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Clockwise from top left: New ASC members Dana Gonzales, David Greene, Peter Zeitlinger and
Mark Weingartner.

Society Welcomes Gonzales,
Greene, Weingartner, Zeitlinger
New active member Dana Gonzales, ASC was born in Los Angeles. He
worked his way up through the ranks and
notched credits as 2nd-unit cinematographer on features that include Crash (2004),
The Tempest (AC Jan. '11) and The Fighter
(AC Jan. '11). Gonzales' early credits as
main-unit cinematographer include the
feature Man in the Chair. Soon thereafter,
he began collaborating with director Ric
Roman Waugh, beginning with Felon
(2008), followed by Snitch (2013) and the
upcoming Shot Caller. Gonzales also enjoys
a thriving television career, having worked
on the series Pretty Little Liars, Southland,
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Longmire and Fargo.
Gonazales' other recent credits
include the pilots for Legion and Brooklyn
Animal Control, and the features Empire
State, Criminal and Incarnate.
David Greene, ASC, CSC was born
in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. At age 15,
Greene volunteered at the local communityaccess television station, manning cameras
at sporting events and producing shows
with friends. By 17 he was studying electronics at a college in Toronto, but he soon
transferred into the film program at York
University, where he went on to win several
Canadian Society of Cinematography
student awards. After graduating, Greene
worked on short films and music videos, but
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it was his work on a small independent
feature, Century Hotel, that caught the eye
of an American television movie producer.
Greene has since been nominated for three
ASC Awards, one each for his work on the
12 Monkeys episode "Mentally Divergent,"
the Beauty and the Beast episode "Tough
Love" and the telefilm The Trip to Bountiful.
Greene's credits also include the
features Defendor, The Entitled and Empire
of Dirt. He has also recently directed several
episodes of Lost Girl and 12 Monkeys.
Mark Weingartner, ASC was born
in New York City. While growing up, he
lived on both coasts and in the Midwest, as
well as Europe. He received extensive exposure to fine arts and practical experience in
still photography, and when he returned to
New York for college, he worked as a
theatrical lighting designer, a path that led
him to motion picture and television lighting and eventually cinematography. In 1994
Weingartner designed a system for lighting
and controlling 12,000 square feet of
greenscreens for Richard Yuricich, ASC on
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. Weingartner
first stepped up to shoot effects in another
collaboration with Yuricich, Event Horizon.
Weingartner's credits include plate
photography, visual-effects photography
and additional photography on features
including G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and
Retaliation; Moneyball; The Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and Part 2; The
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Mockingjay
- Part 1 and Mockingjay - Part 2; Inception;
Interstellar; and the upcoming Dunkirk.
Peter Zeitlinger, ASC, BVK was
born on an island on the Vltava River in
Prague. During the Russian invasion in
1968, Zeitlinger and his mother fled to
Austria. Zeitlinger studied cinematography
and editing at the film academy in Vienna,
where he won several student awards. In
1985, during a summer academy program
in L'Aquila, Italy, Zeitlinger met and was
inspired by ASC members Vittorio Storaro,
Sven Nykvist and Vilmos Zsigmond. After
shooting several features and documen-

Photo of Clubhouse by Isidore Mankofsky, ASC; lighting by Donald M. Morgan, ASC.
Golf photos by Alex Lopez and Reynaldo Aquino.

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