Special Events – 2013 Los Angeles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Events include The VIP Reception, Lifetime Achievement Awards,  Film Competition Awards Ceremony and an Exclusive Screening of “After Earth” sponsored by Sony Electronics.

Cine Gear Expo VIP is at The Paramount Theater and Paseo Grounds,  Friday, May 31st, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Cine Gear Expo VIP Reception

At the Paramount Theater and Paseo Grounds
Friday, May 31st, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Indy, Student Shorts, & Feature Film Competition winners will be announced

Screenings Thursday May 30. – Announcements at VIP Party 

Finalists for the Film Series and Competition

To be screened on Thursday, May 30th from Noon – 8:30pm 

 

Feature Film Finalists

Screening Room #5 – 12:00noon – 1:19pm

Stress Position – 1st Feature Finalist   $ 10.00

Director: A.J. Bond

Director of Photography: Amy Belling

Producers: Amy Belling, Jessica Cheung, A.J. Bond

 

Screening Room #5 - 1:30pm – 3:07pm

Pray for Japan– 2nd Feature Finalist    $10.00

Director: Stu Levy

Director of Photography: Stu Levy

Producers: Stu Levi

 

Screening Room #5 – 3:20pm – 4:57pm

Hotel Noir– 3rd  Feature Finalist     $10.00

Director: Sebastian Gutierrez

Director of Photography: Cale Finot

Producers: Steve Bing, Sebastian Gutierrez, Zack Schwartz

 

5 Student Short Finalists     $10.00

Screening Room #5 – 5:15pm – 7:10pm

Machsom    

Director: Joel Novoa
Producer: Bayard Outerbridge
Cinematographer: Jonas Sacks
School: American Film Institute

USAGI-SAN

Director: Patrick Dickinson
Producer: Elliot Williams
Director of Photography: Paola Suhonen
School: American Film Institute – Susan Dreztka

Forever in Hiatus  

Director: Andy Nguyen
Producer: Ko-Rely Pi
Director of Photography: Nguyen Trinh Hoan
School: Columbia University, New York – Eric Mendelsohn

Farewell Jimmy

Director: Sang Kim
Producer: Alvaro Baquero
Cinematographer: DJ McConduit
School: American Film Institute – Susan Dretzka

113 Degrees

Director: Sabrina Doyle
Producer: Matilde Barbagallo
Cinematographer: Stephen Paar
School: American Film Institute – Marie Cantin

 

5 Independent Short Finalists   $10.00

Screening Room #5 – 7:25pm – 8:25pm

CARJACK 

Director: Jeremiah Jones
Producers: Lauder Robinson, Jeremiah Jones, Pete Villani
Cinematographer: Pete Villani

Barbie Boy

Director: Nick Corporon
Producers: Derek Villanueva, Renee S. Baltsen, Nick Corporon
Cinematographer: Collin Brazie

Bolero

Director: Dennis Brucks
Producer: Tessa Bell
Cinematography: Chase Bowman

Kickstart Theft

Director: Frederic Goodich, ASC
Producers: Frederic Goodich, ASC, Bri Xandrick, Band Pro Film & Digital
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC

Old Skool Cafe 

Director: Patrick Moreau
Producer: Joyce Tsang
Cinematographers: Patrick Moreau & Joyce Tsang                                      

 

Cinematography Lifetime Achievement Award

The Cine Gear Expo 2013 Cinematography Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Haskell Wexler, ASC  in recognition of the significant contributions he has made to advancing the art and craft of Cinematography.

 

 Haskell Wexler, ASC is a three-time Oscar winner for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bound For Glory, and for the documentary Interview With My Lai Veterans.

            He also has Oscar nominations for Blaze, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Matewan, and in 2001 was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the HBO film 61*. In all, Wexler has over 40 feature credits, and he has also shot a long list of documentaries, plus several IMAX films, and hundreds of commercials. In 1993, Wexler received the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award.

            Wexler was born and raised in Chicago. He came west to attend the University of California at Berkeley. After a year, he volunteered to become an ordinary seaman in the merchant marine at the start of World War II. He survived several torpedo attacks and one sinking. After the war, his father helped him open a film studio in a suburb of Chicago. It was short-lived experience. Mainly, he shot industrial films for his father’s business acquaintances.

            In 1947, Wexler joined the International Cinematographers Guild in Chicago as an assistant cameraman. He did some pickup work with Hollywood crews, but mainly Wexler shot documentaries for Encyclopedia Britannica. Later in the ‘50s, Wexler spent much of his time filming commercials for Kling Studios, which became Fred Niles Studios.

By the late 1950s he was determined to try his hand at narrative filmmaking. His first feature was Stakeout on Dope Street, a co-venture with Roger Corman. In 1959, Wexler attracted attention to his work with the stark, black-and-white film The Savage Eye, a brutally honest and provocative visualization of Los Angeles.

            He went on to shoot The Hoodlum Priest, A Face in the Rain and America, America. The latter was his ticket to Hollywood, and Wexler got work as an assistant cameraman on several television series, including Ozzie and Harriet.

            His first mainstream feature was The Best Man, followed by The Loved One. That led to Virginia Woolf. Wexler followed up quickly with such films as In the Heat of the Night and The Thomas Crown Affair. In 1968 Wexler wrote, directed, produced, and photographed Medium Cool. His feature credits also include Other People’s Money, The Babe, The Secret of Roan Inish, and Muholland Falls.

            Today, Wexler still doesn’t skip a beat, working on narratives and documentaries, including operating the camera when the Society of Camera Operators volunteered to document the journey of the Space Shuttle Endeavour to its final home at the California Science Center.

 

The Awards ceremony is part of the VIP Party at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood.


 

Technical Lifetime Achievement Award

The Cine Gear Expo 2013 Technical Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Cooke Optics Limited and Mr. Les Zellan, in recognition of the significant contributions Cooke has made to advancing the art and craft of film making.

A Cooke Look Back

Timeline of Cooke Cine Lens History
The recent surge of interest in Cooke Series II and III and other classic lenses suggested the time was right for this article by Barbara Lowry.
There is a short list of prolific Cooke optical designers who were responsible for major innovations that helped define the look ofmotion pictures for the past 118 years.
William and Thomas Smithies Taylor were mechanical and optical geniues. They opened their first workshop while still in school. In 1885, they moved to Slate Street in Leicester, England to set up a business as “Manufacturers of Optical Instruments.” In 1887,William Hobson joined them as sales manager. The firm was named Taylor, Taylor & Hobson. They built the first Cooke lens in 1894, after T. Cooke & Sons of York (makers of telescopes, but not interested in photography) offered Taylor, Taylor & Hobson the manufacturing rights to a Triplett photographic lens that solved
the problem of edge softness. The 3-section lens was designed by Dennis Taylor (not a relative).
William Taylor invented, among other things, the standardized screw thread for photographic lenses (1892), the dimpled golf ball (1905), engraving machines, and many devices for making lenses at tolerances that can still compete with contemporary equipment. William Taylor hired optical designer Arthur Warmisham 1912.
Warmisham filed 70 optical patents, from 1922 through the late 1930s—more than any other person or company. His designs included the Cooke Varo, a 1931 zoom lens for cinematography.
Warmisham hired Horace W. Lee as an optical designer shortly after—in 1913. Rudolf Kingslake, head of the Optical Design Department of Eastman Kodak in 1937, among other distinctions, said, “Horace Lee was one of England’s foremost and most original lens designers.” Lee was responsible for the first f/2.0 lens, the subsequent Cooke Speed Panchro design, and the telecentric (reverse telephoto) lens design for use on 3-strip Technicolor cameras.
In 1948, Warmisham hired Gordon Cook, who was responsible for many Cooke zoom lenses. His 1971 Cooke Varotal 20-100mm was innovative and breathtaking: it did not breathe at all. This was a first. The Varotal was also the first zoom lens for 35mm cinematography with a sealed and fixed front element. It had excellent performance and was easy to service—innovations incorporated in all Cooke zooms ever since. In 1988, the Academy honored him with the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for his lifetime contributions to the motion picture industry, the first time this award
went to someone outside the United States.
In 1998, Les Zellan, then U.S. distributor of Cooke lenses, bought the Cooke lens division of Taylor-Hobson. The existing factory where Cooke lenses had been made was so run down that seagull feathers would float down through holes in the roof. Les built a new 21,000 sq. ft. factory about 4 miles away, and moved all the equipment, machines, and existing personnel, including Mark Craig Gerchman, who became chief optical designer. The Cooke
brand continued under a new company name: Cooke Optics Limited.

 For the Full Article click on the link below 

http://www.cookeoptics.com/cooke.nsf/0/D94E1C14FBC2FFAC8525762C006DC126/$FILE/Cooke-Book-for-IBC2012.pdf

 

Biography

Les Zellan is chairman of Cooke Optics Limited, maker of Cooke lenses, the legendary lens brand that captured virtually all films shot in Hollywood during the first half of the 20th century.   Zellan is a 1973 graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University with a master’s degree in Technical Theatre.

After graduation, Zellan sold, designed and installed theatrical stage lighting systems for Berkey Colortran and then became sales director at a film equipment rental company in New York City.  That association led him to an emerging product, the Aaton 16mm camera, and Zellan’s company, Zellan Enterprises Ltd., was formed in New York City in 1979 to promote and sell the product for Aaton in the U.S. as exclusive importer and distributor.  He added Cooke lenses as well as Canon and OpTex to his distributorship shortly thereafter.  

In 1998, Zellan purchased the Cooke lens division from Taylor-Hobson of Leicester, England, naming the new company, Cooke Optics Limited, and moved it to a new, purpose built facility within Leicester, four miles from where Cooke lenses had been made since 1894.  A year later, his new design team won 1999 Science and Technical Academy Awards, 1999 Primetime Emmy Awards and a CINEC award (Munich, Germany) for the optical and mechanical design of the company’s new Cooke S4 Prime lenses for 35mm/Super35mm cinematography.

On February 9, 2013, Zellan accepted a Science and Technology Academy Award of Merit (Oscar statue) on behalf of Cooke Optics Limited “for continuing innovation in the design, development and manufacture of advanced camera lenses that have helped define the look of motion pictures over the last century.”  

Mr. Zellan commutes regularly between the Cooke facility in Leicester, England and his home in the United States.  He is an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers and lectures at colleges on the art of lens manufacture.

  The Awards ceremony is part of the VIP Party at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood.

 

Friday, May 31, 6:30pm – 8:30pm  Paramount Theater

Special “After Earth” Screening

Admission Complimentary.  Sponsored by Sony

As part of the Cine Gear Expo experience, Sony Electronics is hosting an exclusive 4K screening of the upcoming Sony Pictures Entertainment feature film “After Earth,” from acclaimed director M. Night Shyamalan. The movie is the latest release shot with Sony’s flagship F65 digital motion picture camera, and it will be shown at the Paramount Studios Theater in 4K. Sony is also planning a panel discussion with the filmmakers and the production team. Be among the first to see the newest 4K blockbuster and hear first-hand from the professionals who created the movie. The event will be held on Friday, May 31, 2013, with the activities beginning promptly at 6:30 pm.  

This special event is open to registered Cine Gear Expo attendees and Sony guests.

 

 

Director M. Night Shyamalan and Cinematographer Peter Suschitzky on the set of “After Earth,” the latest major motion picture release that was shot with Sony’s F65 4K camera.

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credit: Frank Masi, SMPSP

Special Screening: Saturday, June 1 , 5:30PM – 7:30pm at The Paramount Theater                                  

Admission Complimentary.  Sponsored by         

 

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