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bring it back in line with the rest of the
picture's footage. The cameraman recalls
that Egoyan was amazed at how 'normal'
the lab could make the 5239 stock look.

Sarossy credits Hinton with doing
his usual excellent job on the final print,

While

he laments the existence of "some kind
of technical mandate that

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pervades
filmmaking [and dictates that] everything
has to be normal and standardized."

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Rome, where cinematographers and
filmmakers conferred and exchanged

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The

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"Cinematographer's
Day" was staged at the 1999 Palm
Springs Festival, and focused on the
cultural and scientific exchange among
European
and North American
cinematographers. Attendees addressed
various issues, such as creating a visual
language, maintaining good working
relationships with directors, and
establishing the cinematographer as the
"author" of a film's photographic scheme.
Following the success of this
event, Tovoli and the Festival agreed that
it should be expanded for the year 2000.

Arnaldo

Pomodoro, will
be bestowed
upon a director
of photography

during the
Nortel Palm

Springs
International

relationship, which is something that
not being done in the United States.
Of course, expanding the festival has
meant more work for everyone!"
Tovoli's ideas have realized by Dr.
David B. Kaminsky, M.D., a member of

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From January 14-16, the Nortel
Palm Springs International Film Festival

S.

will be offering an extensive program

A co-founder of the international IMAGO

Springs Festival's board of directors, and

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that pays tribute to the craft and artistry
of motion picture photography. Dubbed
"Cinematographer's Day," this special
segment of the festival was masterminded by Italian cameraman Luciano
Tovoli, ASC, AIC. He adapted the idea
from a similar event he'd helped to plan
during the 1980s at L'Aquila University

cinematography confederation, and the
current president of the AIC (Association
of Italian Cinematographers), the
cameraman explains, "My idea was to

chairman of the Italian Film Division

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the executive committee of the Palm
as

liaison for the Italian Film Commission. "I
met Luciano about

three years ago

while

work

an Italian cinema seminar,
and he became enamored with the Palm

bring
cinematographers and directors together
to
openly discuss their working

Springs Festival due to the quality of the
Italian films we were showing,"
Kaminsky explains. "He thought this

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and

our

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