ACADEMY AWARD WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER WEXLER TO SPEAK

2 time Academy Award-winning cinematographer, film producer and director Haskell Wexler will join the SoCal Moviemakers on August 14th in our second episode on the art of Moviemaking entitled "Creating Your Image: The Art of Cinematography". Wexler has been for many decades an independent voice in an industry known for obsequiousness. (He fought with Mike Nichols over the look of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1965 and went on to win an Oscar for the cinematography.) Join us to meet Haskell Wexler and hear his unorthodox views on movie-making today.

Regarded as one of the ten most influential cinematographers by members of the International Cinematographers Guild, Wexler’s list of accomplishments also includes documentary collaborations with human rights activist Saul Landau. The 1980 documentary Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang earned an Emmy award. Wexler also wrote and shot Medium Cool, which incorporated riot footage from the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

In 1988, he won an Independent Spirit Award for his cinematography on John Sayles’ Matewan (for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award), and in 1993, he won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers. In 2004, he was the subject of a documentary, Tell Them Who You Are, directed by his son, Mark Wexler.

Networking as well as a screening of the short film "GayDate" by a local filmmaker will also take place.