Spring Tech Showcase

Vanja Černjul is a Croatian cinematographer who has worked for most of his career in the US on indie films, episodics, and Hollywood features. His notable credits include, Crazy Rich Asians, The Gilded Age, The Deuce, Macro Polo, Orange is the New Black, Nurse Jackie, and 30 Rock.

Declan Quinn is a directory of photography known for his work on Jersey Boys Live!, Diana, Hamilton, Monsoon Wedding, Leaving Las Vegas, Vanya on 42nd Street, and many more. He also filmed the early music videos of U2. He has worked extensively on features and episodics, live capture, documentaries, and commercials.

Dejan Georgevich is an award-winning Director and Cinematographer working in film and television production. His most recent work includes The Enemy Within, The Family, Blacklist, and Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York.

Dejan has served on many industry-sponsored discussion panels and has been published in leading cinematography publications. He is a professor at the School of Visual Arts and frequent guest lecturer at universities and professional film and photography organizations. He received the 2012 Deluxe Bud Stone Award for outstanding educational contributions to the art and craft of cinematography by the International Cinematographers Guild.

Antonio Riestra started his career as a still photographer in Mexico City, later moving to Durango in the north of Mexico to work with the indigenous Huicholes people. After an epiphany in a frozen lake, he shifted his career from stills to the moving image.

Antonio began his cinema career in Mexico filming the BTS of Puma’s Daughter. After working in film and commercials in Mexico, he moved to Prague to film his first feature, Normal. He also worked as a Director of Photography in LA for features, including Face of Love and The Bachelors.

M. David Mullen, ASC studied filmmaking and cinematography at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he received his Master’s Degree. He was nominated for the IFP Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography in 2000 for Twin Falls Idaho and again in 2004 for Northfork. He won the Dublin Film Critics Circle Award for Best Feature Cinematography in 2017 for The Love Witch.

In 2004, he became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers; in 2007, he joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Projects released theatrically in the past few years include The Love Witch (2016) and 90 Minutes in Heaven (2015). Recent television work includes Get Shorty, the pilot episode of Designated Survivor, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography in both 2019 and 2020.

He also updated the classic textbook Cinematography with original author Kris Malkiewicz, and has written a number of articles about his own work for various filmmaking magazines.

Jay Holben is an independent director and producer in Los Angeles, California. His most recent work is the feature romantic drama Before the Dawn.

A former cinematographer, he is an author of three books on cinematography, including co-authoring The Cine Lens Manual. He is also a contributing technical editor for American Cinematographer Magazine, faculty instructor for Global Cinematography Institute and international lecturer, an Associate member of the ASC, and the chair/co-chair of several of the ASC Motion Imaging Technology Council Committees.

Jaz Lawrence is a NYC-based Caribbean-American Creative Producer and co-founder of Distant Connections. Her background includes special events, digital marketing, and most recently, launching various programs with the non-profit, FREE THE WORK. Her work is informed by her passion for creating empowering experiences that connect people in a positive way, ones that allow others to share stories of their culture and identity. Jaz deeply cares about this because division cripples communities, but connection strengthens them. Growing a foundation of generational wellness starts when people come together with compassion.

Jordan Levie is a cinematographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. His recent efforts include a wide range of highly styled narrative short films, video-art pieces, music videos, and commercial works. His recent credits include Jersey Boys Live!, Come from Away, David Byrne's American Utopia, Springsteen on Broadway, and My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.

Hollis Meminger is a renowned cinematographer with numerous film and television credits such as, The Blacklist (NBC), Narcos (Netflix), and Younger (TVLand). He is also a passionate documentarian, focusing on projects that feature the marginalized community. He is currently working on a sequel to the Academy Award-nominated film, Streetwise. Meminger is a recent graduate and now alumni advisor to the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program. He also founded the Bridgebuilder Cinematic Arts Program, where he teaches filmmaking to high school students in some of the roughest neighborhoods in the country.

Reema Elghossain has dedicated her career to celebrating people, creating lasting relationships, building leaders, and helping people unlock their purpose. Her passion is to encourage, engage, and equip others to believe in the possibilities. Her purpose is to help others live the lives they would if they only knew how.

Originally from Flint, Michigan, Brent Mata is a Cinematographer and Director who splits his home between LA and NY.

With a background in art and music, Brent brings an eclectic approach to creating visuals for partners across many genres. In the past 10 years, he has worked with many of the leading stills production companies to deliver quality images for the growing need of motion content in digital campaigns. He often works with his twin brother, director Brandon Mata.

Brent is the founder of Neer, an artist agency representing a curated list of talented cinematographers, directors and DPs.

Rick Siegel is an EMMY award-winning Director of Photography who has worked in film and television for over 30 years. His multi-camera experience includes feature documentaries, televised music performances, Broadway, fashion and comedy shows.

Recent multi-cam projects include feature films Dick Johnson Is Dead, Becom-ing, and televised projects Myley Cyrus:Stand By You, The Weeknd:False Alarm, Kanye West:Yeezy Season 3, Lewis Black Old Yeller, 50 Years of Walt Disney, Trevor: The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill.

With over 50 credits, Rick Gioia has worked in the camera department for a number of high-profile live event projects including Jersey Boys Live!, Come from Away, David Byrne's American Utopia, Hamilton, Springsteen on Broadway, and My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.

Becky Morrison is the CEO, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of The Light, a production company in Brooklyn’s Industry City that produces high-end, short-form content that is grounded in equity, sustainability and inclusion.

In 2012 she produced the Emmy-nominated open for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, and a short film about Nina Simone, To Be Free, which she produced in 2016, was acquired into the Smithsonian’s permanent collection.

Mike Bauman is the co-founder and owner of Lux Lighting LLC. He has been involved in the lighting industry for almost 30 years and has worked as a gaffer on over 40 feature films. A native of Wisconsin, he moved to Los Angeles to attend the American Film Institute. He co-founded Lux Lighting in 1998 with gaffer Jon Tower and a handful of Kino Flo lights.

Throughout the subsequent years, Mike began to incorporate new technologies into cinema lighting. The need for creating with non-traditional tools led to the founding of LiteGear Inc in 2006, with Al Demayo. Mike continues to develop and incorporate cutting edge technologies into the world of lighting. He is also a member of IATSE Local 728 and Local 600.

A former strategy and technology executive at ARRI, Neil Fanthom launched TRIBE7 and a technology called BLACKWING7 in partnership with cinematographer Bradford Young, ASC in 2018. TRIBE7 is a company interested in all aspects of creative image making, primarily color, light and optics. BLACKWING7 full format cinema prime lenses are hand-built using a proprietary technique, which allows their optical performance to be uniquely configured and tuned to the owner’s wishes and creative style.

Ben Dair’s experience in the media and entertainment technology space makes him ideally placed to drive the product development strategy and vision for Motion Impossible. He has over 25 years previous experience working for renowned industry names such as Quantel, Avid, Autodesk, Harris, Technicolor, Snell Advanced Media, Grass Valley, Ncam Technology, and Vizrt. Over the past few years, Ben has specialized in areas such as TV and film post-production, live broadcast, augmented graphics, and virtual production.

Daniel is the Creative Director at Diamond View, a Tampa-based production company. He leads productions both big and small, with a focus on exciting visuals and dynamic stories. In 2020 Daniel directed Diamond View's first virtual production shoot and instantly fell in love with the creative freedom it unlocked. Now, with dozens of virtual production shoots under his belt Daniel helps other filmmakers and brands leverage Vū's technology for their own stories.

Tim Moore is a three-time Emmy award-winning director and founder of Diamond View, a creative video agency headquartered in Florida. In 2021, Tim co-founded Vū Technologies, a technology provider for the virtual production industry and North America’s fastest growing network of Virtual Studios. He is also the author of "Sold On Purpose," a comprehensive guide to purpose-driven marketing and also the founder of the Tampa Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on inspiring communities through positive public messaging.

Tom Fletcher is an accomplished entrepreneurial executive with over twenty years of award-winning experience in the motion picture and broadcast camera industries. He built a successful business, Fletcher Camera & Lenses, from scratch and is a key player in the Chicago production scene. Most recently, he has served as the Director of Marketing at Fujinon Lenses since 2016.

Paul Healy is focused on the creation and support for Sony Cinema Products and Virtual Production solutions within the entertainment, rental, and end user segment. He identifies and work withs vendors and manufacturers to integrate Sony product into their solutions.

With over two decades of experience in the field of cinema technology and optics, Jean-Marc is currently the Cinema Sales Director at ZEISS. He has been an associate member of the ASC since 2019. 

As Director of Education & Product Specialization, Jeff Lee oversees the company's educational initiatives, as well as spearheading the development and maturation of emerging products and applications. He helps develop new curriculums, whether for in-person workshops, online courses, or custom training. He also manages the training team across all three offices.

>Born and raised in NYC, Jeff attended Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of Arts where he concentrated in both photography and filmmaking.

Geoff Smith joined AbelCine in 2015 as a Camera Technology Specialist with a focus on workflows from capture to post-production. He has a background in technology from web development to content management at companies like VMware, Lucasfilm and Silicon Graphics (SGI). Prior to joining AbelCine, he worked on an independent feature as a DIT and Assistant Editor.

Originally from New York, Geoff graduated from California State University, Chico earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Design with an emphasis in Media Arts.