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The 61st Annual ICG Publicists Awards luncheon revels in fun and funny before an audience of PR professionals who went above and beyond to respond to 2023’s challenges. by Pauline Rogers / Photos by Trae Patton and Evans Vestal Ward   The 61st Annual ICG Publicists Awards hit both fresh and fun notes this year as more than 600 attendees streamed into the event’s “fresh” alternate venue – The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, while the “fun” came in the form of […]

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A new feature version of the Broadway hit (and, before that, Hollywood box office smash) recently debuted on screens: head back to high school with Mean Girls (the musical). by Pauline Rogers / Photos by JoJo Whilden/Paramount Pictures   Let’s face it: high school is war, and no one comes out unscathed. In 2004, film audiences were introduced to the Mark Waters-directed Hollywood smash hit Mean Girls, co-written by Tina Fey and based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and […]

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Local 600 camera teams head up to Park City with stories of reconciliation, remembrance, and renewal to unpack. by David Geffner / Photos Courtesy of Sundance Institute Unless Otherwise Noted   It’s been a tough few years for the U.S. film and television industry, under siege from everything from a global pandemic to gun-safety violations on set that brought horrific consequences, to work stoppages and more. So it’s not surprising that many of the stories at Sundance 2024, the 40th […]

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Director of Photography Jay Hunter, and his Guild camera team, shoot a “comedy with everything on it,” for a sequel to the whacky 1990’s feature, Good Burger by Pauline Rogers / Photos by Vanessa Clifton/Nickelodeon/Paramount+   “I’ve never shot a sequel for a beloved film before, and we took that task very seriously,” relates Guild Director of Photography Jay Hunter about Good Burger 2. The film is a follow-up to the insanely wacky 1997 feature, based on a Nickelodeon comedy […]

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Pete Kozachik, ASC, was that rare filmmaker whose creativity and technical knowledge matched a drive for innovative storytelling. by Jimmy Matlosz / Photos Courtesy of Katy Kozachik/Anthony Scott   I met  Pete Kozachik, ASC, (a 30-year member of this Guild) when he hired me as an AC for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. To say I was lucky to work on a film with such artistry and staying power, under such a gifted gentleman (and me only three years […]

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Director: Ludovic Bernard, Louis Leterrier, Hugo Gélin, Xavier Gens, Daniel Grou, Marcela Said
Cinematographer: Christophe Nuyens, Maxime Cointe, Nicolas Massart, Martial Schmeltz
Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

Director: Charlotte Wells
Cinematographer: Gregory Oke
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she d...

Director: Hal Hartley
Cinematographer: Sarah Cawley
A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is informatio...

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematographer: Michal Dymek
Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.

Director: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
Cinematographer: Frank Passingham
A father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Director: Chris Williams
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters - and make history to boot.

Director: Colm Bairéad
Cinematographer: Kate McCullough
In rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.

Director: Oliver Hermanus
Cinematographer: Jamie Ramsay
In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.

Director: Rian Johnson
Cinematographer: Steve Yedlin
Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.

Director: Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado
Cinematographer: Chris Stover
When Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll and he has burned through eight of his nine lives, he launches an epic journey to restore them by finding the mythical Last Wish.

Director: Domee Shi
Cinematographer: Mahyar Abousaeedi, Jonathan Pytko
A thirteen-year-old girl named Mei Lee is torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the changes of adolescence. And as if the challenges were not enough, whenever she gets overly excited she transforms into a giant re...

Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

Director: Todd Field
Cinematographer: Florian Hoffmeister
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.

Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.

Director: José Padilha
Cinematographer: Lula Carvalho
1997, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his occupation while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope comes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Director: Michael Haneke
Cinematographer: Jürgen Jürges
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

Director: Bradley Cooper
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

Director: Marc Raymond Wilkins
Cinematographer: A. Burak Turan
A murder, a police raid and a photo of a mysterious girl; a young mother must piece together her twin son's secret romantic life, in order to find out what happened to them.

Director: Lukas Dhont
Cinematographer: Frank van den Eeden
The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Cinematographer: Edward Lachman
After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.

Director: Sean Durkin
Cinematographer: Mátyás Erdély
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.

Director: Justine Triet
Cinematographer: Simon Beaufils
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.

Director: Wim Wenders
Cinematographer: Franz Lustig
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.

Director: Todd Haynes
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

Director: Damien Chazelle
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

Director: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane
When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn't commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona -- a mischievous teen who happens to be a shapeshifting creature he's sworn to destroy.

Director: Gareth Edwards
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser, Oren Soffer
Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Director: Greta Gerwig
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence.

Director: Cord Jefferson
Cinematographer: Cristina Dunlap
A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.

Director: Edward Berger
Cinematographer: James Friend
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.

Director: Celine Song
Cinematographer: Shabier Kirchner
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

Director: Alexander Popov
Cinematographer: Alexander Popov

Director: Matteo Garrone
Cinematographer: Paolo Carnera
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.

Director: Guy Nattiv
Cinematographer: Jasper Wolf
Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.

Director: James Mangold
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.

Director: John Hoffman
Cinematographer: James Glennon
An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.

Director: Gary Halvorson, Kevin Bright, Michael Lembeck, James Burrows, Gail Mancuso, Peter Bonerz, David Schwimmer, Ben Weiss, Robby Benson, Shelley Jensen, Terry Hughes, Dana De Vally Piazza, Sheldon Epps, Pamela Fryman, Alan Myerson, Thomas Schlamme, Steve Zuckerman, Roger Christiansen, Arlene Sanford, Ellen Gittelsohn, Paul Lazarus, Mary Kay Place, Sam Simon, David Steinberg, Todd Holland, Joe Regalbuto, Andrew Tsao, Stephen Prime
Cinematographer: Mikel Neiers, Nick McLean, Richard Hissong, Ken Lamkin, Reid Haessig
Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan.

Director: Dee Rees
Cinematographer: Bradford Young
A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school, and within wears the line between her personas thin with explosive consequences.

Director: Edwin Avaness, Emy Hovanesyan
Cinematographer: Edwin Avaness
The year is 1991. The Soviet Union has collapsed and Armenia is at the threshold of her independence. It has been ten years since twenty-three-year-old Eve left her homeland and emigrated ...

Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

Director: Spike Lee
Cinematographer: Ernest R. Dickerson
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Director: Craig Gillespie
Cinematographer: Nicolas Karakatsanis
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

Director: Jane Campion
Cinematographer: Ari Wegner
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.

Director: Matthew Heineman
Cinematographer: Tony Hardmon, Matthew Heineman, Clair Popkin, Thorsten Thielow
In this deeply intimate documentary, musician Jon Batiste attempts to compose a symphony as his wife, writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment.

Director: Raja Gosnell
Cinematographer: Julio Macat
Alex Pruitt, a young boy of nine living in Chicago, fends off thieves who seek a top-secret chip in his toy car to support a North Korean terrorist organization's next deed.

Director: Misan Harriman
Cinematographer: Si Bell
In this intense short film, a grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.