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Clubhouse News

Clockwise from top left: Associate members Jill Bogdanowicz,
Marc Dando, Rich Abel and Pete Abel.

Bogdanowicz, Dando, Abels
Named Associates
New associate member Jill
Bogdanowicz is the senior supervising digital colorist at Modern VideoFilm. A native of
Rochester, N.Y., she began her career as an
intern at Eastman Kodak. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art from State University of
New York College at Geneseo. She started
working at Cinesite in 1999 as an assistant,
and she subsequently spent eight years as a
senior digital-intermediate colorist at Technicolor. Bogdanowicz paints, which she says
inspires her work as a colorist.
Associate Marc Dando is a manag98

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ing director at Codex, where he oversees
the company’s worldwide operations.
During his tenure at the company, Codex
has become a leader in digital-camera
recording and workflow technology for film
and television production. He has spurred
the development of a number of products
and forged alliances with other innovators
to support the growth of digital production.
He recently facilitated the integration of the
Codex recording platform into the Arri
Alexa XT camera line.
Associate members Pete and Rich
Abel co-founded AbelCine in 1989. Before
that, each brother had a hand in the film
American Cinematographer

McGarvey, Cooke Optics
Honored by BSC
Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC
received the British Society of Cinematographers’ Best Cinematography Award for his
work on Anna Karenina. BSC President
John De Borman presented McGarvey with
the honor in July in Los Angeles. The two
appeared in a short video that documented
McGarvey’s acceptance. His children, Sam
and Stella, handed him the statuette. “This
award is so cherished and so treasured,”
McGarvey says in the video. “I wanted to
thank everyone at the BSC for selecting me
for this award and deeming me worthy of
it.”
The video played during the BSC
Summer Luncheon, hosted at Pinewood
Studios. During the event, the Society also
honored Cooke Optics, presenting the
company with the BSC Bert Easey Technical
Award. A former head of the camera
department at Denham and Pinewood
Studios, Easey was integral in the formation
of the BSC. The award was collected by
ASC associate Les Zellan, chairman and
owner of Cooke Optics.
For more information, visit
www.bscine.com.
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Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.

industry, with Pete working as a camera
and optical technician, and Rich working as
a camera technician. Since AbelCine’s
founding, Pete has guided strategic and
business development, working with
managers and specialists to determine
which new technologies and services to
bring into the company. He also serves as
AbelCine’s director of marketing. As director of operations, Rich has guided the
development of AbelCine’s service, product-development and research-related
departments since the company’s inception.
He drives the company’s IT and system
strategies, as well as inventory and fulfillment development.
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