NY Expo Schedule

Join us for a lively VP Panel discussion! Talk includes:

• Panelist introductions
• What each panelist has been working on lately
• How each person got started in Virtual Production, what training or education you had to get there (if any!) and advice to others that want to jump on the train.

Moderator: Rosanne Limoncelli, PhD

Senior Director, Film Technologies Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
Martin Scorsese Center
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University

Panelists:

• Shelly Sabel, Designer and Creative Director, Fuse Technical Group & NYU Tisch Faculty
• Snow Yunxue Fu, New Media Artist, & NYU Tisch Professor
• David Poyner, Design Technologist, & NYU Tisch Faculty
• Joseph White, Virtual Production Producer, Founder Carstage
• Kimberly Dowd Petritsis, Director of Technology & Virtual Environment Programmer, Carstage
• Mark DePasquale, Director, VFX Supervisor, and Creative Producer
• Lauren Paul, VP of Sales & Marketing, Lux Machina Consulting | NEP Virtual Studios

Join Synology where we will discuss storage solutions and why video production enthusiasts and professionals should consider moving from stacks of external hard drives to a centralized data management and sharing platform.

With more than 30 years of experience, Astera’s own After-Sales Support Specialist, Thor Andre, gives an owner/rental-oriented introduction to the Astera eco-system. Learn how to cut down on time spent prepping lights. Make sure that your customers get the result they expect in terms of color, consistency and functionality. Optimize the crew’s efficiency when working with Astera lights and take full advantage of the latest firmware updates.

Presenter: Thor Andre, AfterSales Support Specialist, Astera LED Technology

Bolero Wireless Intercom introduction complete with a DEMO, Challenges and Prizes!
Learn how easy it is to start talking with Bolero Wireless Intercom. Get your hands on one the most loved communication devices in the industry. This mini session of Riedel Academy classes will help you quickly set one up and start communicating like a pro. Bring your computer and ethernet dongle to participate in the “hands-on” portion.

Instructor: Stephen Remich

In this special Cine Gear Documentary Panel, David Leitner will moderate a wide-ranging discussion about documentary filmmaking tools and techniques. Award-winning cinematographers Matt Porwoll (Cartel Land), Claudia Raschke (RGB) and Wolfgang Held, ASC (The Andy Warhol Diaries) will share their insights, knowledge and experiences from the field.

Panelists: (click name to view IMDB)

• Matt Porwoll
• Claudia Raschke
• Wolfgang Held, ASC

Bio’s
Matt Porwoll is an Emmy and Sundance award-winning documentary cinematographer based in New York.

Porwoll shot and produced the film Once Upon a Time in Uganda, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2021 DocNYC Film Festival. The feature documentary Cartel Land, which Matt shot and co-produced, won Best Cinematography Awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, 2016 Cinema Eye Honors and 2016 Primetime Emmys. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature.

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Claudia Raschke, Director of Photography, is an award-winning cinematographer. She has photographed independent feature films and documentaries for over 20 years and is best known for her smooth hand-held camera work and chiaroscuro lighting style. Her background training is in dance, martial arts and fine arts. Claudia is based in New York City.
Among her many notable award-winning films are: Oscar-nominated and Emmy winning RBG (Magnolia/ Participant/ CNN), Oscar short-listed JULIA (CNN / Imagine Entertainment/ Sony Classic), Critics Choice nominated FAUCI (NAT GEO/ Magnolia/ Disney+), Peabody winning and NAACP Image Award nominated MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY (Amazon Studios/Participant Media), Oscar short-listed and Emmy winning BOYS STATE (A24), Oscar-nominated GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS (HBO), Oscar short-listed MAD HOT BALLROOM (Paramount), PARTICLE FEVER (Bond 360), THE FREEDOM TO MARRY (Argot Pictures). Her latest documentary series work titled THE HOUSE OF HAMMER (Discovery) aired Sept of 2022.

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Wolfgang Held, ASC is self-taught in narrative camerawork and learned his craft by trial and error and by devouring the ASC magazines cover to cover. He has been the cinematographer of over 100 films, which have premiered at all the major international film festivals, won many awards and been nominated for Academy Awards twice, with one win. Individually he has won seven cinematography awards, including a Primetime Emmy. His cinematography has been singled out by the New York Times as “lushly sensual” and as having “the same penetrating vision of adolescence found in the photographs of Nan Goldin and Sally Mann.”

Wolfgang has photographed films for directors Ron Howard, Alex Gibney, Larry Charles, Matt Heineman, Liz Garbus, Sam Pollard, Joe Berlinger, Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgan and Gary Winick. Throughout his career he has made films with his wife Pola Rapaport. In 2013 he co-founded the Kamera Kollektiv New York City, a group of like-minded camerawomen and cameramen who share a passion for cinematic, social-justice inspired documentaries.

In the ever-changing world of production, producing professional video content at lower costs is the new normal. With limited budgets and shrinking crews, it’s essential to have a reliable camera system that fits your workflow needs in any environment. For Shooting with LUMIX: A Cinematographers Panel, see how cinematographers are using LUMIX cameras to capture dynamic shots for their film, television, and documentary projects.

Panelists (Subject to change):

• Sean Davis
• Nicholas Galante
• Kelly Cook-Hayden

Innovations around using cinematic cameras and techniques in multi-cam environments are continuing to grow. Professionals who have worked extensively on major multi-cam projects, will discuss their experiences with capturing different types of live performances, as well as the artistic, technical, and logistical considerations that go into these types of projects.

Moderator:

• Gabriel Mays (AbelCine)

Speakers:

• James Coker (Funicular Goats), others TBD

Moderator:

Michael Chambliss, Production Technology Specialist ICG Local 600

Panelists:

	Terrence L. Burke, Director of Photography, The Equalizer S2 & S3, Redemption in Cherry Springs, A Fall from Grace
	Joe Blodgett, Camera Operator, Equalizer S3, Bunker, Daughter of the Bride, A Holiday Spectacular
	Autumn Eakin, Director of Photography, The Invitation, Insecure, Modern Love, Insidious
	Jesse Coyote Sanchez-Strauss, Camera Operator, Insidious: Fear the Dark, Paint, Ziwe Season 2, Clerks III, The Front Room

Join DP turned Director Gonzalo Amat ASC (Take Me, Outer Banks, The Man In the High Castle), two-time Emmy winning DP Bill Winters (Hamilton, Rennervations, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich), and Indie Spirit Award nominated DP Tinx Chan (Our Father The Devil, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, The Jon Stewart Show) for a conversation about Sony cameras, composition and more.

The panelists will share their insight and creative process for the appropriate visual grammar that best serves the idea, mood and emotion of a scene. Each panelist will select and de-construct a scene from their recent work on a feature film. What choices were made with respect to format, camera placement (composition); choice of lenses; camera movement, lighting and workflow? 

• Frank DeMarco, ASC (All is Lost; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Rabbit Hole)
• Reed Morano, ASC (Lemonade, Frozen River, The Skeleton Twins)
• Frank Prinzi, ASC (The Virtuoso: The Enemy Within; Living in Oblivion; The Best Man)

Join us for a captivating roundtable discussion with gaffers, fixtures crew and production designers discussing how lighting is integrated into set design. Featuring illuminating examples from blockbuster films like Avengers, Iron Man, John Wick, and many more.

Follow the journey of optical evolution with Jay Holben, ASC Associate member, chair of the ASC Motion Imaging Technology Council’s Lens Committee, contributing technical editor for American Cinematographer Magazine and co-author of The Cine Lens Manual as he leads you on the path that lenses have taken over the past 140 years of motion pictures to today’s hot trends and what may be coming in the future. Gain a better understanding of the differences in modern vs. vintage lenses, why they have evolved as they have, and how to have a better insight into choosing optics for your next project.