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Guy Mossman is a Director of Photography who made his first short film in 2000 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay. In 2002, he was awarded a prestigious Park Fellowship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to pursue an M.A. in Journalism. Since then, Guy has dedicated himself to lensing documentaries, non-fiction television and commercials. His love of storytelling with an eye for light and composition, has attracted film and commercial directors around the world.
Guy is best known for his dramatic photography on the Oscar short-listed documentary film, Buck (2011, dir. Cindy Meehl), which also won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Bending The Arc (2017, dir. Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos), #UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020, dir. Dan Partland), and premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Feels Good Man (dir. Arthur Jones), which won the Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. Docuseries DP work include the field packages for the 2019 Critic's Choice Best Live Show award winner Chasing The Cure Live with Ann Curry (TNT, 2019, DP), Amazon Studio's Inside Jokes (All3Media, 2018, DP EP. 101-102), Jennifer Lopez’s critically-acclaimed series Los Jets (Hulu, 2014, Series DP, EP: Mark Landsman) and Bravo's Extreme Guide to Parenting (BravoTV, 2014, Series DP, EP: Lauren Lazin).
His camera work on Buck was singled out in the Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey for being "both beautiful and evocative," and it was again praised by LA Times TV critic Robert Lloyd in Los Jets (2014), "[Guy] gives every element its due; the clamor, the quiet, the details of décor and decoration, the richness of the landscape, the look of air under floodlights."
Other notable projects include Jason Cohen’s feature length documentary, The Lost Lincoln, EPed by Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas (Discovery+, 2021), the award-winning American Masters film, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (Netflix, 2016, dir. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady), Owned: A Tale of Two Americas (2018, dir. Giorgio Angelini), Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul (Netflix, 2017, dir. John Edginton), Two Trains Runnin’ (2016, dir. Sam Pollard), Comicon Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope (2011, dir. Morgan Spurlock), Sex Crimes Unit (HBO, Co-DP, 2011, dir. Lisa F. Jackson), Mariachi High (PBS, 2010, dir. Ilana Trachtman), and the lauded American Masters doc Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (PBS/Netflix, 2010, dir. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg).
He most recently collaborated with David France on his timely HBO documentary, How To Survive a Pandemic, and with Dave Rivera on his CNN+ flagship series, Land of The Giants: Titans of Tech, based on the award-winning Vox Media podcast.
Now based in Los Angeles, Guy is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild.
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Feels Good Man – Guild cinematographer Guy Mossman, who lensed Sundance audience favorite Buck and Bending the Arc, returns to Park City with a documentary feature about Matt Furie, the creator behind the indie comic character Pepe the Frog, and Furie’s fight to “bring Pepe back from darkness and navigate America’s cultural divide.” The film was directed by artist Arthur Jones and produced by Giorgio Angelini, Caryn Capostoto and Arron Wickendon. The project combined animation, interviews, and stylized visual sequences, with Mossman using a Canon C300 Mark II, Zeiss LWZ.2 15.5-45mm zoom, and a set of rehoused Lomo Super Speed Primes, known for their dramatic flower petal bokeh.
2020 Sundance Film Festival announces packed lineup including documentaries centred around the singer and the notorious meme. In Feels Good Man, director Arthur Jones will explore Pepe the Frog’s creator, Matt Furie, and his fight to save his drawing from becoming a symbol of hatred.
Why Is This Happening Podcast: Documenting our real estate obsession with Giorgio Angelini. Chris Hayes talks with filmmaker Giorgio Angelini about his visually stunning new documentary, “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas.”
This energetic film unpacks the complex history of home ownership in America to reveal the postwar housing economy’s racist underpinnings—the creation of a large middle class simultaneous with the systematic defunding and segregating of communities. World Premiere
Netflix’s new documentary about the British blues singer doesn’t dive deep into the psyche of a man who is mostly remembered for his much-mocked stage antics. But John Edginton’s film, with interviews from childhood friends, longtime bandmates, producers, engineers, admiring peers and backup singers, does create a marvelous tribute to a singer who, like James Brown, left it all onstage every night– hundreds of stages, thousands and thousands of nights . . .
The incredible evolution of their story is presented through a riveting mix of talking-head interviews, archival footage, and vérité footage . . . more here.
“Two Trains Runnin’,” Sam Pollard’s compact, resonant documentary — part essay film, part road picture, part musical anthology — is built around an astonishing historical coincidence. On June 21, 1964, two lost giants of the Delta blues, Skip James and Son House, were found by separate crews of obsessed music fans after weeks of amateur sleuthing along the back roads of Mississippi …
“I fell in love with filmmaking later in life. I grew up watching narrative features, foreign films, and music videos like many in my generation. It wasn’t until I first saw Martin Bell’s film, Streetwise, about homeless teenagers in the downtown streets of 1980’s Seattle that I thought to myself that this is what I need to be doing.”
Read the entire interview on Fujinon’s blog: Part 1 | Part 2
Feelings of superiority and gawking are both staples of unscripted TV, and Bravo has successfully wedded them in “Extreme Guide to Parenting.” Basically, the series brings the voyeurism of “Hoarders” to the more relatable if imprecise art of raising children, introducing families whose good intentions place them on the fringes of what even the most diligent parents might consider normal
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In Westchester, N.Y., Shira Adler’s 10-year-old son Yonah screams, “I f**king hate you!” She responds calmly by spritzing his “aura” with one of her specialty aromatherapy sprays, and then begins to perform crystal healing, both of which are part of Adler’s daily routine with her son. Her boyfriend, Andy, suggests Yonah might need medication, which she brushes off. “He’s an Indigo Child,” she explains to the cameras. “He’s here to change the world.”
DP Guy Mossman (“Buck,” “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work“) gives every element its due; the clamor, the quiet, the details of décor and decoration, the richness of the landscape, the look of air under floodlights.”
As the United States wrestles with a demographic shift set in motion by the fast-growing Latino population, a small North Carolina town could offer the country a glimpse of what lies ahead.
At least that’s how Paul Cuadros sees it. For almost two decades, Cuadros, a journalist turned soccer coach in Siler City, has witnessed the community’s changing attitude toward Latinos. And as the protagonists of NUVOtv’s docu-series NUVOtv’s docu-series “Los Jets,” Cuadros, his all-Latino team and their families aim to give viewers a new perspective on Latino youth and the realities of first generation immigrants in the U.S. today.
Read more here….
A revealing new documentary, “To Light a Candle”, made by Iran’s award winning filmmaker and journalist Maziar Bahari is a turning point in addressing the circumstance of Baha’is in Iran. It unveils decades of repression, persecution and intimidation against a peaceful community of Iranians whose lives have been dramatically undermined by religious intolerance by the Iranian ruling class.
Having had the good fortune to attend a high school with a vital arts program, I am a sucker for documentaries about the transformative power of arts and humanities education. “Mariachi High” hits all the right notes: An underdog school district, a dedicated teacher, fiercely talented and determined students, and character-defining setbacks that raise the stakes for those “exhilarating, off the charts” moments of truth.
“Glee” without the contrivance, the tokenism or the choreographed karaoke: that’s one way of looking at “Mariachi High,” which leads off the PBS Arts summer documentary series on Friday night. Any suspicion that the film’s creators were hoping we might see it that way doesn’t lessen its charm or relevance.
“Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” covers the events in about a year of her life. If the filmmakers didn’t have total access, I don’t want to see what they missed. In one stretch in this film she closes a show in Toronto, flies overnight to Palm Springs, does a gig, flies overnight to Minneapolis, and performs another one. Try that sometime.
That’s dizzy, fizzy talk, and while Ms. Meehl is transparently taken with Mr. Brannaman, she does try to put him on terra firma. Working with the cinematographers Guy Mossman and Luke Geissbühler, and shooting in digital that I often wished were film (the big-sky landscapes deserve a more nuanced texture), she tags after Mr. Brannaman, well, kind of as his trained horses do.
The images — both beautiful and evocative — are culled from more than 300 hours of footage, much of it shot over two years by cinematographers Guy Mossman (“Sex Crimes Unit”, “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work”)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s sexual assault case has shoved Manhattan’s sex-crimes prosecutors under a microscope, but they were already getting ready for their close-up.
Shot well before the former International Monetary Fund leader’s arrest, “Sex Crimes Unit” is airing just as his case and a closely watched rape trial of two police officers have given the subject a new currency.
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THE HUMAN TRIAL, Directors: Lisa Hepner & Guy Mossman, Tenth Muse / Abramorama, 2022.
HOUSE OF HAMMER, Directors:Elli Hakami & Julian P. Hobbs, Talos / Discovery+, 2022. (Addtl.)
LAKOTA NATION VS THE UNITED STATES, Directors: Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, Cinetic / XTR, 2022. (Addtl.)
HOW TO SURVIVE A PANDEMIC, Director: David France, HBO, 2022. (LA/SD Unit)
LAND OF THE GIANTS: THE TITANS OF TECH, EP: Dave Rivera, CNN / Vox Media, 2022.(LA/SF Unit)
THE ANTIDOTE, Director: John Hoffman & Kahane Cooperman, Radical Media, 2020. (Addtl.)
FEELS GOOD MAN, Director: Arthur Jones, Wavelength Productions, Sundance Official Selection 2020. Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. Grand Jury Award Nomination.
THE LOST LINCOLN, Director: Jason Cohen, Unrealistic Ideas, Discovery Docs, 2020.
#UNFIT: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DONALD TRUMP, Director: Dan Partland, 2020.
CHASING THE CURE LIVE, EPs: Ann Curry, Kim Bondy; Turner Network, 2019. (Series, Field Packages) 2019 Critic's Choice Award for Winner for Best Live Show
LICENSE TO KILL, EPs: Adam Kassen, Craig Delaval; Shed Media, W/E Network , 2019 (Series)
INSIDE JOKES, EP: Neil Berkeley; Amazon Studios / All3 Media, 2018. (Ep. 101 and 102)
DO NO HARM: EXPOSING THE HIPPOCRATIC HOAX, Director: Robyn Symon, 2018.
OWNED: A TALE OF TWO AMERICAS, Director: Giorgio Angelini, 2018.
2018 Full Frame Film Festival Premiere
UNDIAGNOSED, Directors: Nicholas Miller and Katia Moritz, 2018, (partial)
BENDING THE ARC, Directors: Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos, 2017, (partial)
2017 Sundance Film Festival Premiere
NOBODY SPEAK: TRIALS OF THE FREE PRESS, Director: Brian Knappenberger, 2017, (partial)
2017 Sundance Film Festival Premiere
JOE COCKER: MAD DOG WITH SOUL, Director: John Edginton; 2017, Netflix.
NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU, Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, American Masters PBS, 2016. (partial)
2016 Sundance Film Festival Premiere
MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI, Director: Steven Okazaki, 2016. (partial)
TWO TRAINS RUNNIN', Director: Sam Pollard, 2016. (partial)
NYTimes Critic's Pick
NO MÁS BEBÉS, Director: Renee Tajima-Pena, 2015. (partial)
2015 Nomination LA Muse Award Los Angeles Film Festival
UNBRANDED, Director: Phillip Baribeau; Producer: Cindy Meehl, 2015. (partial)
2015 Audience Award Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
100 YEARS OF FREEDOM, Director: Daniel Ostroff, 2015. (short)
THE GO-GO BOYS: THE INSIDE STORY OF CANNON FILMS, Director: Hilla Medalia, 2014. (partial)
2014 Cannes Film Festival Premiere
LOS JETS, EPs: Jennifer Lopez, Mark Landsman, NUVO TV, 2014 (Series)
EXTREME GUIDE TO PARENTING: SEASON 1, EP: Lauren Lazin, Bravo TV, 2014 (Series)
TO LIGHT A CANDLE, Director: Maziar Bahari, 2014.
THE FASHION FUND, EPs: Ricki Stern Annie Sundberg, Ovation TV, 2014. (partial)
MELTDOWN PILOT, EP: Sean Foley, National Geographic Channel, 2013. (shared credit)
MONEY & MEDICINE, Director: Roger Weisberg, WNET/PBS, 2012. (partial)
MARIACHI HIGH, Director: Ilana Trachtman, PBS, 2012.
COMICON EPISODE IV: A FAN'S HOPE, Director: Morgan Spurlock, 2011. (shared credit)
SEX CRIMES UNIT, Director: Lisa F. Jackson, HBO, 2011. (shared credit)
BUCK, Director: Cindy Meehl, Sundance Selects/IFC/Showtime, 2011. (shared credit)
2010 Audience Award Sundance Festival
JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK, Directors: Ricki Stern Annie Sundberg, Sundance Selects/IFC, 2011. (partial)
2011 Sundance Film Festival Premiere; Emmy Award Nominee for Outstanding Arts and Cultural Programming
THE SECRET LIFE OF SCIENTISTS, Director: Joshua Seftel, NOVA and PBS/WGBH, 2009. (partial)
CONJOINED TWINS: AFTER SEPARATION, Director: Monica Lange, TLC, 2009. (partial)
RUSSELL SIMMONS’ BRAVE NEW VOICES, Director: Stan Lathan, HBO, 2009. (operator)
END OF AMERICA, Directors: Annie Sundberg Ricki Stern, 2008. (partial)
BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET, Producer: Lynn Sadofsky, Sundance Channel, 2007. (operator)
BAS! BEYOND THE RED LIGHT, Director: Wendy Champagne, NFB, 2007. (shared credit)
2010 Best Documentary Award at La Femme Film Festival
DOUBLETIME, Director: Stephanie Johnes Producers: Andrea Meditch Julie Goldman, Discovery Docs, 2007. (partial)
2007 Best Documentary Award at Seattle International Film Festival
"CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY 30s", Director: Eric Gautschi, Client: Creighton University, Agency: Ervin & Smith, 2021.
"TEAM RUBICON", Director: Kief Davidson, Client: T-Mobile, 2017.
"LIVE SELECTS: MELROSE TRADING POST", Director: Mike Immerman, Client: Paypal, Agency: Haus, 2017.
"TOGETHER IN HEALTH", Director: Christoph Baaden, Client: Verite Health, Agency: Swanson Russell, 2017
"PRECISION", Director: Christoph Baaden, Client: UC-Irvine, 2017
"CARSTAR CAMPAIGN", Director: Carlos Naude, Client: Verizon / Sony, Agency: Ace Content, 2016
"SAVING SIGHT" TOYOTA EFFECT, Director: Kief Davidson, Client: Toyota, Agency: 360i, 2015 (shared credit)
"EARTH DEFENDERS CAMPAIGN", Director: Mark Landsman, Client: UC-Irvine, 2015
"AO IN BRAZIL" WORLD CUP SERIES, Director: Christoph Baaden / Eric Gautschi, Client: Degree Deodorant, Agency: The New BLK, 2014
"CELEBRATE UCI 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMENCEMENT FILM", Director: Kief Davidson, Client: UC-Irvine, 2014
"HEALERS AND HEROES", Director: Christoph Baaden, Client: UC-Irvine, 2014
"YOU MADE US WHOLE" 60s, Director: Lisa Hepner, Client: Expect Miracles, 2014
"MY CALLING" 60s, Director: Lisa Hepner, Client: Expect Miracles, 2014
UNBLENDED: MTV MUSIC AWARDS PROMO, DP: Vasco Nunes, Client: MTV, 2014 (operator)
CRITICAL PATH PROJECT, Director: David Grabias/Artifact, 2013
DISNEY INTERACTIVE 60s, Director: David Grabias / Artifact, Client: Disney Interactive, 2013
"SKIRBALL", Director: Joey Forsythe, Client: Skirball Cultural Center, 2013
“HEARTLAND" 60s, Director/DP: Guy Mossman, Client: Oregon Power Tools, Agency: Swanson Russell, 2013
“SIGHT UNSEEN", Director: Christoph Baaden, Client: UC-Irvine, Agency: The New BLK, 2012
“HUG" 30s, Director: Mike Bell, Client: Irvine BMW, Agency: INK, 2012
“SMILE" 30s, Director: Mike Bell, Client: Mercedes Benz of Long Beach, Agency: INK, 2012
“TAKES NERVE" 90s PSA, Director: Lisa Hepner, Client: UC-Irvine, Agency: The New BLK, 2012
“2ND CHANCE" 60s, Director/DP: Guy Mossman, Client: University of Southern California, Agency: Swanson Russell, 2012
“KNOWN FOR HEART" 60s TV Campaign, Director/DP: Guy Mossman, Client: BryanLGH, Agency: Swanson Russell, 2012, 2012 Silver Telly Awards
"DANIELA" 30s, Director/DP: Guy Mossman, Client: SAC Federal Credit Union, Agency: OBI Creative, 2011
"YOU HAVE A STORY" 30s, Director/DP: Guy Mossman, Client: SAC Federal Credit Union, Agency: OBI Creative, 2011
"INDIAN HILLS" 30s, Director/DP: Guy Mossman, Client: SAC Federal Credit Union, Agency: OBI Creative, 2011
"AMARILLO" 30s, Director: Eric Gautschi, Client: Proxibid, Agency: The New BLK, 2011
"ANYWHERE" 30s, Director: Eric Gautschi, Client: Proxibid, Agency: The New BLK, 2011
"FIGHT ON" 60s, Director: Lisa Hepner, Client: University of Southern California, Agency: Swanson Russell, 2010
"REVOLUTIONS", Director: Lisa Hepner, Client: Ely and Edythe Broad CIRM Center For Regenerative Medicine, Agency: Swanson Russell,2010
DOCTORS OF USC VIDEO SERIES, Director/DP: Guy Mossman, Client: University of Southern California 2008-2010, 2009 Silver Telly Awards, 2009 Healthcare Marketing Reports Silver Medal
"THERE IS NO B-TEAM" 60s, Director/DP: Guy Mossman, Client: Mercy Iowa City, Agency: Swanson Russell, 2008, 2009 Healthcare Marketing Reports Honorable Mention
"MORE THAN SAD:TEEN DEPRESSION", Directors: Ricki Stern Annie Sundberg, Client: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 2008 (partial)
Education:
MA Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. Roy H. Park Fellow
BA Fine Art, Colorado College, 1995. Cum Laude
Languages:
Spanish and GuaranÍ
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