Director Carlos López Estrada — Academy Award® nominee for “Raya and the Last Dragon” and winner of the Dolby Institute Fellowship — leads another all-star panel of Hollywood talent to discuss how they broke into the industry as professional cinematographers. And what better way to do that than by discussing their first feature films?

“Cinematographers, together with the directors and writers of a film, are also the authors of the story. They are responsible for every image, for every frame, [for] every message that needs to be communicated in order to communicate the story. And we’re very lucky to have, today, six incredible cinematographers talking about the beginning of their journeys and how their early projects helped shape their filmmaking voices.”

—Carlos López Estrada, Director, "Blindspotting,” “Raya and the Last Dragon,” “Summertime”

Today’s panel includes Directors of Photography:

- Mandy Walker (Elvis, Mulan, Hidden Figures, Australia)

- Larry Fong (300, Batman V. Superman, Kong: Skull Island, the pilot of LOST)

- Lawrence Sher (Joker, the Hangover trilogy, Garden State)

- Oren Soffer (The Creator w/ Greig Fraser)

- Sandra Valde-Hansen (The Summer I Turned Pretty, The L Word: Generation Q)

- Karina Silva (No Man of God, the upcoming Which Brings Me to You)

This discussion was streamed live as part of Antigravity Academy’s new Satellite Sessions — “monthly conversations with incredibly exciting figures from the film and TV universe” — co-presented by CAPE USA (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment).

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