Accepted by the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England, one of the top film schools in the world, he shot Jenny Wilkes’ Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Student Film, “Mother’s Wedding.”

Having settled in England, The Berlin Film Festival honored him in 1987 with a Special Silver Bear ‘for outstanding single achievement’ in cinematography, for Derek Jarman’s “Caravaggio”.

Subsequent work in films like the multi-part ‘Aria’ (1987), as the sole cinematographer with two segments, one of them for legendary director Ken Russell, earned him an invitation into the British Society of Cinematographers in 1990 and, a decade later, was invited into the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers, where he’s actively involved.

In 1991, after shooting ‘K-2′ in the Himalayas, he moved to the U. S. to work in cult classics like ‘Blood In, Blood Out’ and ‘Dolores Clairborne’. Cinematographer credits hence amount to over two dozen motion pictures and a hundred commercials and music videos. His was the look that launched Liv Tyler in her father’s Aerosmith videos, re-energized the filmography of David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner) and Guillermo Del Toro (Blade 2), and broke new ground in films like ‘S.W.A.T.’, ‘The Ring 2′ and ‘Blade Trinity’. His latest film: “There Be Dragons” for film legend Roland Joffe.

On Television, he has shot two powerful pilots: “Hawaii 5-0,” for Len Wiseman, and “Exit Strategy,” with Ethan Hawke, directed by Antoine Fuqua. He is currently engaged to photograph the beautiful ten-part TV mini-series “Magic City” for Starz network.

Gabriel Beristain is member of AMPAS and BAFTA LA., and lives in Los Angeles with his photographer wife Elizabeth and their children, Max (9) and Victoria (6).

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His early work encompassed music promotional films and student films, as well as serving as cinematographer for a pop music show for KHJ-TV and working as a still photographer for the band The Monkees.

He already had three independent feature credits when Steven Spielberg noticed one of his TV movies and hired him to shoot his first mainstream feature: ”E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial”. The experience earned the first of five Oscar nominations for Daviau and launched his career as one of the industry’s leading cinematographers. Other Academy Award nominations followed, for ”The Color Purple”, ”Avalon”, ”Empire Of The Sun” and ”Bugsy”. He won ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards for the latter two films and the British Academy Award for Empire.
His body of narrative film work includes ”The Falcon And The Snowman”, ”Defending Your Life”, ”Fearless”, ”The Astronaut’s Wife” and ”Van Helsing”. Daviau has represented the American Society of Cinematographers and the International Cinematographers Guild on the Artists Rights Foundation and he has made several trips to Washington, D.C., to lobby for both artists’ rights and film preservation issues.

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During that time he shot several award-winning television movies, including ”Second Serve” and ”The Winter of Our Discontent”. Over the course of a distinguished career, Greenberg photographed such films as ”Creator”, ”Sweet Dreams”, ”Far North”, ”The Milagro Beanfield War”, ”Free Willy”, ”Fools Rush In”, and ”Save The Last Dance”. He won ASC and Emmy Awards for his work on ”Winchell”, ”Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”, ”Iron Jawed Angeles”, and ”Warm Springs” all for HBO. He was nominated for another Emmy for the highly regarded biopic ”James Dean: An Invented Life”.

Greenberg most recently completed ”Even Money”, director Mark Rydell’s independent film with Danny Devito, Kim Bassinger, Tim Roth, Ray Liotta, and Forest Whittaker, Tim Allen’s ”Santa Claus 3”, the box office smash, ”Wild Hogs”, and Oscar nominated director, Stephen Frears, first American pilot, ”Skip Tracer”.

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KARL WALTER LINDENLAUB (Director of Photography), a native of Germany, studied at Munich’s Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (Academy of Television and Film), before earning a scholarship to England’s renowned National Film and Television School.

While still in film school in Munich, he first collaborated with filmmaker Roland Emmerich, with whom he co-wrote the 1980 telefilm “Altosax.” Lindenlaub went on to enjoy a long association with Emmerich. He served as the cinematographer on the director’s sci-fi mega hit “Independence Day”; “Stargate”; “Universal Soldier”; “Moon 44,” for which Lindenlaub won a German Camera Award; and “Ghost Chase.” He also lensed “Eye of the Storm,” which Emmerich executive produced.

Lindenlaub has also worked multiple times with such directors as Michael Caton-Jones, on the features “City by the Sea,” “Rob Roy” and “The Jackal”; Wayne Wang, on “Because of Winn-Dixie” and “Maid in Manhattan”; Garry Marshall, on “Georgia Rule” and “The Princess Diaries”; and Jon Avnet, on “Red Corner” and “Up Close & Personal.”
His additional film credits include James McTeigue’s “Ninja Assassin”; “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” for director by Andrew Adamson; Paul Verhoeven’s World War II drama “Black Book”; Bob Dolman’s “The Banger Sisters”; and Jan de Bont’s remake of “The Haunting.”
His latest movie is “Dolphin Tale”, directed by Charles Martin Smith and shot in 3D.

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Building on this experience and personal study it wasn’t long before he became a visual effects cameraman for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures working on a host of low budget exploitation sci fi pictures such as “Escape from New York”. It was during this period that Mark co produced and starred in the independent feature “The Strangeness”.

By the mid 80s Mark became a Clio award winning optical cameraman at CMI working on commercials and 3D features such as Jaws 3 and Friday the 13th part 3. Mark went on to become a stop motion animator for educational projects and a host of MTV rock videos for such bands as Judas Priest. In 1986 Mark was invited by Bill Taylor ASC to become the lead matte cameraman for Illusion Arts.
It was at Illusion Arts that Mark became involved in main stream feature filmmaking and won an Emmy certificate for contributing to the Star Trek television series. During his tenure at Illusion Arts Mark composited over 1000 matte shots on such notable features as Martin Scorsese’s “Cape Fear”,” The Birdcage” and “Star Trek V”.

In the 90s Mark became an effects supervisor at Area 51 helping to put together CGI effects for the landmark television event “From the Earth to the Moon” created by Tom Hanks. After the award winning series Mark became head effects cameraman at Custom Film Effects where he contributed to a slew of projects such as “Gangs of New York”, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, ”Austin Powers, the Spy who Shagged Me” and “Tropic Thunder” among others.

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