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Papamichael Drives Innovation with Expanded C Series Glass

Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC has a long history with Panavision lenses, having used them on many of his best-known credits including 3:10 to Yuma, The Weather Man, Sideways, W., The Descendants, The Ides of March, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, and Nebraska, the latter of which brought him an Oscar nomination. The range of styles, directors and stories on that list speaks to the cinematographer’s versatility.

Monika Lenczewska’s imagery on Under the Tree, Message from the King, and Park earned the cinematographer many accolades on the international film festival circuit over the last few years. This talented filmmaker was also recognized as one of Variety’s “Top 10 Cinematographers to Watch” in 2016. Monika’s recent accomplishments include episodes of Danny Boyle’s FX series Trust, and Brad Furman’s drama City of Lies. She is currently shooting commercials globally while reading projects to find her next film.

FX's American Horror Story series goes retro for Season 9, back to the heyday of low-budget horror classics of the late 1970s and early 1980s in AHS: 1984. Viewers are introduced to a killer who terrorizes camp counselors, but with a fresh AHS blood injection into all the familiar horror tropes of that era. Slasher films aren't the only thing the AHS production went back to — AHS: 1984 also marks a return to Panavision as the camera service provider. This time, they added Light Iron post to the remix.