American Cinematographer - March 2013 - 74

Top to bottom: New ASC members
Enrique Chediak, Cort Fey and
Jon Joffin.
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March 2013

Society Welcomes 6 to
Active Membership
New active member Enrique
Chediak, ASC came to the United States
from Ecuador. He studied cinematography
at New York University under Sol Negrin,
ASC, and in 1996 he won cinematography
awards for three separate films at NYU’s
First Run Film Festival.
Chediak also won the cinematography award in the Dramatic category at the
1997 Sundance Film Festival for Hurricane
Streets. Since then, his feature credits have
included Desert Blue, Songcatcher, Down in
the Valley, The Good Girl, 28 Weeks Later
and 127 Hours (co-photographed with
Anthony Dod Mantle, ASC, BSC, DFF).
Cort Fey, ASC has been shooting
films for 24 years. He grew up in Seattle,
where his father was a freelance cameraman and editor for commercials, documentaries and narrative projects. His on-set visits
and minor roles in his father’s productions
gave him a taste of behind-the-scenes
action.
Fey’s interest in filmmaking picked
up at the University of Pennsylvania, where
he co-founded the Penn Film and Video
Foundation while earning a bachelor’s
degree in American history. His work led
him to the University of Southern California
School of Cinema Arts, where he earned a
master’s degree in film production.
He began his professional career as a
gaffer and a cinematographer in lowbudget independent films. He moved on to
shoot in the stunt and action unit for the
series Fastlane. Since then, he’s worked on
primetime series such as Cold Case, Bones,
Lost, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and
Grimm.
Jon Joffin, ASC grew up in South
Africa. His family’s 16mm projector served
as his gateway into the world of cinema,
allowing him to study rented film strips.
Joffin realized he wanted to become a cinematographer after watching Apocalypse
Now in a movie theater in Canada.
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He studied film at York University,
where he shot low-budget music videos
before becoming a camera assistant to
future ASC member Tobias Schliessler, with
whom he also worked as a focus puller and
camera operator. His work with Schliessler
led him to the series The X-Files, where he
worked with John Bartley, ASC, CSC as an
insert-unit and second-unit cinematographer.
Joffin went on to participate in such
projects as the A&E miniseries The Andromeda Strain (a 2008 ASC Award nominee)
and the Hallmark miniseries Alice, which
won a Leo Award in 2010 for Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Drama. He
won his second Leo in 2012 for the feature
Daydream Nation. Most recently, he shot
the feature Haunter, directed by Vincenzo
Natali.
Michael McDonough, ASC began
his artistic career as a printmaker. The Glasgow native studied fine art at the Glasgow
School of Art and received a master’s
degree at the Royal College of Art in
London. He won the Prix de Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome.
He shifted his focus to cinematography at New York University, where he studied under Sol Negrin, ASC. He worked as a
director of photography on Bowling for
Columbine and went on to tackle productions such as Down to the Bone, Diggers
and 13. His work on the 2011 Oscar-nominated film Winter’s Bone earned him an
Independent Spirit Award nomination and
won him a Chlotrudis Award.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Romeo
Tirone, ASC began his career as a camera
and lens technician in the rental department at General Camera in New York City.
As a freelance loader/second AC, he found
his way into the production of Aerosmith
and Run DMC’s “Walk This Way” music
video.
After moving to Los Angeles, he
worked as director of photography on
music videos for L.A. Guns, Warrant, Cheap

Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.

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