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course of the numerous 3-D productions he has photographed, including Captain EO , Muppet*vision 3-D , T2 3-D: Battle Across Time and U2 3D . Without shying away from the technical aspects of shooting 3-D motion pictures, Anderson kept the discussion grounded and encouraging, telling the attendees, “There isn’t a place you can’t take a camera, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise,” and stressing that the most important rule to remember with 3-D is to not give the audience a bad experience. Equipment-rental company PS Production Services opened its 57,000square-foot Vancouver facility for a second day of sold-out seminars, which began in the morning with a lighting workshop conducted by Lesnie, who was in Vancouver shooting Rise of the Apes . Lesnie showed clips from Babe, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and I Am Legend, and created a variety of lighting effects while fielding questions from the audience. “Great cinematography,” Lesnie enthused, “is about shooting the subtext.” That afternoon, Anderson joined Lesnie for an audience Q&A moderated by cinematographer Karl Herrmann, CSC. The conversation ran the gamut from the evolving role of the cinematographer to general lighting tips and tricks. Working in the motion-picture industry, the cinematographers agreed, demands a profound passion for visual storytelling — something the Vancouver community has in spades. — Jon D. Witmer Snyder Becomes Associate Kim Snyder , the president and general manager of Kodak’s Entertainment Imaging business in the Film, Photofinishing and Entertainment Group, has joined the Society as an associate member. Snyder joined Kodak in 1984 as a systems analyst, and she held a number of IT and finance roles with the company until 1998, when she joined the Entertainment Imaging division as financing director. In 2000, Snyder was named Entertainment Imaging’s chief
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Above: Karl Herrmann, CSC (left) moderates a Q&A with Peter Anderson, ASC (center) and Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS during the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. Right: Associate member Kim Snyder.

financial officer and vice president; in 2003, she was made Canadian sales & marketing manager and vice president; and in 2006, she was promoted to general manager and vice president, Origination Products. In 2008, she was elected a corporate vice president by Kodak’s board of directors, and she was appointed to her current position; in this capacity, Snyder is responsible for all aspects of Kodak’s business with the motion picture and television industry, including both traditional negative and print film technologies as well as evolving digital technologies for originating, exhibiting and archiving motion pictures. Houghton in Conversation Tom Houghton, ASC recently participated in Createasphere’s “ American Cinematographer Conversations” series during Createasphere’s Entertainment Technology Exposition in N ew York. Moderated by AC contributor Iain Stasukevich, the conversation covered Houghton’s work in television and features, including his Emmy-nominated cinematography for the series Rescue Me. ACS Purchases National Headquarters The Australian Cinematographers Society has acquired a national headquarters, which will serve as a meeting place for members from all of the Society’s branches along with visitors from the motion-picture industry and other guilds and societies. Located at 22 Ridge St. in N orth Sydney, the building has been christened the John Leake OAM ACS N ational Headquarters after the late cinematographer, one of the ACS’ founders. ●
VLAFF photo by Jorge Posada.

Vancouver Welcomes ASC Peter Anderson, ASC and Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS recently participated in a series of lighting workshops and seminars organized in conjunction with the 8th annual Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. AC was on hand to enjoy the events. The festival’s 11-day screening schedule included 25 features and 34 shorts hailing from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Spain. This year marked the festival’s third annual collaboration with the ASC to present the seminar series. Anderson kicked off the educational series with a 3-D seminar hosted by Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Held inside Emily Carr’s Intersections Digital Studios’ state-of-the-art motion-capture and visualization stage, the sold-out seminar gave attendees a look behind the curtain of stereoscopic filmmaking as Anderson shared tips and tricks learned over the
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