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WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE
Paddington franchise. Simon Tindall has begun on Sherwood S2. Ollie Downey BSC is prepping two episodes of Apple TV+/AMC’s Wool Laurens De Geyter SBC is shooting Couple Next Door, directed by Dries Vos David Rom is shooting the opening block of Amazon’s The Devil’s Hour S2. Álvaro Gutiérrez has wrapped on the opening block of Extraordinary S2 Si Bell BSC has wrapped on The Woman In The Wall for Motive Pictures/BBC with director Harry Wootliff. Sam Chiplin is shooting commercials. Charlotte Bruus Christensen DFF ASC is grading Retreat, shot for FX with director Brit Marling. James Friend BSC ASC is one of two DPs on Star Wars franchise The Acolyte for Lucasfilm.
Anton Mertens SBC is prepping on Kidnapped, a BBC Three series with Al Mackay directing. Milos Moore is lighting the second block of Disney+’s A Thousand Blows with director Ashley Walters. Neus Ollé AEC, BSC is lighting Disney+ series Las Largas Sombras in Spain with director Clara Roquet. David Raedeker BSC is lighting Say Nothing, a new series for FX with lead director Michael Lennox Niels Reedtz Johansen is prepping with director Hayley Easton Street on her next feature The Climb shooting this summer. Anna Valdez Hanks, Kate Reid BSC and Juan Sarmiento G. are reading and meeting. Ed Rutherford is shooting The Serpent Queen S2 in France with director Stacie Passon. Ben Wheeler BSC has wrapped on This Town for Kudos/BBC and is prepping the final block of The Tourist S2 with director Kate Dolan. Barry Ackroyd BSC recently shot a Clearscore commercial with directors Si & Ad. Alex Barber shot a Schweppes spot with director Irene Baque in Cape Town for Darling Films and a Eurovision spot with Chris Balmond via Outsider. John Barr worked with director Helen Downing on a Morrisons ad for Prodigious. Alfie Biddle is shooting block two of Trigger Point 2, with director Audrey Cooke in London. Simon Chaudoir shot a BT spot in Bulgaria with directors The Sacred Egg at Riff Raff. Sara Deane is shooting TV series All Creatures Great And Small for director Andy Hay in Yorkshire. Nick Gillespie has wrapped on block one of Trigger Point 2 for director Jon East. Florian Hoffmeister BSC has concluded on Night Country in Iceland for director Issa López. Alwin Kuchler BSC is shooting The Palace with director Stephen Frears. Tim Maurice Jones lit a KFC job in London with Traktor via Stink. Alex Melman shot a Marmite TVC with director James Rouse through Biscuit. Matias Penachino lensed a Toyota commercial with director Marcus Hansen in Madrid via Agosto. Jake Polonsky BSC shot a Papaya ad for director Rob Leggatt in Warsaw through Knucklehead, London, and is now lighting the TV series Surface 2 in London with director Ed Lilly. Simon Richards shot for M&S with director Gus Filgate via Bite, and a Now TV job with director Juliet May through Merman. Miles Ridgway has wrapped on the feature Daddy’s Head for director Ben Barfoot. Bet Rourich framed a Viator job with director Kinopravda at Imposter. Chris Sabogal lit an Amazon ad in Prague with director Mike Maguire via Outsider. Daniel Vilar is shooting the TV series Welcome To Derry in Toronto.
CASAROTTO RAMSAY & ASSOCIATES: Femi Awojide is shooting The Odds with director Kewa Oni in Nigeria. Greg Duffield is working on Apple TV+’s Trying S4. Matt Gray BSC has commenced on ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office with director James Strong. David Katznelson DFF BSC has wrapped on The Tattooist Of
Auschwitz with director Tali Shelom-Ezer. David Pimm has concluded on Hulu’s We Were The Lucky Ones with director Amit Gupta.
SARA PUTT ASSOCIATES: Emily Almond Barr has graded for The Lovers, which shot last year and will TX on Sky. Giulio Biccari is prepping on Rebus in Scotland for Eleventh Hour films. Jan Jonaeus is shooting in The Balearic’s on The Mallorca Files S3. Aga Szeliga ACO has been operating dailies. Al Rae ACO is on location across the UK on Stephen Frears’ The Palace, starring Kate Winslet. Andrei Austin ACO SOC is A-cam/ Steadicam on Joan
Andrew Bainbridge ACO has started in Horseface for Big Talk/Apple TV. Chris Maxwell Assoc ACO is operating B-cam/Steadicam and Trinity on six episodes of BBC One’s Nightsleeper Dan Evans Associate ACO is a new signing at the agency. Danny Bishop ACO continues on LucasFilms’ The Acolyte, and recently won the SOC Camera Operator Award for his work on All Quiet On The Western Front. Ed Clark ACO has wrapped on Curveball and is prepping on Your Christmas Of Mine 2 George Amos is in Turkey working on Guy Ritchie’s Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare Ilana Garrard ACO is in Italy on Netflix’s The Decameron, lit by DP Michael McDonough BSC ASC and directed by Mike Uppendahl James Frater ACO SOC is as A-cam/Steadicam on The Gorge for Skydance/ Apple TV+. James Leigh ACO has wrapped on The Lazarus Project for Urban Myth Films. Julian Morson ACO operated dailies on Wicked and has started prep on Heads Of State Rick Woollard ACO was in Chamonix for Louis Vuitton, worked with DP Steve Annis on a Giff Gaff ad for with Blink and an Audi spot for Biscuit Filmworks. He also found some time to teach Steadicam at Optical support. Tanya Marar ACO is also in Italy working on The Decameron Tom Walden ACO was in Slovakia on The Tattooist Of Auschwitz, the eight-part Sky drama is based on the book by the same name. Vince McGahon ACO continues on the new series of Apple TV/See Saw films’ Slow Horses Will Lyte ACO is operating on Mary And George, starring Julianne Moore. Zoe Goodwin-Stuart ACO continues as B-camera on The Acolyte for LucasFilms.
VISION ARTISTS:
Benedict Spence is in Hungary shooting new Netflix series Eric with Benedict Cumberbatch, produced by Sister Pictures, directed by Ben’s long term collaborator Lucy Forbes. Jaime Feliu-Torres is prepping tests for BFI feature film Free, directed by David Alexander. Anna MacDonald shot dramatic reconstructions for the feature-doc Stranded In Space about the Apollo 13 mission, directed by Pete Middleton, produced through Insight TWI Films, and then travelled to Budapest for a BFI Documentary Society project with Noémi Varga, exploring the disappearance of Varga’s grandfather during WWII. Jonas Mortensen has graded the TV special of Merman’s There She Goes, starring David Tennant and directed by Toby Trackman, and has been shooting second unit for Elliot Hegarty on the TV series Rivals for Disney+. Luciana Riso continues on an NDA Netflix feature in Colombia. Nick Morris is with long term collaborator Harry Lighton on second unit of Sky/AMC drama Mary And George, starring Julianne Moore. Kia Fern Little has grades The Long F’ Off, an instalment of
C4’s anthology series On The Edge, directed by James Doherty. Kia continues to shoot an NDA’d Apple TV music documentary on a high profile British star. James Blann has been grading Guardian documentary Digital Divide with new directors Right To Roam, which explores the process of digital exclusion. Will Hanke has wrapped on Starstruck S3, produced by Avalon/ BBC, directed by its star, Rose Matafeo. Stephen Dunn is in post production on the BFI, part Warner Bros-funded short Run Outs, directed by Dhillon Shukla. Moritz Moessinger has been working on short film By Any Other Name with Slick Films, directed by Daniel Deville, which follows two sisters and the tragedies of sex trafficking. Courtney Bennett worked with Somesuch on an album film for an NDA’d artist, directed by Renee Osubu. Ryan Eddleston has graded the BBC3 short Birdsong, written/directed by Uncle Shortbread for Hat Trick. Arthur Loveday shot fashion pieces with ITV and Volvo spots for Sky. Eoin McLoughlin was abroad shooting Gucci and Fendi in Italy with Mai Productions and Dobedo, directed by Johnny Dufort. Ian Murray has been lighting tech pieces for Framestore and shooting charity pieces with Greatcoat Films. James Watson worked with VCCP on spots for Tango, with regular collaborator Ben Tonge. Jim Jolliffe lit for Rogue Films and Max Fisher on a piece for The Royal Marines. Lorena Pagès has been lensing fashion pieces for Triumph and Calvin Klein with photographers Larisa Hofmann and Mel Bles. Luke C. Harper continues with director Tom Dream, shooting fashion and travel spots across Europe for Mango. Luke Scott reteamed with advertising partners Hogarth to shoot content for Soap And Glory. Martin Hill continues to shoot food and supermarket ads for Hunky Dory. Rhys Warren has been lighting promos with JM Films and director Will Beach. Spike Morris lenses Nike spots with Jon E Price in celebration of the anniversary of Air Max. Tim Fok has been lighting food ads with VCCP and Foodhall. Tim Green has been shooting car commercials with The Mill.
PRINCESTONE:
Of the agency’s directors of photography… Diego Rodriguez is working on a feature for Astronaut Films about Jamaican women’s soccer team The Reggae Girlz, with director Sharmeen Obaid Shinoy. He is also filming Poised, a feature-length doco about Steven France, ex-MMA champion, directed by Toby Robson for Two Yanks And A Brit UK, and involved in Project Compass, a three-part doc for Empress Films, directed by Marcus Plowright. Of the agency’s camera/Steadicam operators…. Simon Baker ACO is still filming on The Crown S6, with directors Christian Schwochow, Alex Gabassi and Stephen Daldry, and DPs Adriano Goldman ABC BSC ASC and Sophia Olsson for Left Bank Pictures/Netflix, in Majorca, Barcelona, Paris, England and Scotland. Cosmo Campbell ACO is operating on Extraordinary S2, for Sid Gentle Films and Disney+, with DP Alvaro Gutierrez and Toby MacDonald directing, at Three Mills Studios and locations in East London. Michael Carstensen ACO is shooting on House Of The Dragon S2, starring Matt Smith, Graham McTavish and Eve Best. Rob Hart ACO was second unit DP on This Town and filmed additional dailies on Alex Rider S3. Tony Jackson ACO was in Bucharest on 20 th
Television’s mini-series for Hulu, We Were The Lucky Ones, with director Thomas Kail and DPs Tim Ives and David Pimm, starring Joey King, Logan Lerman and Robin Weigert. Tony Kay ACO is filming on a 10-part political drama for Disney+. Nic Milner ACO operated on The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, with director Guy Ritchie and DP Ed Wild BSC, starring Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson and Eiza Gonzalez. Dan Nightingale ACO has finished on Sexy Beast, a Paramount+ prequel TV series, with director Michael Caleo. Peter Robertson Associate BSC ACO has finished on the Mussolini biopic, M. Son Of The Century, at Cinecitta studios in Rome with director Joe Wright and DP Seamus McGarvey BSC ASC. Joe Russell ACO is in Spain filming on Andor S2 with DPs Christophe Nuyens SBC, Mark Patten BSC and Damián Garcia, and directors Ariel Kleiman, Janus Metz and Alonso Ruizpalacios. Sean Savage Associate BSC ACO SOC is filming with the Fire Unit on House Of The Dragon S2 for
This page: (clockwise) – Danny and Aimee Bishop with SOC Award; Fabrizio Sciarra with Tim Burton on Wednesday; DP Robbie Ryan (r) and producer Lee Groombridge; and Adric Watson shooting for Teskey Brothers, directed by W.A.M Bleakley.
HBO, working with directors Alan Taylor and Andrej Pakereh and DP Alejandro Martinez. Fabrizio Sciarra SOC Associate BSC GBCT ACO operated B-camera/ Steadicam dailies with the main unit on Mission: Impossible VII with director Chris McQuarrie and DP Frasier Taggart. Peter Wignall ACO is filming in Turkey on The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guy Ritchie’s World War II feature.

MY MANAGEMENT:
Robbie Ryan ISC BSC filmed the short Woodlice with RSA director/writer Leonn Ward, who, at the age of 16 lost her mother suddenly to cancer. Robbie also lensed for Somesuch director Kim Gehrig on an NDA ad campaign in LA, and has colour graded Poor Things with director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Ben Chads was in Spain shooting second unit for Whisper TV with director Stuart Douglas. Adric Watson shot music videos for Tom Gregory with Ozzie Pullin, lensed the short Sven, directed by Chris Parton, and flew to Sofia for a Visa TVC with Prettybird director Yousef. Nikita Khatsarevich lit ads for Puma with director Natasha Ivanova, IKEA with director Lukasz Zablocki, and Samsung with director Simon Pawlik. Allison Anderson lensed
