Category Archive:   Cinematography


Robbie Ryan recently won the cinematography award at the Venice Film Festival for his work on Wuthering Heights. It is his fourth collaboration with director Andrea Arnold. Can you tell us about your background and how long you have been a cinematographer ? I left dun laoghaire art college in 1993 and have in some [...]

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Owen McPolin I.S.C. Director of Photography talks about shooting Opening Episode of the New Series of “Dr. Who” for BBC 1. Can you tell us your name, your background and how long you have been a cinematographer? I was Born in Cork, raised in Kerry and I attended the CBS in Tralee in the 80’s. [...]

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Tell us about your background and how you got into Cinematography? I started in the film business about 27 years ago. At that early stage I was shooting corporate videos for ‘Carr Communications’. I moved on from there to cover sports, news, and magazine programmes for TV. In those days everything was shot on Low/High [...]

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CAN YOU TELL US YOUR BACKGROUND AND HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN A CINEMATOGRAPHER ? I was in Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design. My mother was a painter and my father was an actor so shooting films kind of felt like a natural place to wind up. I shot factual TV and low budget music videos, [...]

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