picks” of the Festival.
Filmed in Jordan during the middle of blazing summer, The Hurt Locker, with Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty, with cameos by Ralph Fiennes and Guy Pearce, was shot with four cameras on Super 16 and mostly hand-held.
The Hurt Locker was originated on 16mm Fujicolor ETERNA 500T 8673 and ETERNA 250D 8663
Photos: Cast and crew of The Hurt Locker on location in Jordan
NOVEMBERAIRING SHARPE’SPERIL FOrchha in Madhya Pradesh, November of one ITV1’s most popu-
ilmed around Khajuraho and
Photo right: Action man Sean Bean in Sharpe’s Peril; top: on location in India with DP James Aspinall (behind the camera); above: co-star Beatrice Rosen
lar drama series.
The new adventure, starring
Sean Bean in the title role with Daragh O’Malley as his trusty side- kick Harper, took up where 2006’s popular Sharpe’s Challenge left off.
Helmed by old hand Tom Clegg, who began directing (to date, 16) Sharpe yarns back in 1993, the latest, set in 1818, marked the first for DP James Aspinall.
Returning to the sub-continent for the first time in years, he says, “this was very rural India, in the middle of nowhere and it was suffer- ing terrible drought. The heat was often 40-50 degrees. It was an ex- traordinary adventure with the colours – often very little of it – and the way the light worked.
Sharpe’s Peril was originated on 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA 250D 8573 and Super F-64D 8522
the so-called ‘heart of India’, the two-part, three-hour Sharpe’s Peril saw the return in
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