Nominations Open for 2007 ACS International Award for Cinematography

Members are advised that nominations are now open for the ACS International Award for Cinematography. Nominations can only be made by members logging into the website and using the official nomination form. This award was first presented last year, and is given for excellence in cinematography and is open to ANY feature film cinematographer working on the international stage.

Ross Wood Award Applications Open

Applications are now open for the Ross Wood Snr Memorial Trust Award, to be awarded at the 2007 National Awards. The award may be made annually (at the National Awards) to a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society who has made, or intends to make, a contribution to cinematography and/or develop their career in the areas of research, education, experimentation, or technical, scientific, or aesthetic innovation, or for any worthwhile cause for the advancement of cinematography in Australia.

2007 ACS National Awards for Cinematography

Adelaide is the location for this years 2007 National Awards for Cinematography on Saturday 5 May...

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The shadowcatchers

Do you have a great production still featuring an Australian cinematographer at work? If so, the ACS would like to consider it for inclusion in our 50th Anniversary publication, The Shadowcatchers, an elegant coffee table book documenting the work of Australian Cinematographers from early days to the present.

We are looking for stills of cinematographers working on commercials, documentaries, television, features, shorts, animation and scientific and other specialised work. They should be great photos, with artistic merit, and plenty of mood or action. Other photographs, which may not make it into the book, would also be gladly received as a record of you and your work in Australian production and kept on the ACS Reference Data Base.

So that the book can really reflect the full range of work, we need you to dig out those photos by the end of April -- or better yet, RIGHT NOW -- and send us a copy. Don’t send any originals yet, just a jpeg (preferably) or a photocopy with – as best you can -- the following information:
• name and year of the production
• name of the cinematographer and others in the photo
• name of the person who took the still
• name and contact details (if you have them) of the copyright holder of the still - all copyright will need to be cleared

At this point, the project is unfunded and the only reward for selection will be unimmortalized in a beautifully-designed, inclusive and enduring record of our industry. All stills photographers will be credited where possible and the high quality of the photos will be matched by the thoughtfulness of the accompanying text. This will be written by film historian Martha Ansara, with support from the ACS Book Committee.

Send material to:

ACS 50th Anniversary Book c/- Martha Ansara Film Australia PO Box 46, Lindfield NSW 2070 Australia +612 9573 1886 shadowcatchers@cinematographer.org.au

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