Dehanza Rogers

Impressions from a UCLA Student

Dehanza Rogers is a 2nd year, Dual Track student at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) in Los Angeles, California. A Dual Tracker is what the school affectionately calls a student who is enrolled as both a Production/Directing MFA and a Cinematography MFA student. Dehanza recently attended the special screening of The Last of the Mohicans: with a Oscar®-nominee Dante Spinotti, AIC, ASC as part of the 2012 Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence Program for the spring quarter at UCLA/TFT.   

Dehanza Tweeted from the event and you can follow her recap of the Q&A session on Twitter at #KodakUCLA. Here she shares her expanded impressions from the event and the program:

(l-r)Beau Bridges and George Clooney staring in The Descendents (Photo by Merie Wallace)

The director-DP duo that brought us Sideways - Alexander Payne and Phedon Papamichael, ASC – have reunited for The Descendents.

The film, starring George Clooney, takes you through the emotional journey as a Hawaiian land baron (Clooney) tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident.

“There are moments of truth in filmmaking that are a fleeting and delicate thing, but it is the stuff that touches the soul.”
— Haskell Wexler, ASC

Barry Ackroyd, BSC (The Hurt Locker), Christian Berger, AAC (The White Ribbon), Bruno Delbonnel, AFC, ASC (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Mauro Fiore, ASC (Avatar) and Robert Richardson, ASC (Inglourious Basterds) are the 2010 Academy Award® nominees for cinematography. This year’s nomination is the sixth for Richardson, who earned Academy Awards for JFK and The Aviator. Delbonnel’s nod is his third, and Ackroyd, Berger and Fiore are celebrating their first nominations.

On September 9th, in a special presentation held in Sydney Australia, Kodak introduced and celebrated the 2009 KODAK AWARD New Director of the Year winners to more than 200 members of the entertainment industry in the Asia Pacific region.  The KODAK AWARD New Director winner is Dael Oates from Prodigy Films Sydney and the KODAK AWARD New Director - Student or Current Graduate winner is David Rusanow from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.