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Julia Elaine Mills [JEM] Julia Elaine Mills [email protected] Owner: Cerulean Blue, LLC (917)975.5150 IATSE Local 52 Hire www.juliafilm.com Australian Cinematographer’s [JEM] IMDB: Julia Elaine Mills Society Member PROFESSIONAL WORK Sony Entertainment NAB Floor Representative for F5 and 4K Cameras – NAB, Las Vegas, April, 2013 Monkey Bay Productions (Production Intern/International Communication Liaison) – France, Summer 2012 Eastern Effects Lighting and Grip Equipment Rental House (Day Player/Contractor) – Summer 2011 Handheld Films Camera Rental House (Intern) – Summer 2011 City Stage (Sound Stage) Production Facility (Production Intern) – Spring 2011 NYU Tisch Film Teaching Soundstage (Camera Classes Technical Assistant) – Fall 2012‐Spring 2013 FILM EXPERIENCE Features/TV/Commercials “Royal Pains” USA Network Grip: TV Drama “Elementary” CBS Grip: TV Drama “The Michael J Fox Show” NBC Grip: TV Comedy “The Following” Fox Grip: TV Drama “The Blacklist” NBC Grip: TV Drama “The Carrie Diaries” HBO Grip: TV Comedy “Us & Them” Fox Grip: TV Comedy “Alpha House” Amazon Original Grip: TV Comedy Drama “Shelter” BiFrost Pictures Grip/BBG: Feature starring Jennifer Director Paul Bettany Connelly and Anthony Mackie “Petunia” Yale Productions/Cranium Ent. Grip: Feature starring Thora Birch and Producers Jordan Yale LeVine, Thora Birch Brittany Snow “Person of Interest” CBS Grip/Electrician: TV Drama “Squirrels to the Nuts” Lagniappe Films Grip/Electrician: Comedy starring Director Peter BogdanoVich Jennifer Anniston and Owen Wilson “Beware the Night” Screen Gems Electrician: Action Crime Horror starring Director Scott Derrickson Eric Bana “About Alex” The Bedford Falls Company Electrician: Feature starring Nate Parker Director Jesse Zwick and Jason Ritter “Essie Video” Iced Media Best Boy Grip: commercial Narrative Short Films “Cigar Ring” Nancy Menagh DP “Letters to Xue Chen” Justin Scholar DP “Playtime” FAMU/NYU Film DP “Point Source” Jonathan Fang Lighting Designer/Gaffer: Sci‐Fi “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” Eric Bigman Gaffer “Backyard Portal” Mathew Roscoe Gaffer “Takes Two to Tango” Maxim Cirlan Gaffer: shot in Greek (in Prague) “The Doorman” Serena Dee Gaffer “A Late Man” Fidel Ruiz‐Healy Key Grip “Dust” Lana Tannir Key Grip Education •2009‐2010 Vassar College (Major in Film Production, minor in Chinese) •2010‐2013 New York University, Tisch School of the Arts for Film and TV (NYC)(minor in Chinese)(Honors) •2012 Spring Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts (Prague) (35mm Cinema Program) Speaks Chinese and some French References Jeffery “Ted” Wachs DP – Referred by Ted to Union [email protected] Canella Williams‐Larrabee UPM (347) 613‐1764 .
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