Overview
Join us for our special Gear Up: Adding Mirrorless Cameras to Your Lineup event in NY!
On Friday, April 26 we're inviting you to a special evening event in NY dedicated to mirrorless cameras, their applications, and how to best integrate them into your existing gear lineup. The event will feature manufacturer booths on the showroom floor displaying the latest mirrorless cameras, lenses, and accessories. Attendees are encouraged to go hands-on with all the gear and get their questions answered by manufacturer specialists as well as our own AbelCine tech specialists. This event will also include a special panel featuring working filmmakers and creatives.
Participating manufacturers will include:
- CameoGear
- Canon
- Fathom Camera
- Sony
- ZEISS
- ...and more!
Schedule
6:00 PM - Doors open, refreshments are served
6:30 PM - Welcome + Intro
Community Sponsor: Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective
Malik Isasis, Filmmaker
7:00 PM - Filmmaker Panel + Audience Q&A
César Martinez, Filmmaker & Editor
Autumn Moran, Director of Photography
Rick Siegel, Director of Photography & Lighting Designer
Sam Sielen, Director of Photography & Producer
Moderated by Geoff Smith, Camera Technology Specialist, AbelCine
8:30 PM - Hands-on time with manufacturers on the showroom
Networking
9:00 PM - Doors close
Speakers
César Martinez
César Martinez is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker and editor. He is a graduate of Occidental College, with an Honors B.A. in Media Arts and Culture. César is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, has interned for American Documentary | POV, served as the Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow at Creative Time, was selected as a 2018 NeXt Doc Fellow, and is the 2018 Fall Social Justice Filmmaker Fellow in the Creative Culture program at the Jacob Burns Film Center. See more of his work at www.cmphoto84.com.
Autumn Moran
Autumn Moran is a New York based Director of Photography, who has honed her skills as a Local 600 camera assistant on projects such as Little Women and Madam Secretary.
As a cinematographer, she excels at finding the right tools and visual style to best serve the script. Autumn lensed Among The Lost, a narrative short that was honored by the ASC as well as numerous shorts, features and web series.
Autumn was raised in Boston, MA and started her career in film in Washington, DC prior to moving to NYC. Her driving passion is to create memorable and compelling images that serve the emotion, characters and arc of the story.
Rick Siegel
Rick Siegel is an award-winning Director of Photography who has worked in film and television for over 30 years. He has been DP on several feature films, including Bomber, which won Best Feature at several major film festivals, and Trust, Greed, Bullets and Bourbon, currently in post-production. Siegel won an Emmy Award (Outstanding Achievement for Single Camera Photography) for his episodic narrative work on ABC's Crash The Curiousaurus.
Siegel has designed and photographed over 100 televised music and comedy shows, including several seasons of A&E's Live By Request, Dave Matthews Band in Central Park, PBS's In the Spotlight series with Steely Dan, and Nora Jones in concert. E.P.K.'s for music artists include Tony Bennett, Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and Jessica Simpson. Comedy specials designed and photographed by Siegel include those featuring Lewis Black, Wyatt Cenac, Louis C.K., Craig Ferguson, Kevin Hart and John Oliver. See more of his work at www.ricksiegel.net.
Sam Sielen
Always in pursuit of technical perfection and capturing compelling stories, Sam’s work has spanned from docudramas with the FBI to remote regions of Antarctica. Creating visually-pleasing images that show his subjects in their best light, Sam’s style is creative, refined - as well as efficient and effective. Sam has organized, trained and equipped camera crews for large productions, and is just as comfortable shooting on a ship as in a studio. In addition to production work, Sam’s experience as a video technical expert for the Manhattan DA’s office led to him testifying numerous times in court and work on high profile cases. Sam’s experience also includes videos for web, crowd funding, PSAs and celebrity interviews, both as a solo operator and with various size crews.
After years of creating and using his own custom camera rigs, the demand for Sam’s custom one-off rigs progressed to Sam creating Fathom Camera, where he designs and produces innovative camera rigs and accessories.
See more of his work at www.samsielen.com and learn more about Fathom Camera at www.fathomcamera.com.
Community Sponsor
Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective (BFC)
BFC is a supportive community of filmmakers who come together for weekly peer workshops. The collective has two seasons a year: fall and spring. We meet once a week for three hours to workshop projects in various stages from development to final cut and beyond.
Central to the collective is fostering a generous community that shares knowledge, skills, and connections. We aim to cultivate a supportive and encouraging space that challenges the filmmaker to create their strongest work. We are a consensus-based group that values equitable interactions and diverse voices. Find out more at www.brooklynfilmmakerscollective.com
