The Man Who Shot Chinatown
Production Company: Montagnola Productions Ltd & Molinare
Director: Axel Schill
DoP: Volker Gläser
Film Editor: Peter Wiggins
Producers: Stephanie Bahr, Steve Milne
Release Date: 2007 Cambridge Film Festival July
Length: 78 min
Main Cast: John A. Alonzo as Himself (archive footage)
Synopsis: This is the story of a young Mexican farmer boy, who against all odds became one of the most influential characters in the field of cinematography. It is a 77 minutes portrait of a man whose passion for films encompassed and promoted the immense power of film as an art form and the craft of cinematography as crucial to its impact on the viewing audience. Interviews with actors Sally Field and Richard Dreyfuss, the American Film Critic Roger Ebert, the directors William Friedkin, Mike Figgis, John McNaughton as well as the author and director Michael Crichton and the cinematographers Haskell Wexler A.S.C., John Toll, A.S.C., and many colleagues and friends like Frank Sinatra Jr. shine some light on Alonzo’s creative process. His exceptional capacities as a cinematographer will be explained with the use of film clips from Harold & Maude, Vanishing Point, Sounder, Chinatown, Norma Rae, Scarface, Farewell, My Lovely, Blue Thunder, Internal Affairs and many others.
Colourist: Tim Waller
Compositors: Kristian Whitlock, Gareth Parry
DI Technician: Andy Richards
Graphics: Gareth Parry
Online Editor: Gareth Parry
Post Production Manager: Richard Hart, Katie Shahrokh