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EXPOSURE
THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • SPRING 2001
EXPOSURE
T his issue’s Cover Story features colour- ful highlights from the ambitious world- wide shooting schedule of prolific wildlife producers Tigress. Co-founded by Tiger Aspect Productions, perhaps
better known for comedies and drama like Mr Bean, The Vicar Of Dibley and this year’s multi BAFTA winner Billy Elliot, Tigress is responsible for the ever-popular In The Wild series as well as the upcoming AFRICA, a lavish new eight-hour focus on the Dark Continent.
Our trio of Behind The Camera profiles take us from the steamy heat of the Caribbean to a pair of damp UK locations during the wettest domestic 12 months for 200 years. After a break of twenty years, ERNIE VINCZE BSC rejoined Merchant Ivory Productions in Trinidad for the company’s 39th film, an adap- tation of VS Naipaul’s comic first novel, The Mystic Masseur. Vincze is not only a busy and distinguished working DP but he’s also Head of Cinematography at the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield.
The rains have been less tropical and rather more persistent in South Wales and The Wirral where we find DOUG HALLOWS and DAMIAN BROMLEY. Hallows, who trained first at the BBC before becoming a long-time foot soldier at Granada, makes his feature debut on Arthur’s Dyke, starring Pauline Quirke, with whom he’s also now re-united on the BBC’s popular prime- time series Down To Earth. Bromley was a Fuji Scholarship award-winner in 1990, coincidental- ly the same year as director Jim Doyle. The pair, who first collaborated on Going Off Big Time, have just completed their second feature
together, Reinventing Eddie, a dark comedy with John Lynch, Geraldine Somerville and Cold Feet’s John Thomson.
Fuji regular Tony Pierce-Roberts BSC has been locked away at Pinewood for the last six months on what’s heralded as perhaps the biggest television series ever made. At $80m and six hours, DINOTOPIA is a mega fantasy adventure - for airing in 2002 - set on an unchart- ed Caribbean island where man and dinosaurs attempt to co-exist. First-time feature director, twentysomething Phil Claydon has been work- ing with a tiny fraction of that budget for his debut Alone, a fast-moving shocker which craftily turns the camera into a killer. Reports too from the sets of MRS CALDICOT’S CABBAGE WAR, starring evergreen Pauline Collins, and Mad Dogs, a “dark comedy of the apocalypse.”
To Scotland for the latest in our series on film commissions. Since starting up in 1993 the GLASGOW FILM OFFICE has helped host a string of fine productions from Shallow Grave and Small Faces to Ratcatcher and, most recently, Berlin Film Festival winner Late Night Shopping. To Paris for a survey of great French cinematogra- phers and their latest work. And to Holland where Burt Reynolds, Julie Christie and yet another member of the prolific Chaplin clan, grand daughter Carmen, have been going Dutch on THE HERMIT OF AMSTERDAM.
All this, plus a report on TECHNICOLOR IMAGING’s new facility, a delve into Sir John Mills’ MOVING MEMORIES, behind the scenes on two new shorts, FOR WANT OF A KISS and WATCHMEN, and our first COMMERCIAL BREAK feature focus with DP Barry Ackroyd BSC in charge. ■
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.fujifilm.co.uk
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