American Cinematographer - October 2015 - 94

Clubhouse News
Left: Bradford
Young, ASC.
Right: Michael
Goi, ASC, ISC at
ScareLA.

October 2015

Tomlinson Named Associate
New associate member Matthew
Tomlinson currently serves as the director of
imaging science for EFilm. Tomlinson has
worked at EFilm for seven years, and previously held the positions of color corrector
and digital-imaging supervisor for Tippett
Studio in Berkeley. He studied film production and studio arts at Loyola Marymount
University, where he interned with independent filmmakers, Summers/Quaid Productions, Roger Corman and BossFilms.
Goi Joins ScareLA panel
Michael Goi, ASC, ISC recently
participated in an American Horror Story
panel at the third annual ScareLA in
Pasadena, Calif., a convention dedicated to
the celebration of Halloween. Goi and other
AHS creatives discussed the collaboration
between the makeup, visual-effects and
camera crews, who come together to create
a visually unique world for each respective
season of the series. Goi's advice to the audience and aspiring filmmakers was, "Don't be
afraid to make mistakes."
Zielinski Named 2015 AFA
Cinematography Mentor
Jerzy Zielinski, ASC, PSC was
announced as the 2015 Asian Film Academy
cinematography mentor. Along with AFA
Dean Wang Xiaoshuai, Directing Mentor
Anthony Chen and Deputy Dean Oh Seokgeun - director of the Busan Film CommisAmerican Cinematographer

sion - Zielinski will share his broad expertise
with the new AFA fellows selected from 13
countries.
Goodich, Logan, Zsigmond
Teach at CSU Summer
Arts Program
Frederic Goodich, ASC; Vilmos
Zsigmond, ASC, HSC; and Bruce Logan,
ASC were invited by documentary cinematographer and San Francisco State University professor Weimin Zhang to participate in
the instruction of California State University
Monterey Bay's Summer Arts program
"Cinematography: Experience With the
Masters." Twenty-six students from the CSU
system participated in the course, in which
they learned from and worked with the
renowned cinematographers.
Bailey Judges Kodak
Scholarships
John Bailey, ASC recently led a panel
of judges chosen to select the recipients of
the 2015 Kodak Student Scholarship Awards
and the Kodak Student Cinematography
Scholarship Awards. This was Bailey's fourth
consecutive year as a judge. The first-place
Student Cinematography Scholarship Award
was presented to Nicolas Aguilar from California's Chapman University for his cinematography on Run, and an Award of Merit
was presented to Ziryab Ben Brahem from
San Diego State University for Wake. ●

Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.
Photo of Michael Goi by Kelly Brinker.

Society Welcomes Young
New active member Bradford
Young, ASC was born in Louisville, Ky., and
studied filmmaking at Howard University
under renowned Ethiopian émigré Haile
Gerima (Sankofa). He first made his mark in
independent cinema when he won an Excellence in Cinematography Award at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2011 for Pariah (AC
April '11), directed by Dee Rees. At the 2012
Sundance Film Festival, Middle of Nowhere
(AC Nov. '12) - his first film with director
Ava DuVernay - won a Grand Jury Prize.
The following year, Young pulled off an
unprecedented achievement at Sundance -
winning an Excellence in Cinematography
Award for two films: David Lowery's Ain't
Them Bodies Saints (AC Sept. '13) and
Andrew Dosunmu's Mother of George (AC
April '13).
Young's feature credits also include
DuVernay's Selma and J.C. Chandor's A Most
Violent Year (both in AC Feb. '15),
Dosunmu's Restless City, and Tina
Mabry's Mississippi Damned. His latest
picture is Ed Zwick's Pawn Sacrifice. Young
also creates video installations, and his most
recent work in that field was Bynum Cutler,
which explored the mythos behind AfricanAmerican homesteaders. His collaborations
with artist Leslie Hewitt have been exhibited
at the Kitchen, the Studio Museum in
Harlem, the Menil Collection, Des Moines
Art Center, the MCA Chicago and Lofoten
International Arts Festival in Norway.

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