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In the latest news from ACS France, the release in theatres of Nous finirons ensemble, by Guillaume Canet and photographed by Christophe Offenstein, shot with our Russian Arm on a boat. This month, we are talking aerial coordination, with all types of aircrafts, used on big budget films and films shot by AFC members.

Gilles Porte, AFC, is currently filming Lady Nazca in Peru, a film directed by Damien Dorsaz. As in 2014 on 3000 Nights, by Mai Nasri, and 2015 on Dans les forêts de Sibérie, by Safy Nebbou, Gilles once again offers us two images per day, taken by him (unless otherwise stated) along with his commentary. A sort of diary of things seen or felt, moments captured on the camera or smartphone.
Here is the diary of the sixth and final week.

An encounter with Jacques Delacoux, one of the AFC’s associate members who has remained as genuine and likeable as the first day his company, Transvideo, became an associate member of our association. An indefatigable globetrotter, he attends international trade fairs, workshops, festivals, and master classes all over the world. He opened the doors of his company in Verneuil-sur-Avre to us, in order to tell us about the company’s beginnings, the equipment it manufactures, his perspective on his profession, his encounters, his choices, and to sum it up, just what cinema means to him.

During its last meeting, the board of the AFC decided both to admit Director of Photography Axel Cosnefroy as an active member and to admit the MovieTech and Sigma France corporations as Associate Members.

An adaptation of the real-life event of August 2015 in which three young American tourists prevented carnage on board a Thalys train, The 15:17 to Paris is a strange cinematographic mix of fiction and reality. The movie stars the three heroes themselves, and the film transitions from an adaptation of a drama (about the three boys’ childhoods) to a sort of documentary-fiction style in which each element seems to have been drawn straight from reality, down to the integration of archival footage for the epilogue in the Elysée Palace. Tom Stern, AFC, ASC, the Californian director’s loyal cinematographer, explains the cinematographic issues facing this extra-ordinary film. (FR)

Cette année, lors des salons IBC à Amsterdam et CINEC à Munich, Transvideo dévoilera sa toute nouvelle gamme de moniteurs, RainbowHD.
 Ces nouveaux moniteurs de tournage, plus légers et plus compacts, gardent la même qualité d’image et la même fiabilité qui a fait des produits Transvideo la référence en matière de moniteurs " On Board " pour les utilisateurs les plus exigeants.

During one of its last meetings, the AFC’s Board of Directors decided to offer Franck Montagné, post-production director, consultant and trainer, membership in the AFC as a consulting member. Franck willingly accepted our offer and we are very happy to extend a warm welcome to him. Philippe Ros, AFC, has written the customary introduction.

After their first film, Syngué Sabour, in 2012, Atiq Rahimi called on Thierry Arbogast a second time to film the adaptation of the eponymous novel by Scholastique Mukasonga. This story, somewhere between a Bildungsroman and a bloody tragedy, takes place in Rwanda in the 1970s against a background of sundrenched hills, rainy dawns, and dreamy forests, and is set in a Catholic boarding school far outside of the city whose pupils are upper-class young ladies.

During one of its last meeting, the Board of Directors of the AFC decided to induct director of photography Kika Noëlie Ungaro, AIC, as the newest active member of our association. Michel Abramowicz, one of her two AFC sponsors, introduces her below. We all wish to Kika the warmest welcome.

The IMAGO Board : President Andreas Fischer-Hansen, DFF, Vice-president Tony Costa, AIP, and General Secretary Paul-René Roestad, FNF, had their yearly board meeting in Paris, hosted by AFC in rue Francoeur.

Following the Ordinary General Assembly of the AFC, which took place in the Salle Demy of La Fémis, Saturday the 19th of March 2023, during which its Board was renewed, the Bureau was also renewed on the 3rd of April. Claire Mathon has been re-elected as Co-President of the AFC, that she shares this year with Jean-Marie Dreujou.

Guillermo Grassi, de Ruby Light, a confié à K 5600 Lighting la commercialisation exclusive des Boa Flex 60, 120 et 240 cm ainsi que la déjà très attendue Raie Manta. Ce nouvel accord s’étend à la quasi-totalité des territoires.

In his latest film Bertrand Bonello juggles genres and eras between ethnological documentary, historical recreation and fiction. On the one side it depicts female teenage life at a boarding school and on the other a history of Voodoo practices and slavery in Haïti. Yves Cape, AFC, SBC, lensed this unusual film in competition at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs (Directors Fortnight). (FR)

In March 2023, a strike is in full swing in France, disrupting transport and complicating journeys. Claire Mathon, who lives in Paris, must travel every day to the Bry-sur-Marne studios in the distant suburbs, where she is shooting Pablo Agüero’s film Saint-Ex. She has therefore asked the production company – and this will be her only luxury – for a driver to get her there. During this hour-long journey, she sees the sun rise and, for the first time in her life, enjoys the traffic jams that allow her to delay a little the moment when, every day for 47 days, she will enter the famous 1,000m2 studio B5, from which she will not leave until nightfall.

Lors d’une assemblée générale extraordinaire qui s’est tenue en visioconférence samedi 4 septembre 2021, Imago (Fédération internationale des associations de directeurs de la photographie) a procédé à l’élection de sa présidence et au renouvellement de son "Board" (conseil d’administration). Elen Lotman, ESC, et Ron Johanson, ACS, ont été élus coprésidente et coprésident d’Imago.

Following its Ordinary General Assembly, held on Saturday March 22, 2025 at La Fémis - during which the AFC statutorily renewed its Board of Directors - the Board met on Tuesday April 29 to elect the association’s new Executive Committee. Jean-Marie Dreujou, AFC, ASC, was re-elected for a further term as President of the AFC.

Depuis vingt ans, la réalisatrice belge Vero Cratzborn et le directeur de la photographie Matthieu Bastid font des courts métrages ensemble. Mais pour le premier long métrage de la réalisatrice, tourné dans les Hauts-de-France et en Belgique, en coproduction belgo-franco-suisse à majorité belge, Vero Cratzborn a fait appel à Philippe Guilbert, AFC, SBC, habitué des coproductions entre la Belgique et la France, et aux tournages à deux caméras. Matthieu opère la deuxième caméra (LA).

After The Square (Palme d’or 2017) and Snow Therapy (Un Certain Regard 2014), Swedish director Ruben Östlund makes his return to the Croisette with a hilarious bombshell where certain scenes rise to the height of Monty Python’s Himalayas. Triangle of Sadness thrilled audiences during the first weekend of the festival, sparking hilarious laughter in the theater as buckets of vomit spilled onto the screen. Cinematographer Fredrik Wenzel, FSF, teamed up with the Gothenburg director again on this marathon shoot of nearly eighty-five days (interrupted at the very start of the pandemic in March 2020, then resumed in the fall). He tells us of his joy at having been able to film this new film, which is a serious contender for this year’s top prize. (FR)

Petit rappel Pour ceux ou celles d’entre vous qui n’aurait pu assister au lancement de notre nouvelle pellicule Kodak Vision2 50 D Light 5201/7201. Nous vous rappelons que vous pouvez vous rapprocher de votre interlocuteur habituel pour obtenir plus d’informations concernant ce nouveau produit. Valérie Lacoste : publicité et clip, 01 40 01 47 43 Thomas Averland : programmes TV, 01 40 01 43 14 David Seguin : longs métrages, 01 40 01 42 79 Nathalie Cikalovski : courts métrages et écoles, 01 40 01 30 28 Nicolas Bérard : directeur (…)

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For quite some time, Angénieux has been thinking of doing a book to trace the incredible rise of the Angénieux brand, since the creation of the company in 1935. The dream has actually come true and the 270-page book with a French and an English edition will be previewed at NAB2019 before its international release in bookstores.

Faisant équipe depuis 2015 avec Woody Allen, Vittorio Storaro est actuellement en tournage à Paris. Annoncé comme un retour au thriller (dans la veine de Crimes et délits ou Match Point, les deux perles noires de sa longue filmographie, ce film est annoncé comme l’ultime réalisation du cinéaste New Yorkais. Vittorio Storaro, AIC, ASC, revient avec nous sur sa carrière mythique, sur sa définition du rôle d’"Auteur de la cinématographie" (et non pas de directeur de la photographie) ainsi que sur les "Muses of Light", sa série exclusive de projecteurs LED développés avec De Sisti et baptisés des noms des neuf filles de Zeus. Une gamme distribuée en France par Dimatec et Stéphane Samama, avec qui nous l’avons rencontré. (FR)

Opening Un Certain Regard competition, Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s new film is about grief and lies. The young Icelandic actress and singer Elin Hall plays an ambiguous character, torn between the pain of losing her man and the impossibility of revealing him to others... Swedish cinematographer Sophia Olsson shot the film, which is almost entirely shot in Iceland’s capital, and whose iconic locations will undoubtedly evoke memories for lovers of this timeless city. (FR)

After their first success with a film whose meticulous recreation of a 17th-century community caused a sensation (The Witch, 2015), the duo composed of Robert Egger (director) and Jarin Blaschke (cinematographer) has taken on another, even more concentrated historical fantasy project. Namely, the meeting between two men (Robert Pattinson and Wilhelm Dafoe) alone on an island where they are the caretakers of a lighthouse in the early 19th century. The film was shot in Nova Scotia and has very dense visuals evocative both of silent film and period fantastic engravings. The film was presented in the Directors’ Debuts competition at Camerimage 2019.

Canon annonce la disponibilité d’un nouveau plugin pour l’exploitation des fichiers cinéma RAW Light dans l’application Final Cut Pro X.

Pierre Lhomme’s career has traversed nearly fifty years of French cinema, displaying the same ease and rigorousness with directors such as Alain Cavalier, Chris Marker, Jean Eustache, James Ivory, Joris Ivens, René Féret, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Margurite Duras, Patrice Chéreau, Robert Bresson, Bruno Nuytten, and others. These richly-diverse collaborations were all nourished by an attentive and uninterrupted observation of natural lighting in all of its forms : “I train my eye everywhere, in the street, in the cinema. I am very curious about gazes, ambiences, climates. Reality is a prodigious source of inspiration.” (P.L.)

The Revenant n’est pas seulement l’un des films les plus attendus de 2016, il est aussi hautement susceptible d’emporter un nombre important de prix en cette saison de récompenses : il a obtenu, entre autres nominations, celle de la meilleure photographie. Le travail du directeur photo mexicain Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki, AMC, ASC – qui a travaillé avec les toutes dernières caméras grand format, dans un froid horrible et en utilisant uniquement la lumière naturelle – a été salué par la critique comme "expérience cinématographique ultime".

Deux ans après avoir été dévoilées officiellement au grand public, les Muses of Light de Storaro et De Sisti ont fait leur apparition sur les plateaux de tournage.

Guillermo Grassi, de Ruby Light, a confié à K 5600 Lighting la commercialisation exclusive des Boa Flex 60, 120 et 240 cm ainsi que la déjà très attendue Raie Manta. Ce nouvel accord s’étend à la quasi-totalité des territoires.

Viva Indian Cinematography. That’s the title chosen by ISC, (Indian Society of Cinematographers) to happily announce on their Facebook page that AFC, the French Society of Cinematographers, have invited India as the Guest Country at the Micro Salon happening in Paris on 27th January 2017, with official invitations sent to ISC, WICA (Western Indian Society of Cinematographers) & SICA (Southern Indian Cinematographers Association) .

C’est par ce titre que l’ISC, Indian Society of Cinematographers, annonçait joyeusement sur sa page Facebook que l’Inde avait été choisie cette année comme pays invité par l’AFC au Micro Salon, dans le cadre de la Carte blanche, et que des invitations officielles avaient été adressées aux trois organisations professionnelles indiennes représentatives de l’image de film (ISC, WICA et SICA), qu’un film de 45 minutes, réalisé spécialement pour cet évènement serait projeté et suivi d’une discussion avec des membres de l’AFC.

Ruby Light lance le concours photo #rubylightchallenge sur Instagram, jusqu’au 29 juillet 2022. Il s’agit de publier vos plus belles photos de tournage avec un Boa !

Des nouveautés chez Ruby Light : une version 2 du Boa, dotée, entre autres, de nouvelles LED, de nouveaux tissus, d’une nouvelle confection et d’un nouveau câble, et un Dimmer Pro DMX, disponibles, dès maintenant chez ACC&LED.

K 5600 Lighting présente cette année sur son stand à Camerimage le dernier né de sa gamme de moyennes sources, le Joker², d’une part, et les éclairages LED Boa de Ruby Light, d’autre part.