American Cinematographer - January 2016 - 114

Clubhouse News

Barrett, Neihouse Accepted
Into Society
New active member Michael
Barrett, ASC was born in Riverside, Calif.
He received a bachelor's degree from the
University of California, Los Angeles, and a
master's degree from Columbia University.
He has since taught cinematography at both
schools and at the Los Angeles Film School.
He received two ASC Award nominations
for his work on the series CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation, and he won an ASC Award
for the pilot episode of CSI: Miami. Most
recently, Barrett shot the pilot for the series
Supergirl.
Barrett received a Camerimage
Golden Frog nomination for his work on the
feature Bobby. His feature credits also
include Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, You Don't Mess
With the Zohan, Bedtime Stories,
Zookeeper, About Last Night (2014), No
Good Deed, A Million Ways to Die in the
West, Ted and Ted 2.
Born and raised in Paris, Ark., new
active member James Neihouse, ASC
graduated from the Brooks Institute of
Photography. Within months of graduation,
he worked with Imax co-founder and coinventor Graeme Ferguson on the Imax
Dome production Ocean, filming underwater off the coast of Southern California.
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Neihouse has since worked on more than
30 Imax projects, including all of the
company's collaborations with NASA. Over
the course of the NASA projects, he has
trained more than 25 shuttle and spacestation crews on the intricacies of largeformat filmmaking.
His additional credits include The
Eruption of Mount St. Helens!, Blue Planet,
Mission to Mir, Michael Jordan to the Max,
Ocean Oasis, Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees and NASCAR: The Imax Experience. Neihouse has won two cinematography awards from the Giant Screen Cinema
Association, for Space Station 3D and
Hubble 3D. In 2010, he and four collaborators were honored with an Advanced Imaging Society Gold Award for the development of the Imax 30-perf single-strip 65mm
3D camera. Neihouse is also a member of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences.
Morano, Varese, Seale Speak
at Clubhouse
Reed Morano, ASC and Checco
Varese, ASC recently participated in separate "Coffee & Conversation" events held
at the Society's Clubhouse in Hollywood,
and John Seale, ASC, ACS participated in
a "Breakfast Club" event. Morano
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discussed shooting and directing the feature
Meadowland, and Varese was joined by his
wife, director Patricia Riggen, for a conversation about their collaboration on the
feature The 33 (AC Dec. '15). Seale
screened select scenes from his films and
went into detail about the production of
Mad Max: Fury Road (AC June '15). All
three events were moderated by AC
contributor David E. Williams.
Levy Teaches Maine Master Class
Peter Levy, ASC recently instructed
the "Director of Photography Master Class"
as part of the Maine Media Workshops and
College's 12-week Cinematography Intensive program. The master class, which
constitutes a one-week portion of the cinematography curriculum, was attended by
students from all over the world.
Brown Receives Lifetime Award
Associate member Garrett Brown
recently received the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award at the Television
Academy's 67th Engineering Emmy
Awards, which were held at the Loews
Hollywood Hotel. Also in attendance were
ASC members Curtis Clark, Richard Crudo,
Dean Cundey and Haskell Wexler.
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Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.
67th Engineering Emmy Awards photo by AP Invision.

From left: Michael Barrett, ASC; James Neihouse, ASC; Society members Curtis Clark and Richard Crudo with associate members
Garrett Brown and Mark Bender.

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