American Cinematographer - February 2016 - 94

Clubhouse News

Left: Gary Capo, ASC. Right: Lula Carvalho, ASC, ABC.

Society Welcomes Capo,
Carvalho
New active member and Southern
California native Gary Capo, ASC sparked
to action photography early on, borrowing
his father's 8mm camera to film his friends
and fellow surfers. After graduating from
Brooks Institute with a degree in underwater
photography, he spent 18 months traveling
the world to make the self-financed 16mm
surfing movie Many Classic Moments. The
success of that project led to a job at Warren
Miller Films, and from there Capo moved on
to shoot commercials, TV news and two
Olympic Games. Capo caught his Hollywood
break when a short film he had directed and
shot caught the eye of director Randal
Kleiser, who brought him aboard White
Fang as 2nd-unit director-cinematographer.
Soon after, a former colleague approached
him about Baywatch, and Capo worked on
that hit series for four seasons, shooting and
directing 2nd unit and doing some main-unit
work as well.
As a 2nd-unit director and cinematographer, Capo has collaborated with
many ASC members, including John Toll, on
The Thin Red Line; John Schwartzman, on
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian; Eduardo Serra, on Blood Diamond;
Caleb Deschanel, on Fly Away Home; and
Roberto Schaefer, on the upcoming
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Geostorm. Capo's main-unit cinematography credits include Final Destination 2, Cellular and the upcoming release The Concerto.
New active member Lula Carvalho,
ASC, ABC was born in Rio de Janiero in
1977 and spent his childhood on film sets
with his father, the acclaimed cinematographer and director Walter Carvalho. At age
10, he learned how to load magazines in the
camera department, and by age 20 he was
working as a 1st AC. He pulled focus on
more than 19 Brazilian features, including
City of God, Behind the Sun and Carandiru.
During this time, he also worked on short
films, documentaries and music videos, and
lent his talents to features as a second-unit
cinematographer and camera operator. In
2005, Carvalho shot Incuráveis, his first
feature as 1st-unit director of photography.
Carvalho was awarded Best Cinematography accolades for Elite Squad and Elite Squad
2: The Enemy Within from both the Brazilian
Cinema Academy and the Brazilian Foreign
Press Association.
Carvalho's first U.S. studio feature
was Robocop (2014), followed by Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). His credits also
include the television series Narcos, and he
recently won the ABC Award and the
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for Best Cinematography for A Wolf at the Door.

American Cinematographer

Yedlin Releases
Display-Prep Demo
Steve Yedlin, ASC, recently
released a seven-minute demo film that
explores how characteristics of an image's
look that are often attributed to a capture
format can be manipulated precisely and
individually during preparation for display.
Yedlin shot the demo in July 2015 and
presented it at this year's Camerimage. The
material was mastered in uncompressed 4K
for theatrical projection and is available
online in digitally compressed, lower-resolution formats. The demo can be viewed at:
www.yedlin.net/DisplayPrepDemo.
Society, AC Attend Camerimage
The 23rd Camerimage International
Film Festival recently wrapped in Bydgoszcz,
Poland. Ed Lachman, ASC won the 2015
Golden Frog for the period drama Carol (AC
Dec. '15). Numerous ASC members served
on the festival's juries, and a number of
others - as well as AC editor-in-chief and
publisher Stephen Pizzello, and contributors
Benjamin B and Iain Marcks - also
attended and participated in panels, workshops and other activities.
For more information about the
ASC's participation and the Camerimage
festival as a whole, visit www.theasc.com.
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Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.

Kaufmann Named Associate
New associate member Andreas
Kaufmann currently serves as chairman of
the Leica supervisory board and has helped
bring the classic Leica brand into the digital
age. After studying at the University of
Stuttgart and serving as a history teacher
for 15 years, Kaufmann and his brothers
purchased a percentage of Leica in 2004;
by 2006, he was sole owner of ACM, which
had become the majority shareholder of
Leica and owner of CW Sonderoptic, the
latter of which was formed in 2007 to
develop Summilux-C lenses.

http://www.yedlin.net/DisplayPrepDemo http://www.theasc.com

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