Overview
Join us on Monday, March 29 for Creative Forces Online! This FREE event will feature special guest cinematographer Shana Hagan, ASC, who will discuss her artistic approach to crafting shots, as well as what inspires her work as a cinematographer. The stream will be hosted by AbelCine Technology and Education Development Manager Megan Donnelly, with time for Q&A throughout.
For the past 25 years, Shana Hagan, ASC has shot Oscar and Emmy-winning documentaries with such distinguished filmmakers as Michael Apted, Jessica Yu, Morgan Neville, Lauren Greenfield, and Rory Kennedy. She is a member of The American Society of Cinematographers, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, The International Cinematographers Guild, The International Documentary Association, and The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Shana’s documentary work includes the Academy Award-winning Breathing Lessons, Academy Award-nominated Walk Run Cha-Cha, and 17 Sundance Film Festival selections including Generation Wealth, Queen of Versailles, Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, and Shakespeare Behind Bars. Shana shot The Kingmaker, which premiered at Venice, then Telluride, then Toronto in the fall of 2019. Shana was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Survivor: China. She shot four seasons of NBC’s Parks and Recreation and was the 2nd Unit DP on the first season of the Netflix reboot of Arrested Development. Other feature doc work includes Food, Inc, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Won't You Be My Neighbor, and Inventing Tomorrow.
Hagan just wrapped the first season of Paul Feig’s This Country series for Fox, based on the award-winning BBC Three series of the same name. She also recently lensed two projects with Michael Apted - the US portions of his long-running documentary series 63UP and the third installment of his series Married in America.
In May 2019 through the US State Department's American Film Showcase, Hagan travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to teach four day Master Class Workshops to young Ethiopian filmmakers. In the fall of 2019, Hagan was a mentor at Newport Film’s inaugural Documentary Cinematography Lab in Newport, RI. She also enjoys mentoring Academy Gold and USC film students and has been on panels and guest lectured at USC, LMU, CalArts, Emerson, Chapman, and NYU. In addition, Hagan teaches Documentary Cinematography at Wild Mind Film Camp.
To see more of her work, visit her website at www.shanahagan.com.
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