DEEP-LIGHT

May 30th & 31st: Join Natasha Braier ASC @natashabraierasc virtually for the next chapter of her mentorship program. Over 1 intensive weekend and support directly from Natasha on-going after. This isn’t just a course, it’s a community. 🔗Link in bio to learn more and sign up! More than half the spots are already gone and it’s moving fast. Payment plans and scholarship are available! Our mentees will tell you - This is worth it. Sponsored by @panavisionofficial @aputure.lighting @pictureshop @luxartistsltd

Coming May 30th & 31st: the part of cinematography no one teaches. A mentorship for cinematographers stepping into their first features or navigating the years where everything starts to get real. How you get the job. How you prep, collaborate, and make decisions under pressure. How you lead a crew. How you hold your ground. How you protect your voice within constraints and on-set politics. Over one intensive weekend, you virtually shadow Natasha Braier ASC, ADF through the full arc of a project, then we break it down live, with space for the questions that are usually left out. Off the record. Unfiltered. Said as it is. The weekend is just the beginning. The connection and support continue year-round, with live Q&As and a private Discord group. We already opened this to the existing DEEP-LIGHT community first and half of the spots are already gone. Last year sold out in two weeks. If this resonates, check the program now & book your spot. Link in bio 🔗 or comment “mentorship” for a direct link sent to you

I created this mentorship because I remember how lonely and overwhelming the jump into bigger projects felt when I was starting. Not so much the technical side, but the human side. Walking into rooms where everyone expected me to have answers. Leading bigger crews for the first time. Navigating directors, producers, pressure, insecurity, politics, self doubt, imposter syndrome… while trying not to lose my own voice inside all of it. Nobody really talks openly about that part of the job, but honestly, it’s the biggest part of the job, and the hardest. Especially in those first years when things finally start opening up and you suddenly realize this career can also become emotionally brutal. I created this for the people arriving at that chapter now. The ones about to do their first features, or their first “real” jump. The ones feeling excited and terrified at the same time. This mentorship is meant to help you navigate that transition with more clarity, support, honesty, and less isolation than I had when I went through it. I only run it once a year with a small group of cinematographers. This year we begin May 30–31 with an intensive live online weekend, and there’s only a few spots left. Link in bio.

This Sunday, DEEP-LIGHT Cine Club begins with Malcolm X and a live conversation with cinematographer Ernest Dickerson ASC This isn’t a passive watch-along, you’re not sitting in the audience: you’re at the table. So bring your questions, your perspective, your curiosity, and join a real conversation about the craft, the choices, and the impact of a film that marked and era and became part of Autumn Durald Arkapaw’s cinematic DNA. The films that shape us deserve deeper conversations than a comment section. See you Sunday! Powered by @shotdeck @ernest_dickerson @addp #cine-club #malcomx

When I started DEEP-LIGHT, it came from feeling there was a huge gap between the technical side of cinematography education and the actual human experience of building a career and finding your voice inside this industry. I wanted to create the kind of space I wish had existed earlier in my own journey. With real conversations , community and mentorship. A place where cinematographers could talk openly about the parts of the work nobody really teaches and support each other. Watching this community grow so organically and so fast over the last year has been pretty emotional honestly. It makes me realize how many people were looking for the same thing. Really grateful to everyone who has joined us and helped build this into something much bigger than a mentorship program. Full article now up on Cinematography World. Link in bio.

This Sunday we launch the very first DEEP-LIGHT Cine Club. Inspired by one of Autumn Durald Arkapaw’s most influential films, we’ll be revisiting MALCOLM X with legendary cinematographer Ernest Dickerson in a live online conversation and open Q&A with the community. No stage. Just cinematographers sitting together talking process, images, stories, and craft. Pull up a chair and bring all your questions. Free and open to the public. Powered by ShotDeck, who will also be giving away a few subscriptions and prizes to attendees joining us live. Register through the link in bio. #malcolmx @shotdeck #cineclub #cine-club #through-their-eyes @ernest_dickerson

When people first join the mentorship, they often think the missing piece is technical. But after a certain point, most cinematographers realize the harder part is something else entirely. How to trust your instincts and stop second-guessing yourself. How to navigate pressure, politics, collaboration and expectation without losing your voice in the process. That transition from imitation into authorship is a big part of what this mentorship is really about. These images are from cinematographer Tristan Salas in the Philippines, one of the Natasha’s mentees in the program. Seeing people develop stronger confidence in their unique way of seeing, while making work that feels deeply personal to them, has become one of the most rewarding parts of building DEEP-LIGHT. This year’s live edition of the mentorship takes place May 30–31. We still have a some spots left, and you can apply for the LUX scholarship until May 16th. Payment plans available. Link in bio. @natashabraierasc @tristansalas @luxartistsltd #mentorship #yourwayofseeing

A little glimpse into the work behind the images from the fireside conversation with Boots Riley, Natasha Braier ASC and American Cinematographer at @petits_salons , talking about the process behind I LOVE BOOSTERS. Now we finally get to watch it together! On May 22nd, the DEEP-LIGHT community is coming out to support the theatrical release of I LOVE BOOSTERS. Come see the film with us at AMC Burbank and then join Natasha afterwards for drinks, hangs, and an informal Q&A at Barney’s Beanery in Burbank at 11PM. Tickets for the AMC Burbank screening are almost sold out, but you can also catch the film elsewhere and still come join us after for drinks. No panel and no stage. An informal hang with the deep-light fam and open to everyone who wants to join. @bootsriley @natashabraierasc @neonrated @blkbrdfilms @jamesaaronoliver @cheshiremoonproductions . @drinks_and_a_movie @iloveboostersmovie #ILoveBoosters #DeepLightCommunity #NatashaBraier #Cinematography

Happy Mothers Day to all the CameraMamas 🎥💕 We are giving away 1 FREE access to Natasha recorded mentorship program to a CameraMama. Post a photo of yourself to your stories on set with your kiddos or pregnant while filming (or you can nominate a deserving camera and post a photo of them on their behalf) and visibly TAG US in your story post so we see it! Tag a CameraMama you know in a comment below so they see this post! Update: She’s been found!! @cristina_dunlap . Sending you a T shirt mama!! BONUS: we are trying to find the CameraMama in the photo with their baby belly (and the dudes baby belly lol) in front of the grip truck. They posted this amazing photo on our discord under the handle CDDP. Help us find that CameraMama from that photo (4th slide) and we will send you and them a T-Shirt!! 👚

Deep-Light is launching our FREE open to the public Virtual Cine Club series sponsored by @shotdeck which focuses on the films that built some of our favorite DPs iconic style. These films are the top 10 defining movies for Oscar Winner Autumn Durald Arkapaw ASC in her own words. @addp For our first Virtual Cine Club event we kicking things off with discussing Malcolm X and we are honored to welcome the film’s DP, Ernest Dickerson ASC @ernest_dickerson to talk with Deep-Light and the audience the craft behind the lens for one of Autumn’s most influential films. He will be answering questions for you guys! Join us on Zoom for FREE this May 17th at 6:00 PM PST for a live conversation you won’t want to miss. 🔗 Link in the @deep.light.cine bio to sign up. We are also raffling off a FREE One-Year @shotdeck subscription during the session!! Tell your friends! CineClub is FREE and open to anyone! 🔗 Register for at the link in the @deep.light.cine bio See you May 17th with @ernest_dickerson 🎥✨

VENUE UPDATE: The after party will be held now at Barney’s Beanery Burbank after the screening show of I LOVE BOOSTERS. Only 2 seats remain for the 8:30pm screening Natasha will be at *BUT* you can go see any show, any where in the city and still come join us & Natasha to celebrate at Barney’s Beanery in Burbank. We should be arriving at 11pm at Barney’s. 🎟️ Tickets on sale now on the AMC app. Many screenings with seats at the AMC Burbank 16, 8 and AMC city walk, grove, Americana available!! Get dressed up in monochrome and come celebrate with Natasha!!

Scholarship opportunity for Natasha Braier ASC mentorship generously provided by our friends @luxartistsltd Applications for our next chapter of our mentorship due by 9pm PST May 16th 🔗 link in Bio to apply. The mentorship takes place Live with Natasha Online May 30th & 31st, so you can be anywhere in the world to participate! It doesn’t end with that one weekend. Being a mentee also gets you access to: • shadow opportunities with Natasha on set • ⁠exclusive community events only for mentees • ⁠ongoing free Q&As with Natasha to ask her your questions Its more than just lenses & lighting. @natashabraierasc walks you through how to develop your way of seeing. Apply now!