ICG Magazine

Guild members from around the alliance share their stories of the challenges and rewards of the unique craft of BTS capture.

Phedon Papamichael, ASC, helps “electrify” James Mangold’s new Bob Dylan biopic, "A Complete Unknown."

"Nightbitch" is a film that depicts both the loss and rediscovery of self through motherhood. The loss of self, which a child-bearing mother experiences when her offspring enters this world, hasn’t been well-documented in mainstream media. Still, the struggle is a hot topic amongst mothers whose voices have grown collectively over the last half-century.

"People are quick to criticize unscripted TV crews, judging and labeling them as not real filmmakers or storytellers. But the truth is that reality operators have instincts that are second to none," says Local 600 Director of Photography Dawn Fleischman, SOC.

FOX TV’s "Rescue: HI Surf" mixes art-house intimacy with white-knuckle action to highlight the community of life-savers working the “Seven-Mile Miracle” of O’ahu’s famed North Shore.

“My parents bought me a Betamax camcorder in 1985, so I was the AV nerd holding the big camera at high school events,” says Local 600 Operator Eric Dyson.

For the Apple TV+ series "Dark Matter," Directors of Photography John Lindley, ASC, and Jeffrey Greeley plumb infinite options offered by the roads not taken.

Five ICG Directors of Photography, led by Stuart Dryburgh, ASC, and Teo Maniaci, help transpose one of the industry’s most enduring video games to the small screen.