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The ASC has announced its new officers
and board of governors following the

group's annual election of officers on Janu¬
ary 12. Re-elected as president was Will¬

Critics award for best cinematography for
his work on Disney's Never Cry Wolf.
He also contributed additional or
second-unit photography to The Unbearable

iam A. Fraker, who will serve an unprec¬
edented sixth term. Victor Kemper, Woody

Lightness of Being, The Bight Stuff, Always,
Indiana Jones and the Temple ofDoom, The

Omens, and Harry Wolf were elected to
serve as vice presidents. Filling out the of¬

Beturn of the Jedi, and The Candidate.
California native Bob Stevens

ficers' ranks for 1993 will be Howard A.

graduated from San Jose State College af¬
in the Air Force, then landed
a job at CBS Studio Center delivering mail.
He then moved into a job as a film loader
for two years, then became a first assistant
cameraman on FamilyAffair, spending four
years as an assistant before moving up to
camera operator. He was camera operator

Anderson, Jr., secretary; Jack Priestley,
treasurer; and Richard Glouner, sergeant-atarms.

Also serving on the ASC board of
governors

will be Stanley Cortez, Allen

Daviau, Linwood Dunn, Richard Kelly, Philip

Lathrop, Leonard South, and newcomers to
the board Haskell Wexler and Vilmos

Zsigmond. Board alternates include Steven
Poster, Richard Edlund, John Bailey, Donald
Birnkrantand Brianne Murphy.
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ily to Honolulu when he
where he entered

a

was a teenager,

national student com¬

petition and won a four-year scholarship to
the school of his choice. Choosing the San
Francisco Art Institute, he majored in
Graphic Design and Illustration.
design firm after graduation before be¬
ing drafted into the Army and serving as
designer/photographer for two years at the
Pentagon.
Narita returned to the Bay Area

and entered the film business first as an ani¬
mator and later as a live-action cameraman
for a local director. He has maintained a

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While working second unit on
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The ASC also voted into its ranks
two new active members, Hiro Narita and
Bob Stevens. Born in Seoul, Korea, and
raised in Japan, Narita moved with his fam¬

at a

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for Laszlo Kovacs, ASC on thirteen films, in¬

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He worked for about two months

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ter four years

on

his

new

television

series, Amazing Stories. Stevens spent two
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director of

photography on the

show, working with such directors as Mar¬
tin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and Joe
Dante. Stevens also completed the pilot and
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worked on the Disney Movie of the Week
Earthstar Voyager.
His feature credits include Deliri¬

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Burbs, Fear, and the yet-to-be-released
Honor Bound, filmed in Yugoslavia.
ous,

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At Showbiz

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Expo East in New

York, January 7-9, Sol Negrin, ASC moder¬
ated a seminar on "Shooting the Extremes:
A Cinematographic Focus on Tabletop and
Wide Screen Lenses." The discussion

on

partnership in the San Francisco film com¬
pany Pictures and Words and devotes most

stocks, lenses, lighting and camera moves

of his time to features. His credits as a di¬
rector of photography include Star Trek VI,

Shore, ASC, Ralph Bode, ASC, Stefan

The Flocketeer, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, No
Man's Land, and Amerika. His cinematog¬

raphy

on the television movie Fareweii to
Manazanarwon him an Emmy nomination,
and he earned a National Society of Film

also featured

cinematographers Richard

Czapsky (batman), and Juergen Schwinzer,
of Arriflex,
among others. Also spending time at the
ASC's booth at the Expo was Andrew
vice president of camera division

Laszlo, ASC.

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