Gavin Finney
Gavin Finney (* 1963 in London , England ) is a British cameraman . He is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers .
life and career
After attending schools in London and Highgate , Finney first studied film production at the Manchester Polytechnic . After completing his studies at the National Film & Television School , he began his film career initially as a photographer , interested in the history, changes in the style and technology of film stills on the one hand, and the differences in the use of conventional still cameras on the other, the latest developments and discussed their advantages and disadvantages.
From 1994 he was employed as a cameraman for feature films and from 1999 increasingly also for television series. So he turned u. a. individual episodes of Forgotten (1999), Gormenghast (2000), Colditz - Flucht in die Freiheit (2005), The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberer (2009), Terry Pratchett - Ab die Post (2010), Mr Selfridge , Sindbad , The Fear (all 2012), The Guilty (2013), Unforgotten , Black Work (both 2015) and The Secret Agent (2016).
In the course of his career, Finney has been nominated for numerous film awards and has received awards. For the series The Fear , produced in 2013 , he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Photography and Lightning - Drama , the 2013 British Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Television-Drama and the 2013 Royal Television Society Camera Award. 2015 he won the acclaimed series criticism Wolves the Best Cinematography Award of the British Society of Cinematographers.
Since 1998 he has been a member of the British Society of Cinematographers , of which he was president from 2006 to 2008.
literature
- David A. Ellis: In Conversation with Cinematographers. Lanham, New York, London: Rowman & Littlefield 2015. Chapter 2. ISBN 978-1-4422-5109-0
Web links
- Gavin Finney in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website Gavin Finney
- Ellen Wixted: Wolf Hall DP Gavin Finney: modern tech for a period drama , Interview in: Randi Altman's postPerspektiven.
Individual evidence
- ^ Davis A. Ellis: In Conversation with Cinematographers, Lanham 2015. p. 9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finney, Gavin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |