This past weekend the ICG 2024 Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA) was held at the Saban Theater Center Wolf Theater in North Hollywood. Now in its 26th year, the event showcased eight short films lensed by 8 of the best and brightest local 600 cinematographers. A distinguished group of exceptional burgeoning talent that makes the ICG standout as one of the only unions that honors emerging talent.
There was also a presentation of the Distinguished Filmmaker Award to the outstanding director of photography Rodrigo Prieto, who’s shot several Martin Scorsese movies and has just recently premiered his debut feature as director at TIFF, Pedro Peramo, which will debut on Netflix on November 6th. Earlier in the weekend M. David Mullen was awarded with the ASC Mentor Award.
The evening was very celebratory and the cinematographers, Adam Carboni, Dylan Trivette, Allen Ho, Matthew Halla, Nick Mahar, Andrew Trost, Dominic Bartolone, and Jessica Hershatter, were all brought on stage and handed awards for their work. They were all given valuable prizes from the event sponsors: Panasonic, Fuji Film, Picture Shop, Lee Filters, Panavision, Light Iron, Band Pro, Hawk Lenses, and Roscoe.
List of Cinematographers and their work:
Adam Carboni, “INCOMPLETE”
Dylan Trivette, “Bearing Witness: A Name & A Voice”
Allen Ho, “Iron Lung”
Matthew Halla, “The Unreachable Star”
Nick Mahar, “Sands of Fate”
Andrew Trost, “Bloom”
Dominic Bartolone, “Sweet Santa Barbara Brown”
Jessica Hershatter, “Pirandello on Broadway”
A highlight of the evening was watching the immensely talented and endlessly inspiring Rodrigo Prieto take the stage—a consummate professional, and experimental filmmaker who was shooting commercials in his early 20s. Prieto reminisced about this time in a message to the room to stay enthusiastic about the work you do. “I was 22 when I got my first commercial as a DP,” he said. “I was in film school and I still remember looking through the eyepiece and seeing a slate with my name on it… It was a joy that I still experience when I see my slate next to the names of the directors I’m working with. That’s very exciting. I never stopped learning.”
According to Local 600’s Jimmy Matlosz and Steven Poster, the Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA) will return next year.
Congratulations to the winners.
