It is with great pleasure that we welcome within the AFC, Panasonic Cinema, which many directors of photography have already had the opportunity to know while shooting feature films and television. In the coming weeks their representative in France, Guilhem Krier, will provide a more detailed presentation of the company and its various activities.
We are pleased to welcome Tom in his migration to the AFC. Usually, it’s AFC members who knock on the door of the ASC to become members! Why this attachment to France for a DP who is à la mode because of his work on the films of Clint Eastwood? He started as a gaffer for 18 years with Clint… and DPs Bruce Surtees, Owen Roizman and Jack Green.
I am very honored to sponsor Tom Stern to the AFC. I met him two years ago at Camerimage. I was impressed by his work on Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby. I saw in those films what I found absolutely remarkable in the work of Haskell Wexler, Vilmos Zsigmond or Conrad Hall: the distortion of what could be described as a realistic image.
It was during an evening in Cannes that I had the pleasure and the honor to meet Tom Stern: he was the president of the jury for the Vulcan prize for Technical Artist awarded by the CST, and I was able to spend a few hours talking with him about the business and the responsibilities it engenders.
Bogen Imaging France
What could be more magical, in films, than the self-blocking articulated arm known as... the magic arm?
We are all familiar with it because we use it for setting up our lighting, tripods, joints, stands and other studio accessories developed by Lino Manfrotto.
In 1989, Multistand Co, established two years previously by Thierry Martin, became Manfrotto France. The firm specialised in the distribution of a great variety of brands connected with cinema, video and photography and Bogen Imaging France - the new name (...)
At the last two board meetings, one of which was held in late November (just when the last Newsletter came out) and in mid-December, several new active and associate members were admitted and they have come to join us at the AFC: the directors of photography Laurent Brunet, Claude Garnier, Marc Koninckx and François Lartigue.
Roger and Maurice Fellous, seen through the eyes of Georges Lautner Georges Lautner talks about the time he spent with his " Uncle Operators ", the new honorary members of the AFC. (Editor’s note)
Welcome to our new honorary members, by Jean-Jacques Bouhon Just a few words to say how happy I am to welcome Roger and Maurice Fellous to our ranks. It brings back memories of the early days of my career.
With the arrival in January of Yves Lafaye, Pascal Poucet and Jean-Louis Vialard, there are now eighty active members. At the start of 2005, I would like to pay homage and warmly thank the active members, associate members and founder members of the AFC. They can be proud of their baby.
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