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When it comes to offering users the ultimate web experience in the world of cinematography for film and digital production, there is only one destination: icgmagazine.com ICG 2012 EDITORIAL CALENDAR t d n i l F OCTOBER 2011 OCTOBER 2011 ICG f ICG ICG AUGUST 2011 AUGUST 2011 ICG ICG MAY 2011 MAY 2011 ICG f ICG JULY 2011 JULY 2011 ICG e J f o y s e t r u o c o t o h p C UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM C Michael McDonough is wasting no time following up his acclaimed work on the Oscar- nominated Winter’s Bone, which earned him an Independent Spirit nomination for Best Cinematography and won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2010. Since ZUDSSLQJ WKDW ÷OP KH OHQVHG The Mortician, an ultra-low budget 3-D feature all shot with TUNNEL VISION Union members, and completed another Sundance darling, Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground, WHY THE WORLD’S BEST WATER which debuted in Park City earlier this year. He also worked on a “dream project” with CAMERAMEN STILL SHOOT ON FILM Rodrigo Garcia and Glenn Close in Dublin called Albert Nobbs. 7KH 6FRWWLVK H[SDWÚV ÷UVW LQGXVWU\ JLJ ZDV DV D UG HOHFWULF ZLWK 9LOPRV =VLJPRQG RQ D commercial in 1996. “Vilmos was shooting on early Sony Hi-def, and I could watch everything he did,” he recounts. Clearly, McDonough, who “salivates at the thought of putting some SPIN DOCTORS GLI÷FXOW DZNZDUG QRWUHDGLO\DFFHSWHG LGHDV RXW WKHUHÝ ZDV DQ DSW SXSLO PHEDON PAPAMICHAEL, ASC, GOES DEEP INTO THE POLITICAL HEARTLAND FOR A NEW CAMPAIGN Winter’s Bone ZDV EHDXWLIXO LQ LWV VWDUNQHVV DQG øDW SDOHWWH of Darling Companion QRZ LQ SRVW@ ZDV YHU\ VSHFL÷F ZLWK PH × How’d you achieve that? It started with the script — a stark tale Ü, OLNH D FULVS FOHDQ LPDJHÝ × VR KH ZDVQÚW GLJJLQJ WKH VWRFNLQJ THRILLER DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY [set] in a cold, de-saturated winter world. 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