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PS Production Services Honours Sari Friedland with Dales Industry Builder Award
Credit: Courtesy of the ASC
Independent producer Sari Friedland in February received the 2016 Douglas James Dales Industry Builder Award. Named for the late Doug Dales, founder of PS Production Services, the annual award is presented to a producer whose sustained, voluntary, selfless service, contribution and commitment has benefited the Canadian film and television production industry. The award was presented at the PS Dinner on the Hill, held in conjunction with the Canadian Media Production Association’s Prime Time Conference in Ottawa. Friedland’s career has spanned three decades, and she most recently served as supervising producer on the Afghanistan War drama Hyena Road, directed by Paul Gross and shot by Karim Hussain csc.
Pierre Gill csc Wins ASC Award
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he Society congratulates Pierre Gill csc, who took home the award for his work in Casanova (Amazon) in the Television Movie, Miniseries, or Pilot category at the 30th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards for Outstanding Achievement, held on February 14 in Los Angeles.
CSC Members Honoured with CSA Awards The CSC congratulates the following members for their 2016 Canadian Screen Award wins: • Achievement in Cinematography: Yves Bélanger csc (Brooklyn) • Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Factual Series: Norm Li csc (Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI) • Best Photography in a Comedy Program or Series: Gerald Packer csc (Schitt’s Creek – Honeymoon) • Best Photography in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series: D. Gregor Hagey csc (Sunnyside - Top Hat) • Best Direction in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series: Phil Earnshaw csc (Degrassi - Finally, Part 2) • Best Sports Feature Segment: Devon Burns (The Butterfly Child)
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Douglas Slocombe bsc, asc Dead at 103 The film world lost another cinematography giant this year with the death of Douglas Slocombe bsc, asc in February. The British-born Slocombe had a career that spanned five decades and was best known for his work on Steven Spielberg’s first Indiana Jones trilogy in the 1980s. His other credits include The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Young Ones, The L-Shaped Room, The Italian Job, The Servant, Julia, The Great Gatsby, Travels with My Aunt, and Nijinsky. Slocombe started out as a photojournalist for Life magazine and ParisMatch and then became a newsreel cameraman, shooting parts of the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. During his career he garnered three Academy Award nominations and won three BAFTA Awards. A founder member of the British Society of Cinematographers, which was formed in 1949, he was awarded the BSC Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. Slocombe died February 22 in his birthplace of London at the age of 103 after complications from a recent fall.
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