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During its last meeting before the summer, the Board of Directors of the AFC decided to admit Director of Photography Sébastien Buchmann to the ranks of its active members. Having begun his career in the mid 90s, he has since frequented the likes of Céline Bozon, Nathalie Durand, and Eric Gautier, amongst others, and has had a parallel career as a cameraman on short, medium, and feature-length films. We bid him a warm welcome.

After working on the film Les Petits mouchoirs, ACS France has rejoined much of the same team around Christophe Offentsein who just finished making his first film, En solitaire. He made the film with the duo Canet-Cluzet, photographed by Guillaume Schiffman, AFC, all on a boat for the race Vendée Globe in Lorient Bay and the Canary islands.

Following our General Assembly’s meeting on 29 March 2014, a Board Meeting was held on 6 May in order to elect the administrators of the association : Matthieu Poirot-Delpech, AFC,Rémy Chevrin, AFC, and Nathalie Durand, AFC, have been elected or re-elected to the Presidency of the Association.

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)

2022 est une année particulière pour Camerimage, car marquée par la tenue de la 30^e édition du festival. C’est l’occasion pour son fondateur et directeur, Marek Żydowicz, et pour ses invités, de se remémorer la naissance du festival. Il raconte que son idée initiale de fonder un festival de cinéma est née d’une analyse particulièrement passionnée menée avec ses étudiants de l’époque du film Au nom de la rose de Jean-Jacques Annaud. Lucasz Bielan quant à lui, qui reçoit ce soir la gratification "d’ami du festival", détaille avec beaucoup d’humour l’invitation de Sven Nykvist à la toute première édition de Camerimage.

Dutch cinematographer and director Claire Pijman’s touching and original documentary paints a portrait of cinematographer Robby Müller, NSC, the legendary partner of Wim Wender, Jim Jarmush, and Lars von Trier. The film was constructed from personal archival footage provided to the director by Robby Müller himself during the last years of his life. Because he was unable to express himself as a result of his illness, his testament to us is given via this filmed diary, shot with a Super 8. Many filmmakers share their memories of Müller during the film.

After working on the film Les Petits mouchoirs, ACS France has rejoined much of the same team around Christophe Offentsein who just finished making his first film, En solitaire. He made the film with the duo Canet-Cluzet, photographed by Guillaume Schiffman, AFC, all on a boat for the race Vendée Globe in Lorient Bay and the Canary islands.

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.