Ava DuVernay is an American filmmaker, television producer and former film publicist. She is a recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, a NAACP Image Award, a BAFTA Film Award and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee of an Academy Award and Golden Globe.
Roger Deakins is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.
He is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
Deakins’ first feature film in America as cinematographer was Mountains of the Moon (1990). He began his collaboration with the Coen brothers in 1991 on the film Barton Fink. He received his first major award from the American Society of Cinematographers for his outstanding achievement in cinematography for the internationally praised major motion picture, The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
He is also known for his work in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010), Skyfall (2012), Sicario (2015), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
Deakins also worked as one of the visual consultants for Pixar’s animated feature WALL-E.
In 2018 he won an Oscar for best cinematographer for his work in Blade Runner 2049 and an Oscar for 1917 in 2020.
Julie Lynn formed Mockingbird Pictures in 1999, with Bonnie Curtis joining in 2011. Ms. Lynn and Ms. Curtis recently completed the 2019 Terminator reboot, directed by Tim Miller. Mockingbird is in production on its first animated film, My Father’s Dragon, based upon the beloved children’s book by Ruth Kahn, and directed by Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey for Netflix.
Rodrigo García Barcha is a film director, screenwriter, author and former cinematographer, best known for his films Nine Lives, Mother and Child, Albert Nobbs, Last Days in the Desert, as well as his work on the HBO drama series, In Treatment.
