LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Friendship is one of the great gifts a parent can give their child. A new student film called Spaceship shows how powerful it can be.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, SPACESHIP )
CARLIE GUEVARA: (As Maria) You know what I was thinking? We could make this car into a spaceship and sleep under the stars.
CHLOE JO ROUNTREE: (As Alex) Like real astronauts.
GUEVARA: (As Maria) Yeah. What do you think?
ROUNTREE: (As Alex) We need a signal so that the people living in space can see us.
GUEVARA: (As Maria) We do. How about - we re here.
ROUNTREE: (As Alex) We re here.
ASC Re-elects President Stephen Lighthill
“As we safely emerge from the pandemic, we plan to continue to share our expertise on best practices for remote solutions and virtual production in service to the artistic process of filmmaking.”
The Board of Governors of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has voted on the organization’s 2021-’22 officers and Stephen Lighthill has been re-elected president. He will serve his next one-year term alongside Vice Presidents Amy Vincent, Steven Fierberg and John Simmons; Treasurer Steven Poster; Secretary Gregg Heschong; and Sergeant-at-Arms Jim Denault.
Stephen Lighthill, ASC (Photo by Michael M. Pessah, ASC)
Lighthill was elevated to president last year and previously served in the role from 2012-’13. He and the Board have been guiding the Society through the challenging transitions necessitated by the global pandemic, focusing on helping members learn safe practices on set and sharing those findings with the industry at
Richard Vialet Welcomed Into Society Membership
The cinematographer’s credits include the series
P-Valley and
Nobody’s Fool.
New ASC member Richard Vialet studied cinematography at Howard University and the American Film Institute Conservatory. As a director of photography, he has worked on projects around the globe, shooting in locations including Cambodia, Bulgaria and Costa Rica, and is known for his popular feature collaborations with prolific actor-writer-director-producer Tyler Perry.
Richard Vialet, ASC (center) with director Thomas Carter (left) on the set of American Soul.
Vialet and Perry teamed up on the romantic comedy
Nobody’s Fool, psychological thriller
Acrimony and comedy horror
Film Independent
Have you ever had to, y’know,
write something? Ugh it’s the worst! Just sitting there, your eyes slowly being irradiated by the punishing white abyss of the blank page; the metronome of the steadily blinking cursor quietly mocking your own imperfect human heartbeat, rushing ahead now into frenzied palpitations as you struggle for Word One; cursing over and over again the pathetic machinery of the human body these weak arms, these reedy fingers and its utter unsuitability as a tool for transmitting thought into anything approaching a lucid pattern of letters and punctuation? Point is: writing is, like… really, really hard.