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Clubhouse News
New ASC members Patrick Cady (top) and
Larry Fong (bottom).
Cady, Fong, Maibaum
Join Society
The ASC recently welcomed Patrick
Cady, Larry Fong and Paul Maibaum into its
ranks of active members.
Patrick Cady, ASC grew up near
Buffalo, N.Y., and attended Ithaca College,
where he earned a bachelor’s degree in still
photography and motion-picture production.
After workingas a camera intern for
Roger Deakins, ASC,BSC on Passion Fish,
Cady enrolled in New York University’s graduate
film program.
Upon completing his MFA, Cady
began working as an electricianand
climbed the ranks to gaffer and then cinematographer
on independent productions.
His work on Girlfight won him a mention
on Variety’s “10 Cinematographers to
Watch,” and he then went on to shoot
Sunshine State. Cady shot the first season
of Cold Case, and his credits also include the
series In Treatment, Body of Proof and Suits
and the features The Stepfather (2009) and
The Lottery Ticket.
Larry Fong, ASC was born and
raised in Los Angeles. As a teen, he became
interested in photography and filmmaking,
and he began experimenting with short
films, cel animation and stop-motion
projects. He earned an undergraduate
degree in linguistics from the University of
California-Los Angeles and a film degree
fromArt Center College of Design in
Pasadena.
He launched his career shooting
music videos for such acts as R.E.M., Van
Halen and the Goo Goo Dolls, and then
began shooting commercials, independent
features and television pilots.In 2004, he
shot the pilot for Lost, for which he earned
an ASC Award nomination. He shot several
episodes of the hit series before embarking
on his first studio feature, 300. He has since
shot the features Watchmen, Sucker Punch
and Super 8.
The son of screenwriter and
producer Richard Maibaum, Paul
Maibaum, ASC was born into filmmaking.
While studying theater arts at California
State University-Hayward, he took a course
that set him down the path toward cinematography.
He enrolled inthe University of
Southern California’s School of Cinema and
Television, and upon graduating he found
work at Filmart, a smallproduction
company andcamera-rental facility. While
working at Filmart, hejoined the union as a
loader, and he quickly climbed the ranks to
first assistant.
After operating for such cinematographers
as Woody Omens, ASC and Dean
Semler, ASC, ACS, Maibaum was promoted
to director of photography on the series
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose . His recent credits
include the series My Boys, Samantha Who?
and Sons of Anarchy and the pilot for
Intercept.
HPA Hosts Reference-Monitor
Symposium
The Hollywood Post Alliance recently
hosted a Reference-Monitor Symposium at
the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif.
Theevent was conceived by a blue-ribbon
group of industry professionals, including
ASC members Curtis Clark and Steven
Poster and ASC associates Lou Levinson,
Josh Pines and Jan Yarbrough.
The symposium included a full day of
demonstrations and presentations. Poster
participated in “Myth Busting: Monitoring
On Set”; Pines participated in “Myth Busting:
Digital Cinema”; Levinson and ASC
associates Howard Lukk and Leon Silverman
participated in “ 101 Dalmatians: A
Case Study of Monitoring in ACES”; and
Clark contributed to the panel discussion
“What’s Coming Next?”
“This event has brought together a
group of some of the most insightful professionals
working in our industry today to
address an issue that has not been addressed
in this way before,” said Silverman, president
of the HPA and the general manager of digital
studio for Walt Disney Studios. “As
display technology has changed and
evolved, the need to understand how best to
display and view our content for the various
delivery platforms is an increasing challenge
for industry professionals. This event is a
unique opportunity for our industry to literally
see what we are doing with new eyes.”
Kuras Shares Emerging Visions
Ellen Kuras, ASC was selected to
participate in the recent “Emerging Visions”
program co-presented by The Film Society of
Lincoln Center and the Independent Filmmaker
Project. The one-day event, which
Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.
Fong photo by Françcois Duhamel, SMPSP. Michos photo by Alan Thatcher.
102 January 2012 American Cinematographer