FLIFF on Location: Grand Bahama Island FLIFF on Location: Grand Bahama Island to feature Underwater Film Workshop
Sep 30, 2011 - 12:44:06 AM
Freeport, Grand Bahama - On the 28th of October 2011 FlIFF on-location: GBI will
facilitate a one day workshop for underwater videographers at beginning and
intermediate skill levels.
Participants must provide their own underwater video
equipment. Video equipment is not supplied and rentals are not available.
Beginning at 9:00 am morning workshop discussions will
include underwater camera techniques and the importance of production planning.
Lunch break. at 2:00 pm participants will check in with the
Underwater Explorers Society (UNEXSO) to film UNEXSO’s legendary shark dive where
attendees will be challenged with producing a short video of their shark diving
experience.
An afternoon post dive session will involve video screening
and discussions.
The UNEXSO shark dive:
• The Shark Dive Requires A Minimum Of 4 And A Maximum Of 10
People.
• Only Fully Certified Divers Will Be Allowed To
Participate.
• Divers Are Required To Check In At 2:00 Pm.
• UNEXSO will provide dive gear. participants may wish to
bring their own diving equipment in which case the cost will be the same.
Paul Mockler IATSE local 667 director of photography associate member: Canadian society of Cinematographers.
In a career spanning more than 35 years, Paul Mockler has worked on
hundreds of commercial, documentary and dramatic films. Several film and
television highlights are listed below.
Early credits include writer and cinematographer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s The New Wave Ocean environment and technology series; director, writer and cinematographer for the wildlife documentary series
This Land; underwater cinematographer for the CBC/Disney
Danger Bay series; CBC
Beachcombers and the MGM
Sea Hunt series.
Paul Mockler won the prestigious Gemini award in 1987 for “Best
Cinematography in a television series or performing arts program”,
presented by the academy of Canadian Cinema & television. Other
awards include a Cable Ace award nomination for the Nature Connection
series and a nomination for Best Cinematography awarded by the British
Association of Film & Television for cinematography on the 1994 BBC
production Into the wild.
Credits on feature motion pictures include underwater director of photography for Zeus and Roxanne, Phoenix Blue, and the fantasy adventure
Nomad. Underwater commercial work has included Club Med and the E Channel’s feature on Victoria’s Secret swimwear.
Documentary credits have also included series-cinematographer for Supernatural, a BBC/Discovery co-production, with additional documentary film credits on a number of BBC productions such as the
Holiday Series, Living Dangerously, BBC Horizon’s, Human Instinct and
Extreme Animals.
Recent documentaries include the IMAX 3D production Sea Monsters,
produced by IMAX and National Geographic. Documentary credits also
include the Mighty Machines series and underwater director of photography for the Discovery Channel’s
Mythbusters Shark Week special. Recent motion picture features include underwater DP for the Hofmann & Voges Production
Der Seewolf (The Sea Wolf) and Paradise Productions,
Beneath the Blue. Television productions also include underwater photographer for “Germany’s Next Top Model – With Heidi Klum”.